Victoria Adams is the founder of A-HA! Innovations, the brainchild of a project she undertook while pursuing her MBA. Her company seeks to create products for higher achievement in educational settings. Their core product, Engear, is an educational engagement device intended to be used to foster learning. Engear encourages student ownership of learning by visually revealing to students how active they are based on teacher input through a software application. Her company is still in the “seed” stage of development and in the process of waiting to develop a prototype. In the mean time, Victoria works on other startups and is pursuing her passion by participating in a professional development program for women in tech in Silicon Valley.  

Patrick Lauber holds a BA in Business Economics from the College of Wooster and an MBA from the Weatherhead School at Case Western Reserve. After beginning his professional career as a Corporate Accountant with Rubbermaid, Lauber has owned and operated several manufacturing businesses over the past thirty years. He is currently President of the Harrison Paint Company, a 108 year-old manufacturer of paint and coatings based in Canton. Lauber is active in and was a founding member of the Impact Angel Fund which invests in early-stage, Ohio-based technology companies. He and his wife Jen have two grown children and live in Ontario, Ohio.