Wanda Shelley

Education

Wanda attended Howard University before transferring to Georgia State University, where she graduated with a degree in Marketing and Business Administration.

Career

She began her marketing and sales career at General Telephone and Electric in Irving, Texas, which introduced her to the concepts of advertising. After college Shelley began her marketing and sales career at AstraZeneca as a Pharmaceutical Specialist. In 2001, she was offered a position at PDI. Shelley entered into production as an executive producer/investor in the 2002 independent feature film The Book of Love, also directed by Jeff Byrd and starring Sallie Richardson, Robin Givins, Treach of Naughty by Nature, and Richard T. Jones of Judging Amy.

Shelley and producer Tracey Baker-Simmons established B2 Entertainment Studios Limited Liability Company, an Atlanta-based production.

She served as a Producer for Tyler Perry"s House of Payne Summer Promotional Campaign featuring Chrisette Michele. In 2009, B2 Entertainment Studios was renamed Simmons-Shelley Entertainment.

Shelley is the Executive Producer with Rhythm & Blues legend Keith Sweat, of reality series Platinum House featuring Dru Hill of Supervising producer of Welcome to Dreamland starring multi-platinum producers Drumma Boy and Jazze Pha which first aired as specials on Peachtree television, a Turner Broadcasting System station and slated for Summer "09 debut both on the Black Entertainment Television networks.

Achievements

• She is the co-founder of B2 Behind the Scenes, a non-profit organization that educates young men and women about careers available to them behind the camera. Most notably, B2 Entertainment Studios, are known for the popular culture reality classic, Being Bobby Brown starring Rhythm & Blues crooner and co-founder and member of popular boyband turned Rhythm & Blues Group New Edition, Bobby Brown and Rhythm & Blues/People’s legend Whitney Houston which aired in 2005 on the Bravo network.