Arthur Thomas
Arthur covers banking and finance and the economy at BizTimes while also leading special projects as an associate editor. He also spent five years covering manufacturing at BizTimes. He previously was managing editor at The Waukesha Freeman. He is a graduate of Carroll University and did graduate coursework at Marquette. A native of southeastern Wisconsin, he is also a nationally certified gymnastics judge and enjoys golf on the weekends.
Weekly Debrief: Is Cardinal Stritch’s closing just the first of many?
Andrew Weiland and Arthur Thomas from BizTimes Media get together to discuss the news of the week, including the decision by Cardinal Stritch University...
🔒 Brady Corp. CFO leaving, internal successor named
Aaron Pearce plans to step down as chief financial officer of Brady Corp. to pursue other opportunities, the Milwaukee-based maker of identification and workplace...
🔒 VC activity in Wisconsin continued at lower level in Q1
Wisconsin companies executed 21 venture capital deals in the first quarter of the year, raising a little more than $108 million, according to the...
🔒 Departing Harley CFO will nearly double base salary at Hasbro
Harley-Davidson chief financial officer Gina Goetter plans to leave the company at the end of the month for the same role at Rhode Island-based...
🔒 Investment losses, $895 million in additional wages, leave Advocate Aurora...
Advocate Aurora Health Inc. ended 2022 with its total expenses exceeding revenues by $750 million as higher salaries and wages and investment losses cut...
🔒 Baird’s 2022 revenue down 18% from record high
Milwaukee-based Baird posted its second highest net revenue ever in 2022 at $2.79 billion, a more than 18% drop from the prior year, according...
🔒 Harley-Davidson CEO in line for big payday if he can...
On the surface, Harley-Davidson’s annual securities filing detailing how much its executives make shows Jochen Zeitz was paid $43.3 million in 2022.
However, Zeitz, the...
🔒 Johnson Controls names new president for $9.4 billion business segment
Johnson Controls has named an executive from Otis Elevator Company is the new president of its Building Solutions North America business.
Julie Brandt will be...
🔒 Q&A: BMO’s Jud Snyder discusses growing role, recent challenges in...
In a nearly three decade career with first M&I Bank and then BMO, Jud Snyder has gone from being a credit analyst to roles...
🔒 Wisconsin economy grew 1.7% in 2022 but lags Great Lakes...
Wisconsin’s real gross domestic product increased 1.7% from 2021 to 2022, an increase that ranks 26th in the country and is slightly slower than...
🔒 Region’s manufacturing sector continued to slow in March
The southeastern Wisconsin manufacturing is showing some signs of a slowdown from issues hitting the wider economy, according to the latest Marquette-ISM Report on...
🔒 Milwaukee County population down by 5,500 over past year
Wisconsin saw its population grew by 12,438 in 2022, an increase of 0.21% that ranks in the middle-of-the-pack compared to other states, according to...
