 Lepa held various positions as a part of his professional career including senior account executive at Telvant in Calgary where he worked on projects in collaboration with Fortune 500 companies, Manager, SCADA and Automation at Koch Industries where his work spanned from feasibility to implementation of projects.He later served as the Director of Global Pipeline Solution Unit at ABB in Mannheim, Germany to work through the Chinese automation market before he moved to China in 2003 to start his career with a multinational corporation.Lepa learned that pearls from China sold much more expensive in the US when he sent a few strands back home and took the opportunity to venture into an eCommerce business of pearls with internet based sales internationally using Google AdWords and PayPal.