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The Small Ohio Firm That Learned to Move Crowds
Werth PR has spent six decades proving that communications is less about making noise than arranging the right people around a stubborn problem - and giving them a reason to act.
Dean Wallace Built a Company for the Work Nobody Notices Until It Stops
He spent more than two decades scaling the unglamorous, essential work behind factories, utilities and waste systems - then made succession part of the operating plan.
Signet Jewelers
One Ohio company quietly owns Kay, Zales, Jared, Blue Nile and Banter - and rings up roughly one of every three engagement rings sold in America. Meet the $6.8 billion machine behind the moment you got down on one knee.
Scott Cahill
Scott Cahill is the co-founder and former CEO of LEXI, an intelligent enterprise IoT platform headquartered in Lebanon, Ohio. He built the company from a smart lighting passion project into a universal wireless building automation system that claims up to 90% cost savings over competitors. Over 7.5 years he led LEXI through a $2.6M seed round, a $3.5M pre-Series A, and multiple equity crowdfunding campaigns, accumulating $5.5M raised and a $30M valuation by 2024. In 2024 he handed the CEO role to Hans Bukow to accelerate LEXI toward IPO, while remaining as an advisor.
Robert Jones
Robert W. Jones is a Cincinnati-based venture investor who spent 30 years rising through General Electric - from GE Plastics to GE Capital to GE Aviation - before retiring as Senior Executive of Human Resources for GE Aviation's Global Engineering organization. In retirement, he founded Realm Capital Ventures, a family venture investment firm focused on global innovation, became a Limited Partner at Y Combinator and Kearny Jackson, and joined Queen City Angels as an Investor Member. He is also a community leader with board roles at the Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio, University of Cincinnati's Lindner College of Business, and more.