BizTimes Milwaukee is proud to present the 2011 Bravo! Entrepreneur and IQ (Innovation Quotient) Awards, honoring southeastern Wisconsin business leaders who are boldly leading their companies with vision and innovation and corporations generating innovative products, services or processes.
This year’s Bravo! Entrepreneur Lifetime Achievement Award went to the Usinger Family. Previous recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award include Stephen Marcus, Richard Pieper Sr., Harry Quadracci, George Dalton, Robert Kern and Joseph Zilber. The Usinger name has been one of the iconic brands in metro Milwaukee. Since 1880, Fred Usinger Inc. has made sausages and cured meats, and the company has passed from its founder, Fred Usinger, to a fourth generation of the family who runs the company today.
Read more about the Usingers and the other winners of the Bravo! Entrepreneur award winners, including Mary Scheibel, founding principal/chairperson of Scheibel Halaska Inc., this year’s winner of the Regional Spirit Award, and the winners of the IQ (Innovation Quotient) Awards.
Please click the below links to view the profiles of the winners.
IQ Award Winners:
- Bradshaw Medical Inc.
- Compass Properties LLC
- HarQen Inc.
- Helios USA
- Jockey International
- Lightweight Structures LLC
- Meet-Meme Inc.
- Perceptral
- Sales Progress
- Spaulding Clinical Research LLC
Bravo! Entrepreneur Award Winners:
- Bravo! Lifetime Achievement Award 2011: The Usinger Family
- Bravo! Regional Spirit Award: Mary Scheibel
- Ron Baake
- Wayne Baumgartner
- William P. Beckett
- Fritz Frazier
- Jim Kacmarcik
- Russ Klisch
- Paul T. Riedl & Joe Skotarzak
- Tim Starr
- Gregg Tushaus
IQ stories by: Colleen Hermann
Bravo and Regional Spirit stories by: Colleen Hermann
Lifetime Achievement story by: Eric Decker
Photos by: Paul Gaertner | White Dog Photography
