Jason Lucash is an American

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and

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who founded Origaudio.

Early life

Lucash is a native of

Danville, California The Town of DanvillePronounced is located in the San Ramon Valley in Contra Costa County, California, United States. It is one of the List of municipalities in California, incorporated municipalities in California that use "town" in their nam ...

and graduated from

San Ramon Valley High School San Ramon Valley High School is a four-year public high school located in the East Bay neighborhood of Danville, California, United States. It is a part of the San Ramon Valley Unified School District. It is a National Blue Ribbon school from t ...

before receiving his

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in Managerial Economics from the

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Davis, California, United States. It is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University ...

Career

Lucash gained his early work experience at

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and

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, the latter where he met his current business partner Mike Szymczak. Lucash traveled extensively for both employers and saw the need to create for an eco-friendly way to listen to music on the road. It was in his travels that the idea for OrigAudio came about. His first product called “Fold n’ Play”, are foldable speakers made from recycled materials and require zero external power, making the product

eco-friendly Environment friendly processes, or environmental-friendly processes (also referred to as eco-friendly, nature-friendly, and green), are sustainability and marketing terms referring to goods and services, laws, guidelines and policies that c ...

. These speakers landed Lucash a spot on

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's prestigious "Top 50 Inventions of 2009" list. Lucash was featured in the seventh episode of the second season of ABC's show ''

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'', where he received an investment from millionaire

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. In 2012 Lucash was named to the

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40 under 40 list for being one of the most innovative people in Orange County. This same year OrigAudio and Lucash again were featured on the first episode of the third season of ABC's show '

'' highlighting the exponential growth his company has had since first appearing on Shark Tank. Lucash was named

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's "Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year" for 2012. In 2013, Lucash was named "Young Alumnus of the Year" by his alma mater the

. Lucash currently is helping grow OrigAudio's business worldwide as they now have over seventy products under the brand name and are in process of rolling out more. Lucash also travels the globe speaking at conferences, universities, and corporate events. In September 2018, Origaudio was acquired by Hub Promotional Group based out of

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. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed and in addition to his current role at Origaudio, Lucash became Senior Vice President of Marketing and Product for HUB.

References

External links

Official OrigAudio web site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lucash, Jason Living people American inventors American businesspeople Year of birth missing (living people) University of California, Davis alumni