Pam Trivisonno Named Mentor Chamber's Business Leader of the Year Award

Trivisonno talks about the importance of working with the next generation of entrepreneurs

Pam Trivisonno -- the Mentor Area Chamber of Commerce's first ever Business Leader of the Year -- was in the first Lake-Geauga Learning About Business class in 1980. In LAB, Trivisonno studied about real-world business practices as a junior at Mentor High School. Later, as an accounting major in her senior year at Bowling Green University, Trivisonno was in a 400-level business class when she had an epiphany. "I was sitting in class and I thought, 'Oh my god, I've already had this. This is the same thing as LAB,'" Trivisonno said. "What an opportunity to get that level of knowledge as a junior in high school," she said. "I decided, 'When I come back, I'm going to get involved with LAB.'" And she did. When she returned to Mentor and opened …

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