Midwest Moxie founders by industry
Computing/SaaS: Sankalp Arora (Gather AI); Amy Brown (Authenticx); Tyrre Burks (Players Health); Eric Christopher (Zylo); Buddy Clark & CJ Handron (Diamond Kinetics); Garry Cooper (Rheaply); Gordon Daily (Boxcast); Mike Evans (GrubHub, Fixer); Mo Faisal (Movellus); Chris Goode (Climavision); Ankur Gopal (Interapt); Zach Halmstad (Jamf); Sunny Han (Fulcrum); Kurt Heikkinen (Forj, Montage Talent); Corey Jaskolski (RAIC Labs; previously Synthetaic); Valarie King-Bailey (Onshore Technology Group); Jim McKelvey (Block, previously Square); Arnab Nandi (Mobikit); Julia Regan (Rx Lightening); Norman Sadeh (Wombat Security Technologies); Ben Schmidt (Roadbotics); Cory Scott (LiveBy, Nebraska); Lindsay Tjepkema (Casted); Brian Wiegand (Jellyfish, NameProtect and others); Taralinda Willis (Curate)
Energy/Industrial: Eric Apfelbach (Alphalight, Virent); Jacob Babcock (NuCurrent); Michelle Bellanca (Claros Technologies); Nancy Benovich Gilby (Orbion Space Technology and others); Christopher Day (DemandJump); Sridhar Deivasigamani (Intellihot); Danny Ellis (Skyspecs); Lauren Flanagan (Sesame Solar); BJ Johnson (ClearFlame); Alisyn Malek (May Mobility); Greg Piefer (Shine Technologies); Jian-Ping Wang (Niron Magnetics); Joanne Rodriguez (Mycocycle); Francis Wang (NanoGraf Technologies); Jay Whitacre (Stratus Materials)
Food & Ag Tech: Nicole Atchison (Puris); Mark DeSantis (Bloomfield Robotics); Jake Joraanstad (Bushel); Andrew Parkinson (Sifter Solutions, Peapod); John Pattison & Ian Johnson (Cultured Decadence); Alex Skryl (NutriSense); Josh Riedy (Thread); Matt Rubin (True Essence Foods); Vishal Singh (Quantified Ag); Katie Thompson (Elemental Enzymes); Tracey Wiedmeyer (Gripp)
Human Health: Ramses Alcaide (Neurable); Jen Baird (Accuri Cytometers and others); Maria Bennett (SPR Therapeutics); Tim Brummels (Synbiotic Health); Michael Chambers (Aldevron); Aaron DiAntonio (Disarm Therapeutics, +Massachusetts); Ben Evans (Marathon Health); Shane Farritor (Virtual Incision); Tom Gajewski (Jounce, Pyxis); Marlan Hansen & Mike Lobinsky (IotaMotion); Ann Holder (Marani); Craig Markovitz (Blue Belt Technologies); Jon Pearce (Zipnosis); Monika Roots (Bend Health, Wisconsin); Jennifer & Jon Silva (SentiAR); Niko Skievaski (Redox); Lan Yang (DeepSight Technology)
Big thanks to Microsoft and Quarles for their Season 4 sponsorship that helped us tell our regional founders’ stories!*
How Did You Do That?
How Did You Do That? (Midwest Moxie predecessor show) was a radio segment/podcast co-hosted by Executive Director Kathleen Gallagher. Listen HERE on WUWM or on Apple and other podcast platforms to interviews with (mostly Wisconsin-based) founders to learn how and why they succeeded.
Computing/SaaS: Justin Beck (PerBlue); Laurie Benson (Inacom Information Systems); Tom Erickson (Acquia); Mike Harris (Patina, Jefferson Wells and others); Tim Keane (Retail Target Marketing Systems); Sue Marks (Cielo Talent, ProStaff, HRfirst); Andy Nunemaker (EM Systems); Jignesh Patel (DataChat and 3 others); Gary Reynolds (FieldCast, GMR Marketing)
Energy/Industrial: Craig Dickman (Titletown Tech, Paper Transport, Breakthrough Fuel); Todd Dunsirn (True Process); Fred Foster (Electronic Theater Controls); Jerry Jendusa (EMTEQ); Robert Jordan (Idle Free); Paul Schueller (Franklin Energy); John Splude (HK Systems)
Food & Ag Tech: Tera Johnson (Tera’s Whey); Tom Rehberger (Agro BioSciences); Chris Salm (Ab E Discovery; Salm Partners)
Human Health: Jeff Aronin (Paragon Biosciences, Ovation Pharmaceuticals); Kevin Conroy (Exact Sciences); Lori Cross (intrepreneur at Datex-Ohmeda, VIASYS Healthcare and others); Ralph Kauten (Mirus, PanVera, Lucigen and others); Laura King (Elucent Medical, NeuWave); Rock Mackie (TomoTherapy and others); Michael Major (Cambridge Major); Glen Tullman (7Wire Ventures; led Allscipts and Livongo to IPOs); Loren Peterson (Zystor Therapeutics); Pete Ullrich (Titan Spine)
Other: Bob Atwell (Nicolet Bank); John Byrnes (Mason Wells); Craig Culver (Culver’s); Lori Hoch (Cortina Asset Management); James Phelps (JCP Construction); Jerry Smith (First Business Bank); Roger Thrun (WHR Group); Ed Ward (Irish Fest); Kyle Weatherly (Frontdesk, Solaris)