Anne M. Wenninger Gehring has been hired as senior vice president, managing senior counsel at Associated Bank in Milwaukee. She is responsible for leading the retail banking legal team. Wenninger earned a bachelor’s degree in economics/finance from Rutgers University and a law degree from Marquette University. She most recently served as vice president, retail compliance manager at BMO Harris Bank.
Mary Coleman has been hired as senior vice president, operations and technology audit director at Associated Bank in Milwaukee. She is responsible for managing the bank’s operations and information technology audits by providing risk centric assurance with respect to the effectiveness of risk management practices, governance process and internal controls systems. Coleman has a bachelor’s in business administration from University of Michigan and most recently served as senior information technology manager at Fiserv.
Alicia Holcomb has been hired as senior vice president, corporate risk fiduciary, investment and non-bank process manager at Associated Bank in Milwaukee. She is responsible for working with the bank’s chief risk office and senior business line managers to establish policies and practices for the measurement and management of risk in the areas of market, interest rate and fiduciary. Holcomb earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Carroll University and most recently served as senior audit manager at BMO Financial Corp.
Ryan A. Olsta has been promoted to managing director at Cleary Gull Inc. in Milwaukee. He joined the company in 2004 from A.G. Edwards in St. Louis. Olsta earned a BBA in accounting from University of Notre Dame and an MBA from Washington University. He has 12 years of transaction experience and has helped grow Cleary Gull’s M&A business, particularly in the foundry, industrial manufacturing and technology industries.
Patrick Bremmer has been promoted to vice president at Cleary Gull Inc. in Milwaukee. He joined the firm in 2007 from ExxonMobil and has been actively involved in industrial and technology transactions. Bremmer earned a BS in civil engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MBA from Northwestern University.
Matthew Pearson has been hired as an associated at Cleary Gull Inc. in Milwaukee. He recently earned an MBA from Vanderbilt University. Pearson also holds an MSIE and a BS from the University of Louisville. He previously worked at Gen Cap America, Mountain Group Capital, CLARCOR and General Electric.
Christopher Larsen has been hired as an analyst at Cleary Gull Inc. in Milwaukee. He previously served as an analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. Larsen holds a BA from Ripon College and an MBA from University of Rochester.
Justin Abbott has been named vice president-commercial sales executive for greater Milwaukee at Johnson Insurance Services in Milwaukee. He has more than 14 years of sales experience, most recently as commercial lines producer at Integrated Risk Solutions for the last eight years. Abbott specializes in large property risks and workers compensation insurance programs with a special focus on contracting, trucking and manufacturing exposures. He holds a bachelor’s in broadcast journalism from Northwest Missouri State University.
