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Milwaukee 7’s annual meeting Milwaukee 7 recently held its annual meeting at Northwestern Mutual’s downtown headquarters. Business and government leaders gathered to hear about the regional economic development partnership’s successes over the past year. 1. LAURA MILLION of the Racine County Economic Development Corp., TRACY LUBER of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. and DAVID KIRCHER of Phoenix Financial Advisors. 2. LYNN BEAUCHESNE of the RCEDC and TINA CHITWOOD of the WEDC. 3. MICHAEL HARPER of M2r Electric Services and JEFF STONE of Kapur & Associates. 4. DREW SLOCUM of Bank of America and LEIGH PRICE of Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce. 5. VINCENT LYLES of Advocate Aurora Health and JEFFREY TICKNOR of BMO Harris. 6. RENEE HERZING of Herzing University and JOHN WALZ of Milwaukee School of Engineering. 7. ANDREA MENDEZ BARRUTIA of the Hispanic Collaborative and REBECCA GOODMANSON of M7. 8. MICHAEL HOSTAD of the Greater Milwaukee Committee and JOEL BRENNAN of the Wisconsin Department of Administration. 9. PEGGY WILLIAMS-SMITH of Visit Milwaukee and GREGORY WESLEY of the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Photos by Lauren Anderson

Milwaukee Women inc’s 20% by 2020 Celebration Milwaukee Women inc and Baird recently hosted an event to recognize the companies and individuals who helped achieve a more than 20% representation of female directors on the boards of the Top 50 Wisconsin public companies. 10. (left to right) PATTY WHALEY of Rexnord, TODD ADAMS of Rexnord, JOEL QUADRACCI of Quad/ Graphics, BRENDA CAMPBELL of SecureFutures and JODI CZERNEJEWSKI of inFORME healthcare. 11. PATTY WHALEY and TODD ADAMS, both of Rexnord. 12. COREY CHAMBAS of First Business Financial Services Inc. 13. JACKIE MORTENSON of Milwaukee Women inc, LYNN SPRANGERS of the Marcus Performing Arts Center, DR. KELLY OTTMAN of Milwaukee School of Engineering, CHRIS MORTENSON of MKR, CHRISTY BROWN of Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast and LAURA GUTIERREZ of United Community Center. 14. PHYLLIS KING of UW-Milwaukee; LINDSAY HAMMERER, chair of Milwaukee Women inc; and PATRICIA ACKERMAN of A.O. Smith. 15. STEVE BOOTH of Baird and LAURA GUTIERREZ of United Community Center. 16. MARA SWAN of ManpowerGroup and LISA PENDERGAST, DIANNA HIGGINS, SAL MIOSI and PAULA MAGGIO, all of MGIC. Photos by Front Room Photography