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Joshua Jennings is a St. Louis entrepreneur who has founded 3 companies between the years of 2008-2011. Jennings has a unique skill set (including various advanced degrees in business, engineering and law) that has proved to be very handy with his start-up companies. He has been profiled numerous times in both the St. Louis Business Journal and the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

Early years
In 2001 Jennings earned his Undergraduates degree in Engineering at University of Illinois and two years later graduated with his MBA from University of Illinois. He served as Student Body President and was the only student on the University's Board of Trustees.

Upon receiving his two engineering degrees from U of I, Jennings attended Washington university in St. Louis where he earned his Juris Doctorate.

Cedarhurst Assisted Living
Jennings's first entrepreneurial project began in Fall of 2008 at the height of the financial crisis. Cedarhurst Assisted Living is a senior living brand which currently owns and operates two assisted living and memory care centers serving the Greater St. Louis Area. Cedarhurst is adding two more facilities late this year and during the Spring of 2012.

Groupigg
In 2010 Jennings's co-founded his second endeavor, Groupigg LLC, with Aaron Ellis. Groupigg is a white-label daily deals software provider whose name stems from two Internet terms: group + digg. Groupigg is part of the social commerce world, but positions itself the middleman in the daily deal industry. A turn-key approach to the group buying trend.

Dealpigg
To help the media publishers in the Groupigg family Dealpigg was designed in late 2011. Dealpigg is the first ever daily deal sourcing company to provide publishers a pipeline of ready-to-use national and local deals. Jennings and Ellis unveiled this company at the Daily Deals Media Conference held in October of 2011.