Title: Vice president of marketing and sales, OnMilwaukee.com
Age: 33
Family: Married to Stephanie, living downtown
Education: Bachelor of science degree from Marquette University, MBA in business/marketing, Cardinal Stritch University.
Previous working experience: Staff, County Executive David F. Schulz; director of communications, Wisconsin Sports Authority; marketing, Hoffman-York; advertising, public and media relations, lobbying, marketing, local campaign work, Mueller Communications; marketing, CART (Championship Auto Racing Series).
Business mantra: Success is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm. Hire great people, work hard with passion, have fun and listen.
Business role model: Father, Roger Sherman (senior vice president, Goodwill Industries); Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com
Hobbies: Promoting Milwaukee, sports, politics, music, friends, family and watching "Sports Night" on DVD.
Jon Krouse
Title: Vice president of business development/Rummageworks
Age: 29
Family: Married, one child (daughter Bailey)
Education: Bachelor of science degree in environmental engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Previous working experience: Two jobs. First was as a construction project manager for local land development company. Second was a site acquisition project manager for the wireless telecom industry.
Business mantra: Listen closely to your customers and try to give them what they want when they want it.
Role model: My father, Richard Krouse
Hobbies: Rowing with the Milwaukee Rowing Club, mountain biking, triathlons.
Andy Tarnoff
Title: Vice president of creative design/editor
Age: 29
Family: Single
Education: Bachelor of arts degree in international communications from The George Washington University.
Previous working experience: Principal in Creative Media Works, LLC; public relations for two firms in Milwaukee.
Business mantra: It’s not the BIG that eat the SMALL … it’s the FAST that eat the SLOW.
Business role model: Steve Jobs, Mark Cuban
Hobbies: Brewers baseball, discovering the lesser known gems in Wisconsin, driving my ’75 MGB.
