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Joel Paglione

Joel is a multifaceted industrial engineer, designer, author and successful entrepreneur responsible for multiple globally recognized brands as the Oak Bottle, Magnetie, LevitatingX, Space Shaker and Med-Eye Care. Joel specializes in what he calls the “bootstrap quick-to-market ground up product development approach” which he has deployed time and time again successfully the past 10 years with the incubation of many globally recognized consumer goods products such as tableware products the Oak Bottle, and the Levitating Cup among others in the medical and supplements industries. He says his proven track record to bring profitable products to market quickly and inexpensively is a culmination of perseverance, courage, intuition, and a whole lot of good timing. He spends his off time as a mentor at the mHUB Innovation Center in downtown Chicago where he loves to talk to young entrepreneurs in an authentic unvarnished boiled down way, about the simplified approaches that have worked for him so they too can learn how to navigate early stage product development companies.

Joel attended the University of Windsor Ontario Canada, graduating with a Bachelor of Science honors degree in Industrial Engineering. He went on to graduate with a Masters of Business Administration from the Odette School of Business in Canada. Besides his invention and product successes, Joel’s other accomplishments include his work iconic companies such as Navistar, Sears and Walgreens with their business transformations, global branding initiatives and product development. His passion and experience in solving real-world problems, whether big or small, is rooted in who he is and what he believes in.