The Penn State Alumni Association recently honored Smeal College of Business alumna Erin Antosh ’06 Management with an Alumni Achievement Award, which recognizes Penn State graduates for extraordinary levels of professional achievement before the age of 35.
Antosh currently works as a manager at Integrated Business Consulting in Washington, D.C., but she is also in the early stages of launching a tech startup with a fellow Smeal alumnus. Antosh has already owned and operated four businesses and served as an independent consultant for various innovative startups and small businesses.
“I’ve always felt like innovation and entrepreneurship were what I was meant to do,” Antosh said, and she began pursuing that goal at a young age. When she was 8 years old, she ran her own lemonade stand at the neighborhood pool. At age 12, she started her own day camp for other children. In high school, she launched a charitable organization.
Of entrepreneurship, she said, “I’m comfortable with the risk involved. It feels really natural to me, like a step I should be taking.”
Antosh remains connected with Smeal through serving on the Alumni Society Board, a group of alumni and friends dedicated to connecting with each other and to the college.