Andrea Wittchen
iSpring Principal
For thirty years, Andrea Wittchen has successfully pursued two parallel career paths—as an entrepreneur and business executive and as a professional musician. By applying her creative/artistic skills and her rational/analytic skills in a complementary manner, she has brought innovation and success to all of her endeavors. Andrea has been instrumental in the start-up of four companies – a real estate management firm, a consulting/software design firm, an engineering consulting firm and her current company, iSpring. Her responsibilities in each situation included infrastructure design and implementation, strategic planning, financial controls, administrative design and management, human resources and marketing. At the community level, Andrea led the development of the Lehigh Valley Sustainability Network and served as its first President. She speaks regularly on sustainability issues to organizations throughout the Lehigh Valley.
In recognition of her accomplishments and many contributions to Pennsylvania’s business community, she was honored in 2007 as one of the state’s Best 50 Women in Business. In November 2011, the Lehigh Valley Chapter of the Delaware Valley Green Building Council (now Green Building United) presented Andrea with its 2011 Sustainability Award for Individual Leadership for her work with the LV Sustainability Network.
Andrea holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Jacksonville University with high honors, a Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester and an M.B.A. from Lehigh University. She is well-known throughout eastern Pennsylvania as a professional harpist and has taught at Lehigh University in both the music and business departments. She holds a certificate in strategic management from the American Management Institute.
