The Advisory Board provides counsel to the Batterman School of Business dean to assist in aligning student learning outcomes and industry standards, addressing marketplace needs and opportunities for programmatic growth, and promoting job placement and fundraising.
David Latona
President
Milwaukee Economic Development Corporation
David Latona has been the president of the Milwaukee Economic Development Corporation since 2013, with over 15 years of experience in the field prior to taking over the presidency. David graduated from Concordia University Wisconsin with a baccalaureate in Accounting. He has also earned his M.B.A. from Marquette University
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Amin Kassam
Vice President of Neurosciences
Aurora Health Care
Amin Kassam is an internationally renowned, board-certified neurosurgeon, with over 200 peer reviewed articles, two textbooks, and 30 national and international awards and presented over 150 lectures across the world. He is a pioneer in a number of groundbreaking procedures, including creating a systems approach to identify, access and harvest stem cells in deep regions of the brain.
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Gary Vaughan
Director, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program
Lawrence University
Gary Vaughan is a member of the Board of Directors as well as a member of the Finance Committee for Fox Cities Chamber of Commerce in Appleton, WI. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors to Self Employment in the Arts (SEA) Organization, Lisle, IL, and as a member on the Board of Directors to Wisconsin Academy for Global Education and Training (WAGET), Milwaukee, WI. He has a M.S. in Management and Organizational Behavior, and is the founder of Guident Business Solutions.
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Karen Sommer
Director, Product Management Excellence
Johnson Controls
Karen joined Johnson Controls in 2006 and currently serves as the Director of Global Public Affairs. She is responsible for managing the company’s global public affairs programs, sustainability reporting and NGO relationships. She provides guidance and direction relative to sustainability trends, benchmarking of sustainability performance and identifying opportunities to gain recognition for the Company’s commitment to sustainability. In addition, she oversees the company’s philanthropic efforts
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Joe Kirgues
Co-founder
Generator
Joe currently serves as a Co-Founder of gener8tor. gener8tor is a startup accelerator located in Milwaukee and Madison that provides startups with seed capital, applies lean-startup principles to startup development, creates an environment for entrepreneurs to collaborate and establishes access to later-stage capital.
Previously, Joe worked at Quarles & Brady, where he focused his practice on private equity and securities law. Joe received his law degree from the University of Wisconsin.
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Chris Carlson
Financial Representative
Northwestern Mutual
Chris started his career with Northwestern Mutual in 2007 as a college financial representative thanks to an introduction from Russ Ostrowski. Chris earned his position as a full time member of the firm in 2009 and has held the roles of College Unit Director, Field Director, and is currently the Managing Director of the North Shore Office in Glendale. Chris works with clients ranging from young professionals, to established families, to successful business owners.
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Rick Anderson
Chief Executive Officer and Board Chairman
Smart Choice MRI
Prior to joining Smart Choice MRI in 2014, Rick served as senior vice president of the social engagement platform Sharecare. Since its founding in 2009 by Dr. Mehmet Oz, Jeff Arnold and Harpo Studios, Rick led the company’s hospital markets and provider solutions team. Prior to his tenure at Sharecare, Rick served as a startup and executive team member for several health care businesses, including WebMD, QDS and Endeavor Technologies.
Rick is co-founder and board member of Alithias.
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Kurt Waldhuetter
Vice President, Research Innovation & Business
Aurora Research Institute
Kurt leads a highly skilled, multidisciplinary team that oversees the research institute’s business operations. Guiding a core of contract specialists who complete about 200 agreements annually, Kurt ensures the research enterprise remains sustainable and solvent. He also oversees Research Analytics and the Biorepository Specimen Resource Center, specialized services that drive research with high quality data extraction and programming, and specimen collection and utilization.
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Daniel Lawton
President
Promentis Pharmaceuticals
Daniel is Chairman of the Board of Promentis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Milwaukee-based start up developing new therapies for the treatment of schizophrenia and other CNS disorders, a company for which he was the founding CEO. Daniel led Promentis until taking on the Group President role at Dohmen, where he led five Dohmen group companies in the life science services space.
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Adam Vanderveen (’13)
Global Brand Marketing Lead
BRP
Adam is a 33 year old CUW Alumni, who graduated from the school of business with an MBA in 2013. He currently works as a Global Marketing Specialist for BRP's Evinrude Outboard Engine brand, and lives in Milwaukee Wisconsin. His personal hobbies are coaching kickboxing and train and compete as a professional mixed martial artist.
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Tim Keane
President, Keane Consultants
Director, Golden Angels Investors
Tim Keane, President of Keane Consultants, is an active advisor to revenue stage companies.
He is the founder of a leading software provider of advanced analytics systems for major retailers and financial institutions ($20MM sales, 2000). This web analytics company (RTMS, Inc.) was first in the retail industry to utilize advanced analytics and response techniques to dramatically improve retail sales for America's best-known retailers. It was sold in 2000 and is now a unit of Fidelity Financial.
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