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Gary Witt oversees a group of Milwaukee music venues, employing 350 employees and hosting nearly 700 shows and events annually.

Donald Baumgartner led Paper Machinery Corp. and has been a major supporter of the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Ballet and Florentine Opera

Austin Ramirez is chief executive officer of Husco International, a Waukesha-based manufacturer of hydraulic and electro-mechanical components.

Jay Rothman was appointed president of the University of Wisconsin System earlier this year. His role includes oversight of the system’s 13 universities and 26 campuses.

After working for Wisconsin Gas Co. for 20 years, Debbie Allen left her job to become a McDonald’s Corp. franchisee.

After joining in 1991 the company his father founded, Joel Quadracci took over Sussex-based Quad/Graphics 15 years later.

Marlon WhiteEagle was named president of the 6,500-member Ho-Chunk Nation in 2019. He is serving his first four-year term.

In 1987, Mike Mooney co-founded Mooney LeSage & Associates Ltd., the private equity firm that would later become real estate investment company MLG Capital. Today, the Brookfield-based firm and its associated entities’ investments total roughly 36 million square feet of space, with exited and estimated current value exceeding $5 billion.

Louis Pinkham became chief executive officer of Regal Beloit Corp. in 2019, which later completed a $3.7 billion merger.

Mark Mone has led the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the state’s second-largest university, since 2014.