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Dave Vetta, president & CEO of First Business Bank – Milwaukee

Dave Vetta
President & CEO
First Business Bank - Milwaukee
18500 W. Corporate Drive, Brookfield
www.firstbusiness.com
Industry:
Financial services
Employees: First Business Financial Services: 162; First Business Bank-Milwaukee: 25
Family: Spouse, Katy; three daughters

SBA loans climb to new record

The U.S. Small Business Administration 7(a) Loan Program reached another lending record in fiscal 2014, announced SBA administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet.

Exploring your brand voice in social media

One of the great opportunities that social media provides a business is an opportunity to explore the boundaries of its brand voice. The nature of this marketing channel is in its name. It's “social” and one of the hardest parts about managing social media is that we're invading our customers' “social” space. You're a business trying to vie for visibility and attention in a space typically devoted to their friends and family. How do you win the attention of your customers, then? One way is to become as much of a “friend” as possible – by being someone that they can identify with.

Franklin puts Marquette on the pollster map

When the Marquette University Law School Poll reported that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker had opened a seven-point lead just days before the Nov. 4 election, many supporters of Democratic challenger Mary Burke criticized the poll as an outlier.

Hall has brought stability to WEDC

If asked to return for another term as secretary and chief executive officer of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp.,...
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Personnel File

Accounting


Brookfield-based Vrakas/Blum, S.C has added Cory Loppnow as a staff accountant. Loppnow graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater with a master's of professional accountancy degree in 2014. At Vrakas/Blum, he will work in the audit and tax department and will handle individual, corporate and trust tax returns. He will also help complete audit, review and compilation procedures.

Biz Notes

Hispanic Professionals of Greater Milwaukee


Griselda Aldrete, executive director of the Hispanic Professionals of Greater Milwaukee, recently graduated from the National Hispana Leadership Institute's Executive Leadership Program. The program, which caters to a select group of participants, focuses on skill development, mentorship and training.

Delegate effectively: Tips to help hand off tasks to subordinates

"If I want it done right, I'd better do it myself."


"If I gave my people more to do, they'd resent it."


"By the time I explain what I want done, I'll have it done myself."

Amazing work: Social entrepreneurship gives Goodwill a boost

"…and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks…"

—Isaiah 2:4

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