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