February 8, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — Two DePauw University graduates -- Jenny Vance '00 and Nichole Wilson '99 -- are among the Indianapolis Business Journal's "Forty Under 40" for 2011. "From hundreds of candidates, IBJ
has chosen 40 budding superstars who log more
than the typical share of e-mails, blog posts, Facebook 'Likes'
and late-night business calls," according to the paper. "We asked each
of these high-achievers to sit for video interviews and reveal their
goals, challenges
and how the prospect of 24-hour availability
has affected their lives, for better or worse." (at left: Jenny Vance; below left: Nichole Wilson)
"Jenny Vance started LeadJen in 2004 to provide sales leads and
prospecting support to business-to-business sales and marketing
executives," write Marc and Martha Allan. 
"Today, it's a
multimillion-dollar lead-generation services company serving more than
200 clients in the
United States, Europe and Australia," notes the IBJ summary, which states that Vance "honed her
entrepreneurial instincts at DePauw University."
"Our real focus as a business is helping
our clients get value out of every single prospecting call," says Vance, who was a Management Fellow at DePauw. "In many cases, we hope that’s an
appointment for our clients to go in and sell their solutions, but even
if
it's not, our mind-set is, ‘What can we
learn and share back with our clients’ that will help them understand
their market, their strategy in those
markets, and optimize our efforts with those clients?"
The publication adds, "LeadJen's service is catching on with the
high-technology industry it serves; in 2010, LeadJen tripled its
growth,
expanding from 20 employees to 60."
The profile of Nichole 
(Nicholson) Wilson, director of rehabilitation and sports medicine for
Community Health Network in Indianapolis, points out that "she is responsible for business
development,
growth and operation of 11 outpatient
clinics for physical-, occupational-, speech- and massage
therapy-services in the Indianapolis
metro area.
Her work involves frequent travel to the
north, east and south sides of town to visit the Rehab & Sports
Medicine Centers,
four or five of which have opened under
her watch ... Wilson came to work at Community Health Network in 2005 as a physical
therapist while working on her clinical doctorate from
the University of Indianapolis. She did
her undergraduate work at DePauw University, majoring in sports
medicine."
Wilson tells the Journal, "One of the reasons I got into physical
therapy is I like the ability to help people return to what makes them
happy. Even though I [no longer] work directly
with patients, I feel a lot of what I do is still for patients."
Read more here.
Also available are this October 2010 Indianapolis Star feature on Wilson and a 2007 article on Vance.