Lori co-founded OJC Technologies in 1998. Since then, the staff size has grown from 5 to 16 people, and annual gross revenue has increased forty-fold.

A Mechanical Engineering graduate from the University of Illinois, Lori brings the experience of working in corporate management to the entrepreneurial adventure of being the business mind behind a team of bright, bohemian artists and software engineers at OJC Technologies. She spent the first 10 years of her career in corporate America working for Andersen Consulting in Chicago for 4 years as a systems consultant before she was hired away by Caterpillar to head up a 20 person product development team and then moved on to join Solo Cup for 5 years as a Project Manager. Lori has managed projects as large as $4.5M and has been responsible for up to 75 staff at once. For the past 11 years Lori has been enmeshed in the entrepreneurial world, founding and growing three companies and providing business consulting to numerous startups and established organizations. She specializes in loosening the stuffy and grounding the chaotic and turning good ideas into extremely profitable, sustainable entities.