Chairman, CEO and owner
SysLogic | Brookfield
Tina Chang is widely recognized as a leader in Milwaukee’s technology sector, having served since 1996 as chief executive officer of SysLogic, a Brookfield-based information systems consulting and services firm. During her tenure, she has spun off three technology startups: SysSpark LLC, Cyberspect LLC and WillBridge Ltd.
Outside of SysLogic, she serves on the boards of Strattec Security Corp., Delta Dental of Wisconsin, Central States Manufacturing and Weyco Group, is an investor in Milwaukee-based online sports game Cover5 and is a partner of cybersecurity and information security company Ghostscale.
SysLogic has been a recipient of the Future 50 award (recognizing the fastest-growing companies in southeastern Wisconsin) multiple times, as well as the Wisconsin Small Business Innovation Award in 2010.
Chnag has won numerous awards for her leadership, including the Wisconsin Business Hall of Fame Peak Performer award, United Performing Arts Fund Civic Partnership Award and Professional Dimensions Sacagawea Award.
She’s served on many nonprofit boards including Alverno College, Children’s Wisconsin, Milwaukee Police Department Foundation, Milwaukee Public Schools Foundation, Wisconsin Policy Forum, Teach for America, Waukesha County Business Alliance and the YMCA-Metro Milwaukee.
Education: Bachelor’s, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2022 Wisconsin 275 Profile
Emerging Industries | Technology
Chairman, CEO and owner
SysLogic | Brookfield
Five years after joining SysLogic as its first employee in 1996, Tina Chang was appointed chief executive officer of the Brookfield-based information systems consulting and services firm. She is now also chairman and sole owner of SysLogic. During her 26 years with the company, she has led the spinoff of three startups, SysSpark LLC, Cyberspect LLC and WillBridge Ltd. She has won numerous awards for her leadership and serves on the boards of Weyco Group and Strattec Security Corp. and numerous nonprofit organizations.
Education: Bachelor’s, UW-Madison
First job: “I did a stint as a hand model for jewelry catalogues. It made me recognize we all have unique and natural strengths we can play up and compete on.”
Two business leaders you’d like to have dinner with: “MC Hammer. I’d love to hear his personal story of how he made it big, lost it big, and what he would do differently (or not) if he could do it all over again. (And) Jeff Bezos. We started our businesses in the same year (one of us obviously did better). I would go year by year to understand who and what influenced him to make the next move, and what tradeoffs he had to make, both personally and professionally, along the way.”
Favorite restaurant: “Elsa’s on the Park. I order the Daisy Mae Burger with homemade chips 100% of the time.”
Toughest business challenge: “Running and leading a business as a female in a male-dominated business world. I’m still working through it.”
