Tag: Board of Directors

  • Big Brothers Big Sisters welcomes new board members with UW-Green Bay ties

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    Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Wisconsin (BBBSNEW) is a one-to-one mentoring program that has been igniting the potential of youth in Brown, Door, and Shawano Counties since 1972. Volunteers, staff, and board members are dedicated to empowering the community through relationship-focused growth. As part of this growth, the program is excited to welcome five…

  • Passing of Bob Southard


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    Word was received Monday of the passing of Robert “Bob” Southard, 91, a local broadcasting executive who became an early and lifelong champion of UW-Green Bay. Southard’s record of support is well documented, culminating with presentation in May 2012 of a Founders Lifetime Achievement Award. The University and its Founders Association Board thanked him “for…

  • Packers appoint first woman to Executive Committee, and it’s Finco


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    Congratulations to Susan Finco of the UW-Green Bay Foundation Board of Directors and Chancellor’s Council of Trustees. The public relations executive has been nominated to become the first female member of the Green Bay Packers Executive Committee. The move becomes official at the team shareholders meeting on July 28. ESPN.com has more.

  • Foundation’s Finco earns local Free Enterprise Award

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Congratulations to Susan Finco, owner and president of Leonard & Finco Public Relations and a longtime member of the UW-Green Bay Council of Trustees and Foundation Board. Named this week as the 2015 recipient of the prestigious Free Enterprise Award presented by the Rotary Club of Green Bay, she is the first female recipient in…

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    Maricque is new president of UW-Green Bay Alumni Association

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    Class of 1978 graduate Steve Maricque is the new president of the UW-Green Bay Alumni Association. He succeeds outgoing president Donna Sheedy ’94. Maricque, a Business Administration grad, is president of the Bellin Health Foundation. The full list of Alumni Association executive committee members and directors for  2014-15 is as follows: Executive Committee Steve Maricque…

  • Trustee, alumnus Mark King gets new job as CEO of Adidas North America

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    Mark King has been promoted from CEO of TaylorMade-Adidas Golf to president of Adidas Group North America, the company announced Thursday. King, a Green Bay native, 1981 graduate of UW-Green Bay’s Business Administration program and member of the Council of Trustees/Foundation Board of Directors, will begin his new assignment June 1. In his new role,…

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    SIFE (a.k.a ‘Enactus) plays role in regional Ethics in Business Awards

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    The Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team at UW-Green Bay contributed to the success of the sixth annual Ethics in Business Awards luncheon Thursday (Nov. 14) at the KI Convention Center in downtown Green Bay. The event shines a spotlight on Northeastern Wisconsin individuals and organizations notable for their ethical business practices. Adviser John Stoll,…

  • Photos: Founders get update on 360° campaign

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    The University’s oldest philanthropic and advocacy group, The Founders Association (founded in 1973), had its first board meeting of the year this week on campus. The group heard remarks by Board President Rob Cera ’84, UW-Green Bay Chancellor Thomas Harden and Assistant Chancellor for University Advancement Bev Carmichael. The agenda included updates on the state…

  • Packers President Murphy: ‘I love the photo’

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    Mark Murphy, president and CEO of the Green Bay Packers, is also a University trustee and member of the board of directors of the UW-Green Bay Foundation Inc. It was in this latter role that he clicked the link to our Friday photo of the football field-sized “GO PACK GO” message stamped in the snow…

  • Strong Foundation: Snapshots from meeting of UW-Green Bay advocates

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    The fall 2012 meeting of the Board of Directors of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Foundation, Inc., drew more than two dozen distinguished UW-Green Bay supporters to the University Union’s 1965 Room last week. Directors heard favorable reports on the University and its prospects from Foundation President Lou LeCalsey and Chancellor Tom Harden.