Ohio Dominican University MBA Student Earns Edgar Ingram, Jr. Innovation Award

June 12 , 2006

COLUMBUS, OHIO – Ohio Dominican University recently granted the newly-created Edgar Ingram Jr. Innovation Award to Troy Miller, an MBA student from Pickerington, Ohio.

The Ingram Award is given annually to recognize an outstanding MBA student at Ohio Dominican who is participating in a capstone course called Business Policy and Strategy; a course in which students compete to build the most creative entrepreneurial business plan. A total of three awards, each worth $2,500, will be issued over the next three years. The winner will then advance to the Kiwanis Club New Business Builders MBA Competition.

The Edgar Ingram Jr. Innovation Award was established by Jamie Richardson and John Kelley of the White Castle Corporation in honor of Edgar Ingram, Jr., son of White Castle founder Edgar “Billy” Ingram, and grandfather of Jamie’s wife Kathleen and John. The award recognizes outstanding business students who have created a plan for a new business venture. Richardson and Kelley are both 2005 graduates of the Ohio Dominican University LEAD MBA program.

The Edgar Ingram Jr. Innovation Award was established by Jamie Richardson and John Kelley of the White Castle Corporation, in honor of Edgar Ingram, Jr., grandfather of Kelley and Richardson’s wife, Kathleen. Richardson and Kelley are both 2005 graduates of the Ohio Dominican University LEAD MBA program.

”We had been considering how best to honor our grandfather. After going through Ohio Dominican’s MBA program ourselves and having such a positive educational experience, we felt this was the perfect opportunity to give back to the program and to remember our grandfather,” said Kelley.