April Lane is a senior lecturer of entrepreneurship at Loyola University's Quinlan School of Business and the Director of Entrepreneurial Initiatives. She teaches entrepreneurship, innovation, and strategy courses in the undergraduate, MBA, and executive MBA programs. Additionally, she is lead faculty for the Chicago cohort of the Dog Tag Inc Fellowship Program, where she teaches and advises veterans, military spouses, and caregivers on how to start new ventures.

She previously served as the Executive Director of Catapult Chicago, a collaborative co-working and incubator space for innovative, high-growth, venture-backed digital startups, which was acquired by 1871 in 2021.

At DePaul University, from which she holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship, she spent nearly seven years as the associate director of the Coleman Entrepreneurship Center, providing strategy consulting to students and startups from the community as well as teaching in their entrepreneurship program.

Before DePaul, she also had a marketing research and brand consulting career for Fortune 500 companies. April has also started a few businesses of her own, has sat on the boards of organizations, and regularly advises startups from the Chicago-land community.