WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - Key Persons
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- Senior VP, CFO, Treasurer and Secretary / Hoffmaster Group, Inc
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- Member of the Weinert Advisory Board
- Founder & past Chairman / Noodles and Company
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- Professional Development for Arts Leadership Class Instructor Bolz Center Applied Learning Activities Facilitator
For the past 30 years Aaron has been working professionally as an actor, director, choreographer, writer, and for the past 17 years the Artistic Director at the Marriott Theatre in Chicago IL. The Marriott Theatre is a for-profit theater company that focuses on producing, creating, and developing new musicals. During his time at Marriott, he wrote multiple award-winning musicals including the book for October Sky the musical which premiered October '21 in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, the book for the Jeff Award-winning HERO the musical, the stage adaptation of For The Boys, for 20th Century Fox, and was tasked by Andrew Llyod Webber to develop a new musical review of his work titled Now And Forever. Some of his directing credits include Spring Awakening (Chicago and International), Darling Grenadine, She Loves Me, Oklahoma! Spelling Bee…(International), the 30th anniversary concert of HAIR! in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Aaron earned his Master of Arts-Business: Arts and Creative Enterprise Leadership degree from The University of Wisconsin-Madison Bolz Center for Arts Administration in 2023. He is a Board member of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre based in NYC. In 2018 he was asked by the US State Department to develop an arts educational outreach program in Bosnia and Herzegovina. That experience led to the creation of Broadway Across Borders, a not-for-profit arts organization that builds international and cross-cultural collaborations through musical theatre performance that create a shared understanding of humanity by cultivating and connecting emerging artists across borders and empowering their artistic and social entrepreneurship.
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- Member of the Wisconsin Business Alumni Board
- Senior Vice President, Head of Enterprise Strategic Planning, Corporate Strategy / Wells Fargo
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Senior Managing Director / Evercore
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- Head of Chemicals Investment Bank / RBC Capital
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- Member of the Executive Advisory Board
- President and Chief Problem Solver / Abaxent, LLC
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- Co - Founder and Partner / GDS Development Management LLC
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- Member of the Wisconsin Business Alumni Board
- Vice President, Real Estate Development
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- Senior Vice President / Colliers International
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- Member of the Wisconsin Business Alumni Board
- Senior Manager, Americas Partner Digital Business Development / HP Inc.
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- Member of the Wisconsin Business Alumni Board
- Owner, Master Chocolatier / Valenza Chocolatier, Inc.
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- President and General Counsel / E.J. Plesko & Associates, Inc.
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- Member of the Hawk Leadership Board
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- Member of the Weinert Advisory Board
- Managing Director & Operating Partner / Svoboda Capital Partners
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- Member of the Emeritus Board
- Senior Vice President / Siemens
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- Professional Development for Arts Leadership Class Instructor Impact Consulting Class Co - Instructor
Angela Richardson, MFA, is a performer, visual artist, and educator. In addition to maintaining her own interdisciplinary practice, she works for the Wisconsin School of Business to help students and faculty understand the relationship of creative thinking to innovation in business. Richardson coordinates arts-based learning activities for the School and provides curricular consult, instructional delivery, and student advising. For the WSB Learning Commons renovation project, she led Artful Engagement design efforts to curate the space.
Richardson works closely with Division of the Arts colleagues to produce the annual Arts Business Competition. She also mentors students in the UW's Kohler Fellows Program and serves on the Campus Arts Advisory Committee.
As a teaching artist, she's led classes at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Center for Healthy Minds, Madison Children's Museum, Madison Public Library, and for many other local organizations. In 2020, she was named a Morgridge Fellow and took part in the Morgridge Center for Public Service's community-engaged scholarship (CES) program at UW.
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- Member of the Emeritus Board
- Principal / Ann M. Schwister Associates, LLC, Former Vice President and North America CFO - Procter & Gamble
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- Member of the Wisconsin Business Alumni Board
- Masters of Business Administration Student / Wharton ( University of Pennsylvania )
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- Finance
- Member of the Academic Program Committee
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- Director, Strategic Relations / Leopardo Companies, Inc.
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- President / Bridge Development Partners, LLC
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- Knowledge Center Director
- Chairman in Marketing Research and Education
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- Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer / Equus Capital Partners, Ltd.
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- President / Arun Bhatia Development Organization
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- Head of Middle Market Credit
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- Chairman and CEO / Mandel Group
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- Consultant
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- Area Operations Manager
- Member of the Alumni Advisory Board
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- Director / Information Technology
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- Director of Alumni Relations
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- Assistant Director / Grainger Center for Supply Chain Management
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- Operations and Information Management
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Chairman / O'Melveny & Myers LLP
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- Executive Director of Investor Relations / Brennan Investment Group, LLC
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- President - Retired / Atlantic Partners Corporation
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- Managing Principal / Blue Vista Capital Management, LLC
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- Member of the Wisconsin Business Alumni Board
- Product Group Lead, Business Transformation / TD Bank
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Exec VP
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- Executive Managing Director
- Member of the External Advisory Board
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- Executive Vice President / Magellan Development Company
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- Member of the Executive Advisory Board
- Area VP, Sales / Consulting Industry / Komodo Health, Inc.
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- Member of the Hawk Leadership Board
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- Senior Managing Director, Head of the Special Situations Group
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- Associate Dean of the Undergraduate Program
- Executive Director of the Arthur Andersen Center for Financial Reporting and Control, Asso
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- Member of the WAVE Advisory Board
- Principal
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- Member of the Alumni Advisory Board
- Strategy Consultant
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- Member of the Emeritus Board
- Alumni Research Foundation
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- Member of the Executive Advisory Board
- Vice President Global Strategic Sourcing and Environmental, Health & Safety, Retired / Illinois Tool Works, Inc.
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- Managing Director
- Member of the External Advisory Board
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- Member of the Alumni Advisory Board
- Partnerships Lead
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- Vice President of the Emeritus Board
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- Member of the WAVE Advisory Board
- Founder and President / SunPeak, LLC
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- President & Founder / Washington Property Company
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- EVP / Sr. Managing Director
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- Office of the Trust Funds - University of Wisconsin System
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- Founder and Principal Emeritus / Horizon Development Group, Inc.
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- Member of the Academic Policy Committee
- Academic Director, Strategic Human Resource Management Center
- Department Chair, Management and Human Resources Pyle - Bascom Professor in Business Leadership / Management and Human Resources
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- Member of the Alumni Advisory Board
- Senior Financial Analyst / Intel Corporation
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- Chief Human Resources Officer - WSB / Human Resources & Payroll
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- Co - Founder
- Member of the External Advisory Board
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- Member of the Wisconsin Business Alumni Board
- Head of Payments Platform
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- Member of the Executive Advisory Board
- Managing Director / Deloitte
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- Member of the Wisconsin Business Alumni Board
- Principal
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- Director / Wisconsin Real Estate Alumni Association, Inc.
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- Member of the Executive Advisory Board
- President and CEO / Temperature Systems, Inc.
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- Chairman
- Former CEO
- Founder
- Member of the Weinert Advisory Board
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- Member of the WAVE Advisory Board
- Founder and CEO / Primorigen Biosciences Inc.
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- Senior Director, Global Logistics Operations - Retired
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- Member of the Alumni Advisory Board
- Manager - Logistics Solutions & Continuous Improvement / Kohler Co.
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Partner and Managing Director / TSG Consumer Partners
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- CEO
- Member of the WAVE Advisory Board
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- CFO & Chief Growth Officer / Audible, Inc
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Chief Executive Officer / Ovative Group
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Chief Financial Officer / Treasurer / American Family Insurance
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- Vice President / First Weber, Inc.
Dan McCoy - Founder, President
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- Goldberg Family Director, Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship / Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship
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- Nakoma Capital Management / ASAP 1987
Dan Reed - Managing Director
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- Managing Director
- Member of the WAVE Advisory Board
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- President and Chief Operating Officer / Continental Properties Company, Inc.
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- Executive Vice President, Capital Markets / Ryan Companies
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- Producing Artistic Director
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Partner / Banneker Partners
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- Founder
- Member of the WAVE Advisory Board
- President
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- Founder / North Central Group
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- Chief Strategy Officer
- Member of the External Advisory Board
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- Managing Director / Ankura Consulting Group
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- Managing Member / Legacy Varin Property Management, LLC
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- President / Stark Company
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- Managing Director / Colliers Securities
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- Member of the Weinert Advisory Board
- Partner / Foley & Lardner, LLP
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- Leadership Consultant & Instructor
David ‘dstew' Stewart is a nationally renowned arts leader, theatre professional, and educator. Owner of Production on Deck, he leads a production search and consulting firm that strives to increase diversity and inclusion by expanding the talent pipeline and increasing pathways for marginalized communities to access jobs in theatrical production. A Board Member for USITT, United States Institute for Theater Technology, dstew is Chair for the People of Color Network and co-founder of the Gateway Program, a mentorship opportunity for students from underrepresented populations within the industry.
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- Partner / Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
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- Dean
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- Events
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- Managing Partner
- Member of the Executive Advisory Board
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- Senior Advisor, Star Mountain Capital / President, 3M Investment Management Corporation Retired in 2021
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- Chief Executive Officer / Chenco Holdings Company, LLC
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- President and CEO / YMCA
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- Founder
- Member of the External Advisory Board
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- Member of the Emeritus Board
- the Massachusetts Institue of Technology / View Profile
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- Member of the Hawk Leadership Board
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- President & CEO / East Lake
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- Member of the Wisconsin Business Alumni Board
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- Member of the Hawk Leadership Board
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- President & CEO / East Lake
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- Member of the Wisconsin Business Alumni Board
- Chief Executive Officer / Phoenix International Freight Services, Inc.
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- Member of the Academic Advisory Board
- Associate Dean of the MBA and Masters Programs
- Executive Director / Operations and Information Management
- Procter & Gamble Bascom Professor / Wisconsin School of Business / View Profile
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- Member of the Emeritus Board
- Director, Equity Research / Buckingham Research Group
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- Member of the Executive Advisory Board
- SVP Global Operations & Chief Supply Chain Officer / Ingredion Incorporated
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- Member of the Executive Advisory Board
- Senior Operations Analyst
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- Member of the Executive Advisory Board
- Senior Product Manger, Alexa Together / Amazon
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- President of the Weinert Advisory Board
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- General Counsel and Finance Lead
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Leadership Advisory Consultant
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- Member of the Alumni Advisory Board
- Global Supply Chain Manager
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- Member of the Wisconsin Business Alumni Board
- Partner / McKinsey & Company
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- Principal and Founder / PMC Management Group
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- Senior Vice President Finance, International Development, and Investor Relations / Toll Brothers, Inc.
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- Lecturer
- President & CEO / Gorman & Company
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- Managing Director / Antares
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- Assistant Director / Graaskamp Center for Real Estate
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- Member of the Hawk Leadership Board
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- Executive Vice President - Office Leasing & Co - Head of Real Estate / Vornado Realty Trust
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- Partner / Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, LLP
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- Member of the Executive Advisory Board
- SVP and GM, HP Renew / HP Development Company, LP
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- Academic Director Operations and Information Management
- Grainger Professor in Supply Chain Management
- Operations and Information Management
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- Professor - Music / Arts Administration
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- Associate Director of Recruiting and Career Services
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- Software Publishing Corporation / View Profile
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- Communications Specialist
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- Member of the Hawk Leadership Board
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- Managing Partner
- Member of the WAVE Advisory Board
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- Executive Director of Finance / Johnson Controls
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- Analyst
- Member of the Alumni Advisory Board
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- Member of the Weinert Advisory Board
- President / Javelin Partners, LLC
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- Director / Grainger Center for Supply Chain Management
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- Partner - Portolio Manager
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- Co - Founder and CEO, Team Rubicon
Would you head straight into a disaster zone? Jake parlayed his Marine Corps experience into a global nonprofit that sends military veterans and volunteer civilians to do just that.
His work earned him the 2018 ESPY Awards' Pat Tillman Award for Courage and he was named a CNN Hero.
In 2008, thanks to joint funding from the Wisconsin Real Estate Alumni Association and Counselors of Real Estate, the Digital James A. Graaskamp Landmark Research Collection was completed.
The collection contains over 165 of Landmark Research's consulting reports completed between the late 1960s to the early 1990s. There are appraisals, market and feasibility studies, as well as other types of research and analysis.
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- Member of the Executive Advisory Board
- Vice President of Customer and Community Engagement / Alliant Energy Corp.
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- Member of the Alumni Advisory Board
- Associate Category Manager - Global Oils & Fats / General Mills, Inc.
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- CEO / Logistics Property Co., LLC
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- Member of the Academic Advisory Board
- Professor of Business / Wisconsin School of Business
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- Managing Principal / WHI Real Estate Partners
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- Retired - Chairman / Emeritus / First Weber, Inc.
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- Member of the WAVE Advisory Board
- Member of the Wisconsin Business Alumni Board
- Board Member News
- President / Chem - Impex International, Inc.
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- Allspring Global Investments / ASAP 1994 / Milwaukee, WI
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- Member of the Executive Advisory Board
- Product Management Executive
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- Member of the Wisconsin Business Alumni Board
- President & CEO / Moss
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- Founder and Managing Partner / the Shidler Group
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- CEO
- Founder
- Member of the External Advisory Board
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- Head of Public Real Assets and Portfolio Manager
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- Founder
- Member of the WAVE Advisory Board
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- Distinguished Chair in Finance
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- Director of Midwest / Southeast Region Commercial Mortgage Investments
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- Associate
- Member of the Wisconsin Business Alumni Board
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Managing Partner / Bascom Group
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- Member of the Academic Advisory Board
- Professor of Computer Science / University of Wisconsin - Madison
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- President and Chief Executive Officer / Zilber Ltd.
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- Principal / Haft Holdings, Inc.
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- Deputy Chair
- Finance
- Member of the Academic Program Committee
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- Group Manager
- Managing Director
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- President, Content Distribution
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- Chief Growth Officer
- Member of the Executive Advisory Board
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- Member of the Academic Policy Committee
- Associate Dean of Teaching Innovation and Assessment
- Marketing Irwin Maier Professor
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- Department Outreach Specialist
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- Member of the WAVE Advisory Board
- Founding Shareholder
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- Finance Director / Amazon
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- Venture Investor
- Chief of Staff and Vice President, Strategy / UnitedHealthcare
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- Venture Investor
- Senior Project Controller
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Exec VP Corporate Development
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- Member of the Hawk Leadership Board
- Camber Capital Management / ASAP 2019
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- Chief Investment Officer and Co - Founder / First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc.
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- President / Freeflow Ltd.
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- Member of the WAVE Advisory Board
- Founder and Managing Member / Birch Avenue Investments, LLC
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- Vice President of Investor Relations / Target Corporation
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- Operating Partner / JC Flowers & Co LLC
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- Senior Vice President - Portfolio Management / EverWest Real Estate Partners, LLC
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- Managing Partner / Hubbard Street Group
John Neis - Managing Director
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- Managing Director
- Member of the WAVE Advisory Board
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- Premisist
- Real Estate CAPITAL Investors / View Profile
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Chief Executive Officer / Deloitte
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- Member of the Academic Policy Committee
- Chairman in Marketing
- Emeritus Professor in Marketing
Jack Nevin, emeritus professor in marketing, was integral in the creation of the center and served as its first faculty director. In 2014, Scott and Signe created the John R. Nevin Chair in Marketing to honor his contributions. The Nevin Chair has been held by Page Moreau since 2014.
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- Director of the Initiative for Studies
- Faculty Associate Director of INSITE
John Surdyk is the Director of the Initiative for Studies in Transformational Entrepreneurship that encourages entrepreneurship research, curriculum development, and programming at UW-Madison. He leads the StartUp Learning Community, and he supports several competitions that foster creativity, social innovation, and entrepreneurial action, including the Arts Business Competition, the 100 Hour Challenge, and the Clinton Foundation Global Initiative.
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- Founder & Managing Partner / Hammes Company
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- Member of the Executive Advisory Board
- Chief Product, Design & Data Officer / Intuit
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- Executive Director / Center for Professional & Executive Development
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- Executive Director, Real Estate Banking
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- Associate Professor
- Member of the Academic Advisory Board
- Professor
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- Chief Financial Officer - WSB / Financial Management Office
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- Operations and Information Management
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- Portfolio Manager
- Vice President
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- President & Co - Founder / DSF Group
Julian Moncada (BBA '12) Throughout Julian's career in finance and venture capital, he has found his ability to think creatively to be just as valuable as his business skills.
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- CFO / Terex Corporation
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- Member of the Executive Advisory Board
- VP, Global Account Based Marketing Strategy
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- Principal / Walton Street Capital, LLC
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- Associate Dean of Doctoral Programs and Research
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- Academic Department Coordinator
- Center and Department Assistant / Operations and Information Management
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- Member of the Wisconsin Business Alumni Board
- Manager, Client Services / Ovative Group
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- Member of the WAVE Advisory Board
- Founder / Principal / Plantes Company
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- Chief Advancement Officer
- Operations
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- Member of the Wisconsin Business Alumni Board
- Senior Director / SAP America, Inc.
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- Managing Director and Senior Market Strategist / Security Capital Research & Management, Inc.
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- Chief Investment Officer / Douglas Emmett, Inc.
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- Co - Founder and Managing Principal / Brennan Investment Group
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- Co - Founder
- Member of the Executive Advisory Board
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- Member of the Hawk Leadership Board
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- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Executive Advisory Board
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- Member of the WAVE Advisory Board
- Senior Director, Experiences & Devices Strategy / Microsoft
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- Director, Professional Programs in Accounting
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- Corporate Controller
- Executive Director
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Global Vice President / the Honest Company
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- Academic Department Coordinator
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- Member of the Hawk Leadership Board
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- Director of Product Marketing, Fundraising and CRM Solutions / Blackbaud, Inc
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- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the WAVE Advisory Board
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- Member of the Alumni Advisory Board
- Tissue Supply Planner / Abbott
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- Assistant Director of Education and Outreach / Graaskamp Center for Real Estate
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- Associate Director / Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship
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- Member of the Alumni Advisory Board
- Senior Supply Chain Manager / Raytheon
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- President / Madison Development Corporation
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- Member of the Wisconsin Business Alumni Board
- Head of Strategic Planning
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- Member of the Hawk Leadership Board
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- Chief Marketing Officer
- Member of the External Advisory Board
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- Member of the Alumni Advisory Board
- Supply Planner - Senior Analyst
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- Leadership Development Specialist, Leadership Certificate Program, UW Center for Leadership & Involvement
Mao grew up in Appleton, WI and attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Upon graduation, she fulfilled her lifelong goal of becoming a teacher. In addition to her primary job functions, Mao managed the school garden, creatively extending her students' learning outside of the classroom. After much consideration, Mao decided to pursue more schooling at the University of Toronto. During her time there, she worked with the Ministry of Education, revising the curriculum to reflect more Indigenous ways of learning and helping break barriers in the educational system. After graduation, she joined the Center for Leadership & Involvement and looks forward to supporting students in the Leadership Certificate Program and hearing about their unique journeys.
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- Chief Executive Officer and Manager / Irgens Partners, LLC
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- Director and Faculty Associate
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- Member of the WAVE Advisory Board
- Managing Member / Meester Capital, LLC
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- President / CEO / Hennepin Theatre Trust
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- Faculty Director, INSITE & Professor / Management and Human Resources
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- President & CEO, EnPro Industries, Inc.
The CEO of the future needs to be people-focused, in the moment, and operating authentically. Successful leaders are those who show kindness and respect and, among other things, turn off their phones to tune in to what's happening around them.
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- Member of the Hawk Leadership Board
- Retired
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- Member of the Alumni Advisory Board
- Principal Category Manager / Microsoft
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- Member of the Wisconsin Business Alumni Board
- Managing Director / Golub Capital
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- Member of the Executive Advisory Board
- VP, Strategy / Business Operations - Device & Services
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- Vice Chairman, National Leasing
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- Member of the Executive Advisory Board
- Product and Operations Executive
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- Member of the WAVE Advisory Board
- Member of the Wisconsin Business Alumni Board
- Founder & CEO / Lisa Harris & Company
- Product Marketing Manager / Microsoft
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- Member of the WAVE Advisory Board
- Partner / Co - Chair
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- Member of the Wisconsin Business Alumni Board
- Senior Managing Director
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- Managing Partner / Cross Lake Partners
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- Irgens Executive Director
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- Managing Principal, Retired / TOLD Development Company
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- Chief Financial Officer
- Member of the Emeritus Board
- Distinguished Chair in
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- EVP, Research & Investment Affairs
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- President and Founder / Corum Real Estate Group
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- KSL Capital Partners, LLC / View Profile
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- CEO
- Member of the Weinert Advisory Board
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- President and Chief Executive Officer / Wisconsin Realtors Association
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- Member of the Alumni Advisory Board
- Global Procurement Agent - Engineered Polymers
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- Managing Director / Cushman & Wakefield
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- Academic Department Specialist
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- Member of the Wisconsin Business Alumni Board
- Director - Global Services Marketing
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Head of Health Plan Strategy & Sales
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- Chief Financial Officer
- Member of the External Advisory Board
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- President of the WAVE Advisory Board
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- Chief Executive Officer
- President
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- Member of the Hawk Leadership Board
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- Business Advisor
- Member of the Emeritus Board
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- Member of the Executive Advisory Board
- Vice President of Client Services
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- Member of the Wisconsin Business Alumni Board
- Account Manager / Wixon, Inc.
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- Knowledge Center Director
- Academic Director
- Marketing Leadership Institute
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- Member of the Hawk Leadership Board
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- Member of the WAVE Advisory Board
- Founder and CEO / Cascade Asset Management, LLC
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- Member of the Weinert Advisory Board
- Chairman / Acsis, Inc.
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- Department Chair
- Department Chair / Operations and Information Management
- Operations and Information Management
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- Managing Director / Pacific Life Insurance Company
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- Member of the Wisconsin Business Alumni Board
- Accounting & Reporting Advisory Manager / Deloitte
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
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- Finance
- Member of the Academic Program Committee
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- Member of the Academic Policy Committee
- Chairman in Marketing
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- Member of the Executive Advisory Board
- VP, Business Operations
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- Managing Director / Hammes Holdings, LLC
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- Chief Operating Officer
- Executive Vice President
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- Associate Director, MS in Real Estat
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- CEO
- Member of the WAVE Advisory Board
- President
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- Member of the Emeritus Board
- Senior Director, Corp. Financial Planning / Procter & Gamble
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- Distinguished Lecturer / Operations and Information Management
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- Member of the Emeritus Board
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- Managing Director / Adage Capital Management, L.P.
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- Member of the Academic Advisory Board
- Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering / University of Wisconsin - Madison
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- Senior Director, Industrial Asset Management
For almost two decades, Rebecca Buckman has secured the Bolz Center for Arts Administration's reputation as the premier graduate program for arts business in the world. As Associate Director, Rebecca's primary focus is on student success in the program and positive career journeys for all alumni. Rebecca annually manages recruitment and admissions, Applied Learning Placement partnerships with arts and cultural organizations, and academic and career advising. She also helps to share the story of the Bolz Center through social media and digital communications, and stays closely connected to donors and friends of the Center through her stewardship. In 2018, Rebecca produced the Bolz Center Collegium, which celebrated 50 years of the graduate program in Arts Administration, and 25 years of the endowment of the Center.
Alongside the Bolz Center faculty and center director, Rebecca helped to bring the one-year Master of Arts-Business: Arts and Creative Enterprise Leadership Program to fruition in Summer 2020. A lifelong participant in and supporter of the arts, Rebecca combines this love with her passion for working in higher education.
In 2020, Rebecca was recognized by the Wisconsin School of Business for her dedication and superior service to the school through the Wisconsin Naming Gift Distinguished Service Award. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2000 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Social Work, and minor in Psychology.
When not in the Bolz Center, you can likely find Rebecca buried in a novel or behind the desk at one of the Madison Public Library locations where she proudly moonlights as a librarian.
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- CEO
- Founder
- Member of the WAVE Advisory Board
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- Member of the Hawk Leadership Board
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- President of the External Advisory Board
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- Managing Director, Investment Banking
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- Managing Partner / 29th Street Company
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- Chief Executive Officer
- President
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- Managing Principal / Brennan Investment Group, LLC
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- Chairman in Enterprise Development
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Managing Director / Fulcrum
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- Interim Chief Human Resources Officer
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- Investment Analyst and Portfolio Manager / Adage Capital Management, L.P.
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- Member of the Wisconsin Business Alumni Board
- Product Manager / Microsoft
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- Co - Founder
- Member of the Board
- Member of the WAVE Advisory Board
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- Member of the Emeritus Board
- COO - Global Investment Banking / Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc.
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- Member of the Academic Policy Committee
- Department Chair
- Faculty Director
- Human Resources Thomas J. Falk Distinguished Chair
- Management and Human Resources
- Professor Department Chair for Management and Human Resources, Academic Director, Bolz Center for Arts Administration
Russell Coff is the Thomas J. Falk Distinguished Chair in Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, serving as the Department Chair for Management and Human Resources and the Academic Director of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration. His research explores the role of human assets in innovation, creativity, and, ultimately in competitive advantage. For example, in one study, he explored the role of team-level emotion in generating and selecting creative solutions to challenging problems. Here, he found that, while positive emotions help teams generate more alternatives, these same emotions may actually hurt their ability to select the most creative solution to the problem at hand.
Normally, his creativity is channeled through his research but he also recharges regularly by playing his guitar. He may be the least artistic member of his family but his wife (a writer, artist, and acupuncturist) and daughter (2020 graduate of the UW Theatre & Drama and Physics programs) help him paint with broader strokes.
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- President & CEO / ML Realty Partners
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- Chief Executive Officer and Fund Manager / Big River Real Estate, LLC
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- Member of the Wisconsin Business Alumni Board
- Chief Financial Officer / Steel Partners
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- Alumni Relations Coordinator
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- Member of the Emeritus Board
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- Director, Lifelong Learning Initiativ
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- Member of the Executive Advisory Board
- Global Head of Partner Marketing / Snowflake, Inc.
Sarah Marty brings extensive experience in artistic collaboration and administrative leadership, a passion for sharing the arts with broader audiences, 15+ years as an educator in the UW System, and a strong background in working collaboratively with stakeholders at multiple organizations on a wide variety of projects to the Bolz Center team.
Producing Artistic Director of Four Seasons Theatre, she helps bring musical theatre to venues across Madison and mentors students through their Backstage Arts program. Additional credits range from showcasing Professor Mike Leckrone and the Badger Band at the UW Varsity Band Show and welcoming His Holiness the Dalai Lama to the Overture Center to serving on board for the Overture Center.
A member of UW Teaching Academy, Marty is a recipient of the First Wave Faculty Mentor Award and Bartell Award for Excellence in the Arts. She's a lifelong Badger with a Bachelor of Music Education, an MS in Curriculum & Instruction, and MA in Arts Administration.
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- Program Coordinator for StartUp Learning Community
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- Chief Investment Officer / Brennan Investment Group, LLC
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- Member of the Executive Advisory Board
- Vice President, Hybrid Systems Planning
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- Partner / Norwest Venture Partners
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- Member of the Executive Advisory Board
- Vice President, Supply Chain Operations / Oshkosh Corporation
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- President and Managing Principal / Singerman Real Estate, LLC
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- Member of the Executive Advisory Board
- Executive Vice President, Global Operations and Supply Chain
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- Director
- Director, Bolz Center for Arts Administration and Campus Arts and Business Initiatives at University of Wisconsin - Madison from 2012 - 2020
On May 30, 2020, the Bolz Center lost its fiercest champion and forever greatest ally in Director Sherry Wagner-Henry. Sherry joined the center in 2012 and quickly built on the work of previous directors Andrew Taylor, and Al Prieve. Always one to innovate, she loved to try new ways to engage the students to become successful and impactful leaders, whether directly in, or aside fromthe arts. She developed and delivered a nonprofit board leadership class, incorporated a yearlong impact consulting course, opened the board to professionals who did not graduate from the Bolz program to enhance learning and include perspectives on a wider scale, and established a Wisconsin School of Business Artist-in-Residency program. The list could go on.
Most recently, Sherry spearheaded and launched a new one-year Master of Arts-Business: Arts and Creative Enterprise Leadership degree to provide creative professionals access to an arts-based business curriculum access to fuse arts training with business and social enterprise, and to provide access to business professionals who seek arts-based coursework and social-sector leadership perspectives on business development.
From a research perspective, Sherry was passionate about the topic of community and creative placemaking, and infused its concepts into her classes and applied learning delivery, including the Arts Business Research Symposium which she launched in 2014. Her attention also extended beyond the borders of the Bolz Center as she worked tirelessly with the UW Division of the Arts, Association of Arts Administration Educators (AAAE), Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), and United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT). It is through this work that she created connections and collaborated with-and for-those in her fields. The 2020 Joyce J. and Gerald A. Bartell Award in the Arts, granted by the UW Division of the Arts, was just one of the many recognitions and accolades that grace Sherry's CV.
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- Head of Portfolio / Nike
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- Chairman, Data & Analytics
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- Vice President of Investor Relations / Corporate Office Properties Trust
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- Member of the Wisconsin Business Alumni Board
- Senior Director, Global Health Economics & Reimbursement
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- Kovitz Investment Group / ASAP Founder
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- Global Head, Digital Health / Personalized Healthcare / Roche
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- Vice President Finance / Kleen Test Product Corp
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- President / Assured Partners
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- Capital Group
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- Principal
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- Chairman / the Pyle Group
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- Accounting and Law Distinguished Chair
Retired: Senior Vice President and President, Neuromodulation
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- President & Chief Executive Officer of Life Care Solutions
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- Venture Partner
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- Vice President Community Impact / Madison Community Foundation
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- Accounting and Information Systems
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- Vice President of Strategy and Finance Operations / Allstate Insurance Company
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- Member of the Alumni Advisory Board
- Senior Supply Chain Optimization Analyst
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- CEO
- Member of the Weinert Advisory Board
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- Chief Marketing Officer - WSB / Marketing & Strategic Communications
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- Chief Investment Officer & Chief Operating Officer / NexCore Group
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- Principal / Brynwood Partners
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