Briggs and Stratton Corp. chairman, president and chief executive officer Todd Teske
was re-elected chairman of Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, the state’s
chamber of commerce and largest business association, in a vote of the WMC
Board today.
Daniel
Ariens, president and CEO of Ariens Company, was re-elected vice chair at the
WMC annual board meeting at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee.
“Wisconsin
has made great strides in the past two years improving our business climate,
but we can do even more,” said WMC president and CEO Kurt Bauer. “We have a
real opportunity to build on our successes and get into the Top 10 pro-business
states in the nation.”
WMC
will continue to pursue a broad public policy agenda aimed at cutting taxes,
reforming regulation relief, lawsuit reform, workforce development and
infrastructure improvements, Bauer said.
In
addition, Tod Linstroth, senior partner and
member of the management committee at Michael Best & Friedrich LLP,
was re-elected secretary of the WMC, and Timothy Christen, CEO of Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP, was
re-elected treasurer.
Others
elected or re-elected to WMC’s board included: Randal Baker, P and H Mining
Equipment Inc.; Robert Keller, J.J. Keller & Associates Inc.; Patrick
McConnell, Flash, Inc.; James McIntyre, Greenheck Fan Corp.; Scott Mayer, QPS
Employment Group; Gina Peter, Wells Fargo Bank Wisconsin; Karl Schmidt, Belmark
Inc.; Kristine Seymour, Humana Inc.; Karen Szyman, The Chamber of Manitowoc
County; S. Mark Tyler, OEM Fabricators; and David Yanda, Lakeside Foods, Inc.
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