Andrea Lake is a high school graduate and business owner and a contestant on The Apprentice 5. She has made millions of dollars between her five companies. Lake is from San Diego, California. She attended Grossmont High School in El Cajon and now is a resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Although she is not a college graduate, she nonetheless managed to start her own businesses. Her first, Rhythm Styx, is a toy company and helped inspire her to start a clothing distribution company for teens. She now runs a sticker company, a t-shirt company, a clothing company, an online community linking authors with readers, and a wedding planning service. She has an older brother named Dave Lake. Apprentice candidate Lake was a candidate on The Apprentice 5. She was on Team Synergy and won the challenge both times she was project manager. Despite this, Andrea was fired on week 9 of the program, after what Trump viewed as a weak performance designing and selling a brochure for Ellis Island, as well as after hearing complaints from her teammates that she was difficult to work with. She came back on the last episode to assist Sean Yazbeck's team.
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