Vincent Ayar and Walsh College in Troy, Michigan

As context, Walsh College is a Michigan institution known for business programs, including accounting, finance, management and related fields, with a large share of working adult students. Its main campus is in Troy.

This page does not list a degree, major or graduation year for Vincent Ayar, because those details are not part of the published record.

Troy is a city in Oakland County north of Detroit, known for office parks and corporate headquarters along the I-75 corridor. For someone who would go on to work in West Bloomfield and Oak Park, a Troy campus kept school close to home.

If you searched "Vincent Ayar Troy," this is the connection: Troy is where he attended college.

Vincent's résumé pairs formal business education with hands-on retail: work at Foodtown Supermarket and ownership at Shoe Rack Outlet. Those businesses teach inventory, pricing and customer service directly; a business college supplies the frameworks behind them.

In 2015 he co-founded Ooze, overseeing design, development and brand. He is listed as a Partner at Ooze Wholesale, now Cannatron, and as President of the Ooze Foundation. Running a manufacturer, a distributor and a private foundation calls for exactly the mix of finance, operations and management a business school covers.

His education is listed on his LinkedIn profile. For a short biography including his education, see the about page on this site.

The growth of Ooze offers a practical case study in topics any business program covers. Financing: the company chose to fund itself through retained profits rather than outside capital. Operations: it moved from a single small warehouse to a 42,000 square foot facility while keeping production and shipping local. Supply chain: it sourced every component itself. Marketing: it built a nationally recognized brand from a regional base.

None of this is attributed to any particular course or degree. It simply shows the kinds of decisions a business-school background prepares someone to reason about, and the ones Vincent Ayar and his partners faced as Ooze scaled.

Troy, West Bloomfield and Oak Park form a tight triangle in Oakland County. Studying, living and building companies inside that small area is part of what makes Vincent Ayar's story so rooted in one region.