Who We Are

Business Team
All students at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business:
Brandy Alexander – Senior Accounting Major, Economics Minor
Kat Dickey – Senior Accounting Major, Spanish Minor
Nate Roberto – Senior Finance Major, Engineering Minor

Mayor Choluteca

Business Advisor
Dr. Judy Tansky is an Ohio State Alumni who has 20+ years of experience teaching entrepreneurship and humanitarian business at Ohio State. Her areas of expertise include managing people in small and entrepreneurial firms. Brandy and Nate have worked closely with Dr. Tansky through the Fisher Honors Contract Program focused on non-profit consulting.

Tansky

Engineering Team
Jeremy Shechter – Senior Agricultural Engineering Major
Jeff Thaler – Senior Agribusiness and Applied Economic Major, Engineering Minor
Liz Roche – Plant Pathology Major, Engineering Minor
Peter Boyer – Masters of Electrical Engineering, projected May 2014

These students have a wide array of experience related to engineering as well as agriculture. Jeremy has extensive prior experience with aquaponics over the last couple of years including pursuing his interest as a career path upon graduation. Jeff is very experienced in CAD design and Liz will focus on optimizing the grow bed yields. This experience enables the team to make sound design modifications in order to improve durability and cost effectiveness of the system.

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Overall Project Adviser

Dr. Howard Greene is advising primarily the engineering team but also serves as the overall team advisor. Howard holds his Master’s and PhD from Ohio State in Electrical engineering and was a project manager at Battelle for a few years as well as now working for The Ohio State University on collaborative programs. Howard has extensive travel experience to Honduras including a connection with Honduran missionaries, Larry and Angie Overholt, who have been serving in Choluteca for over 25 years.

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Management Team
Overseeing the high level operations of the business will be Larry and Angie Overholt of World Gospel Mission (WGM). They have established a positive network among potential customers from numerous rural villages surrounding Choluteca, Honduras as well as government officials in the area. The Overholts will give operational oversight to two of their local workers, Chacho and Hebert, who have over 20 years of experience with construction, procurement, and the local community. They will oversee the installation of each unit and will be the main points of contact for further purchases, supplies, and repairs. Moreover, WGM will be responsible for allocating the seed fund through to the village.

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  1. Hi, my name is Abby Corrigan, and I am a senior in high school at Upper Arlington. Each senior student at our school gets to chose a topic for a Capstone (or senior) project, and I decided to center my research around micro finance. I studied the Grameen bank in Bangladesh started by Muhammed Yunus and became inspired by the opportunities micro finance is able to create for people who are living below the poverty line.

    As part of our project, we create a ‘product’ or contribution to society using the knowledge we have gained about our topic. I found your video online through the APTE conference I was planing on attending, and am very interested in the work you are doing to bring aquaponics into Honduras through micro finance. I was wondering if there was anyway I could get involved in your project or if there was anything I could do as a high school student to participate in your work.

    Thanks
    Abby Corrigan

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