User:Jschimpf82/Jay Schimpf

Jay grew up in Pennsylvania as a farm boy, milking cows, forking manure, stacking hay, until the age of 14. He then went to study abroad to Australia for a little while for the People to People Student Ambassador Program. He came back to PA only to find that his family was moving to Colorado. He ended up in Evergreen, where he finished up junior high and high school. He worked all throughout high school, playing football, baseball, and ran cross country. He graduated in 2000 and started his college life at Metro State College in Denver. He transferred in 2001 to Colorado University, and in 2002 he took some time off of college to pursue different career paths and to find out who he was. He traveled a little and in 2006, came back to Colorado because of an ailing mother. He started working in the restaurant industry bartending and serving, and then founded his company Kiss Events LLC. In June of 2008, he was in a paralyzing motorcycle accident that hospitalized him for many months. He spent the next 6 months learning how to walk again. He enrolled back in school in 2008 at Colorado State University, and finished his degree in 2010 with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration and a certificate in Entrepreneurship. He graduated in the top 10% of his class. He now has been successfully running his business for a few years actively pursuing new business ventures and ideas