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Monte Christopher has exciting news! Welcome Shelby Wise, our new Director of Curriculum Development, & Eric Wise, our VP of Curriculum & Instruction, to the Cyanna family! Shelby brings her data-driven approach from mechanical engineering to craft technical courseware, while Eric, a tech enthusiast and Ohio's first coding bootcamp founder, simplifies complex concepts for everyone. Outside of work, they love traveling, running Dungeons and Dragons campaigns, and indulging in all forms of pasta with their three corgis. Welcome to the Cyanna team!

Wrapping up another year of growth, achievements, and memorable moments, the Monte Christopher team wishes our dedicated staff, valued clients, and supportive Licking County community a year filled with fantastic opportunities. Cheers to 2024!

For three years, Scholar House Media has been turning clicks into customers and keywords into conversions. The Scholar House team has created a strong digital presence for many businesses including the Monte Christopher family of companies. Here’s to another year of digital marketing success stories!

As we successfully close out the final stretch of the summer MCH intern program, we celebrate nine weeks of hard work, connection, and FUN! Serving three Monte Christopher companies: Scholar House Media, EDvera, and Cyanna Education Services - the combined effort of these smart minds made a real impact. They contributed to product management, tech investment, client research analysis, and more. This group was also the first to utilize 222 Social, the new MCH workspace in Granville -- where the vibe is one of community, collaboration, productivity, & inspiration. These young people showed up regularly with their energy and fresh spirit. They excelled by being open, willing, hard working, and awesome as they adopted the Monte Christopher mission of spurring growth through education & technology.

Calling all software developers in Central Ohio! TUBLIAN is partnering with Cyanna Education Services to organize a one-day AI HACKATHON for software developers. The mission is to use ChatGPT & prompt engineering to build & deploy an innovative application in just ONE day! Let's get together to learn and explore the world of AI and Copilots. Register here!

MCH and Scholar House Media are proud to support the Licking County Chamber of Commerce Thrive Small Business Conference taking place on June 16, 2023 at the Reese Center. Our team helped put together a fantastic lineup of speakers, panelists, and breakout sessions that cover the topics that matter to small business owners. From communications planning to organizational wellness, the conference will include topics that make the most sense for participants. There will also be a panel discussion and plenty of time to network with other local business owners and leaders in Central Ohio. We are looking forward to this event! Please join us and register here!

Cyanna Education Services welcomes Jeremy Snepar as our new President and COO! Jeremy is an accomplished entrepreneur and CEO with a proven track record in building, scaling and improving schools and educational institutions, as well as strategy, business development and consulting across private and public companies in education, media and technology.

It all started with translating paper into software. Our very own, Chris Eckels, shares his entrepreneurial journey to creating Cyanna Education Services, EDvera, and co-founding Monte Christopher Holdings. Tune in to the Conquering Columbus, LLC. podcast and learn more about Chris and how his educational firm supports institutions of higher education, career schools and corporations. Listen to the podcast here to hear the story of Cyanna.

From the entire Monte Christopher team and our families, we want to wish you a most wonderful holiday season and a happy new year! We are excited for 2023, a new year of working with all our clients and partners across the globe.

Monte Christopher is proud to announce our co-founder Chris Eckels was inducted into the Association of Ohio Commodores on Friday, December 9, 2022. The Association of Ohio Commodores inducted 23 people from around Ohio during the Annual Winter Meeting at the Marriott Columbus OSU in Columbus. Read more in the full press release below.
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Todd Londot and I, through our real estate arm, Monte Christopher Real Estate, LLC, are thrilled and honored to have the opportunity to work with Newark Development Partners, Historic Hudson District and the City of Newark through the purchase of the church on Hudson.
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Monte Christopher Holdings was a proud sponsor & attendee at the Recreation Unlimited Muirfield Invitational, the best 2-day golf charity tournament in Central ohio. Recreation Unlimited board member & MCH Co-founder Chris Eckels & his team played a round of 18-holes to support the nonprofit, where they unveiled the new 2022 promotional video from Scholar House Media.

Congratulations to our co-founder, Todd Londot, who was recently named one of three new board members for the Licking County Chamber of Commerce. Todd joins Trae Brooks, MBA of The Boeing Company, and Joseph Gebhart of Shai-Hess Commercial Real Estate as new members. Todd is excited about the opportunity to further the mission of the LCCC for its members and constituents.

Monte Christopher Holdings is proud to have sponsored & attended Jeff Hall's 2022 Mayor's Breakfast, Honoring Licking County's Eagle Scouts. We were happy to celebrate the exceptional achievements of these dedicated young men and women. We know they will go on to do great things!

Origami Made is now Origami Interactive! Check out their new website at origamiinteractive.com to view new case studies of work, learn more about the team, and all about their range of client services in custom software development, XR, and team augmentation.

Monte Christopher Co-founder Chris Eckels spoke as part of a business panel at the LCCC’s 66th annual GroundHog Breakfast event. The live-stream video of the entire event is available on the LCCC’s YouTube channel, and additional coverage can be found at the Newark Advocate’s website.

Alongside our co-founders Chris Eckels and Todd Londot, our staff and their families were blessed to be able to spend time together in December at Buckeye Lake Winery, celebrating the holiday season as a team of companies and a community of families.

Monte Christopher Holdings, LLC, locally-based family of companies with global reach, is publicly and formally announcing its presence as the parent of a family of Central Ohio companies as well as the launch of a new website, montechristopher.com.
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