BizTimes Media hosted its annual Family & Closely Held Business Summit on June 29 at the Brookfield Conference Center. About 200 people were in attendance at what was BizTimes’ first in-person event since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The event included a keynote Q&A with Carl Rick, training manager and third generation spokesperson at Kwik Trip, as well as a panel discussion with the leaders of four family-owned companies based in southeastern Wisconsin. The program was followed by breakout sessions and then a cocktail reception.
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BizTimes executive editor Andrew Weiland sat down with Carl Rick, training manager and third generation spokesperson at Kwik Trip for a Q&A on the company’s growth and family business philosophies.
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Associate editor Arthur Thomas moderated a panel discussion with Andrew Steinhafel, president of Steinhafels Inc.; Lacey Sadoff, president of Badger Liquor; Martin Gallun, chairman and owner of Metalcraft of Mayville, Inc.; and Ollie Ellsworth, president of GDI Adhesives.
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Jay Rosencrantz of PappasDelaney, James Wawrzyn of Meissner Tierney Fisher & Nicholas S.C., and Paul Vragel of 4aBetterBusiness Inc.
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Jim Meyer of JMeyer Consulting, and David Kircher and Tate Mattingly, both of Phoenix Financial Advisors.