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gap with strong bipartisan measures to invest in degree and training programs with the goal of having 60% of the working population degreed or credentialed by 2030,” Ungerleider said. “(But) we must do more,” he said, “including removing barriers to work by investing in childcare, broadband access and affordable housing, which will drive additional labor force participation. To address some of the immediate issues in our K-12 education system, we recommend using American Rescue Plan Act funding ($6.5 billion of federal aid provided to Michigan) to expand teacher training and recruitment and to invest in before and after school support and summer learning programs.”
HIS CAREER AT DOW Ungerleider’s own post-secondary educational journey began at the University of Texas, where he studied marketing. “It was a great education and in terms of dollar input per output of knowledge, a tremendous value for in-state students,” he said. Corporations, Dow among them, recognized Texas as a top school and recruited there. “I was interested in business, so the summer between my junior and senior year I came to work for Dow in Midland, which I previously hadn’t known existed.” Dow, he said, has a competitive, hardworking and promote-from-within culture. “That summer they threw me in the deep end, trusting me with an important project
here’s to Hunter Pasteur, Southeast Michigan’s premier luxury residential builder, announced that Jake Dangovian has been named vice president of finance. Dangovian previously served as a senior financial and acquisitions analyst — responsible for budgeting and reporting systems throughout Hunter Pasteur’s project portfolio. The new role will expand Dangovian’s duties to include financial reporting, cash flow management, trade partner management and investor relations.
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concerning the fluid used for de-icing airplanes. “At the time, Dow was a large player in that market; and a big technology shift was taking place. We were trying to figure out how fast it was happening and what we could do to differentiate ourselves. I hadn’t yet graduated from college, and I was talking to the FAA and to airport operators around the world,” he said. “At the end of the project I made recommendations to the business unit’s leadership team —
Craig E. Zucker has been appointed to the executive committee of Maddin Hauser Roth & Heller P.C., in Southfield. Zucker is a shareholder with the firm and co-chairs its Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Debtor-Creditor Rights group. John A. MacKenzie has been selected to Michigan Lawyers Weekly’s “Up & Coming Lawyers” for 2022. He is a shareholder with Maddin Hauser and member of its Complex Litigation and Risk Advisory Group. Ronald A. Sollish has been selected to Michigan Lawyers Weekly’s 2022 “Hall of Fame” class. He is a shareholder with Maddin Hauser, and serves as an executive committee member and chairman of its Corporate/Employment Group.
it was pretty exciting stuff.” Following his graduation, Dow hired Ungerleider in 1990 to work in sales on the West Coast, first in San Francisco and then Los Angeles. While working in Los Angeles, he earned an MBA at UCLA. Additionally, he worked for Dow in Houston twice; Danbury, Connecticut; Philadelphia; and Zurich, Switzerland, before returning to Midland in 2008 as vice president of investor relations.
Lauren (Garfield) Herrin, 37, of Bloomfield Township and associate director of Jewish Community Relations Council/American Jewish Committee (JCRC/AJC) was named as one of Oakland County’s 40 Under 40. The 2022 class honors young professionals who live and/ or work in Oakland County and exemplify Oakland Together, a vision for a community working together to leverage its strengths, address its challenges and find value in working with regional partners.
