Profiles

Jack Pelton leads the Experimental Aircraft Association, which draws more than 500,000 people to Oshkosh annually for its AirVenture event.

Kevin Krentz was elected president of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation in 2020 and assumed the position of interim chief administrative officer this summer.

Named president and CEO of America’s Black Holocaust Museum in 2019, Dr. Robert Davis led the organization to its long-awaited reopening in 2022.

As a student at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in 2002, Eau Claire native Zach Halmstad co-founded his first company, Jamf.

Jeff Yabuki led Brookfield-based Fiserv Inc., a payments and financial services technology company, from 2005 to 2020. He also served as Fiserv’s chairman from 2019 to 2020.

Matthew Rowe joined Wausau-based business law firm Ruder Ware in 1997 and was named president in 2021. He also serves on the company's board.

Then serving as chairman of the board, Jorge Franco assumed leadership of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin in 2013 as interim president and chief executive officer.

Former retail executive Kathy Thornton-Bias moved to the nonprofit sector in 2019 when she became president and CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee.

The Most Rev. Jerome Listecki is archbishop of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, an ecclesiastical territory that covers 10 southeastern Wisconsin counites, comprises roughly 190 parishes, and is responsible for the spiritual care of over 500,000 registered Catholics.

In 2015, Milwaukee native David Reeves joined OpenGov Inc. as its chief revenue officer. In 2019, he was named president of the cloud software company.