A graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and
the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, Jay LaBarge
spent his professional career growing companies in the networking,
telecommunication, and consumer electronics industries. A businessman
by profession but historian by passion, he and his wife Sandy raised their
daughters Ashley and Kara in the Central New York area, with frequent
trips to his childhood home in the Adirondack Mountains.

He continues to pursue his love of history and travel with his wife to out of
the way places both domestic and abroad. His lifetime of curiosity and
wanderlust ultimately led to the creation of Aztec Odyssey.