Spotlight: Dan Shust of Resource/Ammirati

Dan Shust, CTO at Resource/Ammirati

Age: 49

Vitals: Bachelor of Arts in industrial design with a major in visual communication from Ohio State University.

Why this business: I love bringing creativity and technology together in unique ways to meet and surpass the needs of our clients.

Hometown: Mentor

Twitter handle:@getshust

First job: I started working at 13 at a bar called the Double J Saloon in Mentor. It was during the whole Urban Cowboy era. A friend of mine and I cleaned the bar on Saturday and Sunday mornings. It was eye opening.

Stress relievers: Amazon Prime.

Most admire in business: Our chairman and founder, Nancy Kramer. She never ceases to inspire and amaze me with the company she has built and the way she moves through life.

Best compliment anyone could give you:"Nice job" works for me.

Like about Central Ohio: The youth, the diversity and the restaurants.

Person you'd most like to meet, living or dead: Steve Jobs.

Most interesting place you've traveled and why: When I was young, my family was into traveling around the country and searching for gems, fossils and other semi-precious stones. I've been deep in emerald mines in North Carolina, dug for opal in the Grand Tetons and hunted fossils all over the U.S.

Favorite drink: Gin (Plymouth) and tonic (Fever Tree) with a lime wedge.

Sports team: The Buckeyes, of course.

Dream car: Porsche 911. I owned a '74 when the kids were young. Sold it because I never got a chance to drive it. Wish I had it back.

Personal heroes: My mother. She lost her fight with Parkinson's disease earlier this year. She was the strongest and bravest person I'll ever know.

Laura Newpoff co-directs daily online coverage for Columbus Business First.