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Van Horn Automotive Group employees now own a 77% majority stake in the Plymouth-based company.

Hotel management company White Lodging announced that the Westin and Marriott hotels in downtown Milwaukee have new leaders.

Kenosha-based Riley Construction Company announced several recent promotions for top leadership positions.

Brady Corp. is in the middle of a leadership change as J. Michael Nauman, current director, president and chief executive officer, is retiring. Russell R. Shaller will succeed Nauman as president, chief executive officer and director effective April 1.

Former Foxconn executive Alan Yeung, one of the most prominent executives in the company’s arrival in Wisconsin, has written a memoir detailing the site selection process for the Foxconn project in Mount Pleasant.

The Marcus Corp. has promoted Steve Martin to chief human resources officer.

Carthage College has named Jim Padilla as the founding dean of its new School of Business and Economics. 

Menomonee Falls-based SKYGEN has appointed Steve Berryman to the position of chief executive officer. Craig Kasten, the company’s outgoing chief executive officer, is “relinquishing his role”, according to a press release. Kasten will continue as managing member of SKYGEN.

VIA CDC, the Milwaukee-based community development organization formerly known as Layton Boulevard West Neighbors, has named JoAnna Bautch as its executive director.

Shari Black, the interim executive director and CEO of Wisconsin State Fair Park, has shed the “interim” status of the title and been officially promoted to the position, the Wisconsin State Fair Park Board of Directors announced today.

Jim Lagina, the former owner and president of Milwaukee-based Lagina Plumbing who later was self-employed as business development manager of Lagina Agency, died recently at the age of 63.

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers will remain with the team under a contract extension, according to numerous national media reports today.