Eileen Lee

Co-Founder, The Lola

Atlanta

Eileen started her career as a management consultant at Accenture working with clients including Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pepsico, and Cargill. In 2011, she started Venture for America, a national nonprofit and fellowship program for recent grads to launch their careers as entrepreneurs. As COO over VFA's first 6 years, Eileen grew the company from 2 employees, 40 Fellows, 5 cities with a $200K budget to 35+ employees, 800+ Fellows, 18 cities and an $8MM budget.

Eileen is an operator and team, culture and community builder. She created and ran VFA’s 5-week training camp and mentor program along with other resources to support VFA’s Fellows. She launched the women’s and diversity initiatives now called VFA Rise and serves as an adviser to Rent the Runway Foundation’s Project Entrepreneur initiative to support high growth female-led startups.

Eileen is now co-founder of The Lola - a members club and community for women - creating space to help women invest in themselves, grow professionally and personally and drive change culturally. The Lola’s first location is opening in Old Fourth Ward (across Ponce City Market), Atlanta in early summer 2019.