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, Google Play, NPR One, Spotify and other podcast platforms.
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 (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; Wisconsin); Nancy Benovich Gilby (Orbion Space Techology 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 (Square, now called Block; 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 successful (mostly Wisconsin-based) entrepreneurs 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 and 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).