Missouri: Aaron DiAntonio (Disarm Therapeutics, +Massachusetts); Jim McKelvey (Block, previously Square);  Jennifer & Jon Silva (SentiAR); Katie Thompson (Elemental Enzymes); Lan Yang (DeepSight Technology, +California)

Minnesota: Nicole Atchison (Puris); Michelle Bellanca (Claros Technologies); Tyrre Burks (Players Health); Marlan Hansen & Mike Lobinsky (IotaMotion); Sunny Han (Fulcrum); Ann Holder (Marani); Jon Pearce (Zipnosis);  Jian-Ping Wang (Niron Magnetics)

Nebraska: Tim Brummels (Synbiotic Health); Shane Farritor (Virtual Incision); Cory Scott (LiveBy, Nebraska); Vishal Singh (Quantified Ag)

North Dakota: Michael Chambers (Aldevron); Jake Joraanstad (Bushel); Josh Riedy (Thread)

Ohio: Maria Bennett (SPR Therapeutics); Gordon Daily (Boxcast); Arnab Nandi (Mobikit)

Pennsylvania: Sankalp Arora (Gather AI); Buddy Clark & CJ Handron (Diamond Kinetics); Mark DeSantis (Bloomfield Robotics); Craig Markovitz (Blue Belt Technologies); Norman Sadeh (Wombat Security Technologies); Ben Schmidt (Roadbotics); Jay Whitacre (Stratus Materials)

Wisconsin: Eric Apfelbach (Alphalight, Virent); Zach Halmstad (Jamf); Kurt Heikkinen (Forj, Montage Talent); Corey Jaskolski (RAIC Labs; previously Synthetaic);  John Pattison & Ian Johnson (Cultured Decadence); Greg Piefer (Shine Technologies); Monika Roots (Bend Health, Wisconsin); Niko Skievaski (Redox); Brian Wiegand (Jellyfish, NameProtect and others); Taralinda Willis (Curate)

Big thanks to Microsoft and Quarles for their Season 4 sponsorship that helped us tell our regional founders’ stories!*

How Did You Do That? (Midwest Moxie predecessor show):

How Did You Do That? 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.

Illinois: Jeff Aronin (Paragon Biosciences, Ovation Pharmaceuticals); Glen Tullman (7Wire Ventures; led Allscipts and Livongo to IPOs)

Wisconsin: Bob Atwell (Nicolet Bank); Justin Beck (PerBlue); Laurie Benson (Inacom Information Systems); John Byrnes (Mason Wells); Kevin Conroy (Exact Sciences); Lori Cross (intrepreneur at Datex-Ohmeda, VIASYS Healthcare and others); Craig Culver (Culver’s); Craig Dickman (Titletown Tech, Paper Transport, Breakthrough Fuel); Todd Dunsirn (True Process); Tom Erickson (Acquia); Fred Foster (Electronic Theater Controls); Mike Harris (Patina, Jefferson Wells and others); Lori Hoch (Cortina Asset Management); Jerry Jendusa (EMTEQ); Tera Johnson (Tera’s Whey); Robert Jordan (Idle Free); Ralph Kauten (Mirus, PanVera, Lucigen and others); Tim Keane (Retail Target Marketing Systems); Laura King (Elucent Medical, NeuWave); Rock Mackie (TomoTherapy and others); Michael Major (Cambridge Major); Sue Marks (Cielo Talent, ProStaff, HRfirst); Andy Nunemaker (EM Systems); Jignesh Patel (DataChat and 3 others); Loren Peterson (Zystor Therapeutics); James Phelps (JCP Construction); Tom Rehberger (Agro BioSciences); Gary Reynolds (FieldCast, GMR Marketing); Chris Salm (Ab E Discovery; Salm Partners); Paul Schueller (Franklin Energy); Jerry Smith (First Business Bank); John Splude (HK Systems); Roger Thrun (WHR Group); Pete Ullrich (Titan Spine); Ed Ward (Irish Fest); Kyle Weatherly (Frontdesk, Solaris)