Profiles

Nicholas Wahl has led Milwaukee-based law firm Godfrey & Kahn for more than a decade as president and managing partner.

A longtime resident of South Madison, Robert Pierce has been growing and selling organic produce from his Half the 40-Acres Farm since the mid-1980s.

Marcelle Polednik was named the inaugural Donna and Donald Baumgartner director of the Milwaukee Art Museum in 2016.

Having grown up on his family farm, Jeremie Pavelski and his wife, Alicia, now help lead the fifth-generation enterprise, Heartland Farms.

Kurt Bechthold leads Walbec Group, representing the third generation of family leadership for the Pewaukee-based company. Founded by his grandfather, Walter Bechthold, and later led by his father, Ned Bechthold, Walbec today includes construction firms Payne and Dolan, Northeast Asphalt, Zenith Tech, Parisi, Premier Concrete and Construction Resources Management.

Larry Schechtman was among the founding partners of SmithAmundsen, now called Amundsen Davis LLC following its merger with Davis|Kuelthau s.c.

Jack Pelton leads the Experimental Aircraft Association, which draws more than 500,000 people to Oshkosh annually for its AirVenture event.

Kevin Krentz was elected president of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation in 2020 and assumed the position of interim chief administrative officer this summer.

Named president and CEO of America’s Black Holocaust Museum in 2019, Dr. Robert Davis led the organization to its long-awaited reopening in 2022.

As a student at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in 2002, Eau Claire native Zach Halmstad co-founded his first company, Jamf.