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Business leaders nominated for MMAC board
Published October 10, 2008 - BizTimes Daily
The nominating committee for the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC) has proposed three people to be elected as new members of the organization's board of directors.
The new nominees are:
- Carl Brown, president of Red Brown Kle' Marketing Communications, an advertising and marketing communications agency. A native of Milwaukee, Brown has more than 20 years of experience. He has worked as a marketing consultant for major corporations and managed national efforts for advertising agencies in New York, Chicago and Milwaukee. His clients have included Coca-Cola, Allstate Insurance, Procter and Gamble, Miller Brewing, SuperValu, Harley-Davidson, Cardinal Health, and Abbott Laboratories. Brown is chairman of The Business Council (TBC), a MMAC affiliate organization that advocates on behalf of ethnically diverse businesses in metro Milwaukee. Brown also chairs the group's Supplier Diversity Module, which has helped local ethnically diverse businesses generate $100+ million in contracts with area corporations. Brown has served on a variety of boards and organizations, including the American Association of Advertising Agencies' Multicultural Marketing Committee. He holds bachelor's degrees in journalism and sociology from the University of Wisconsin Madison and a master's degree in advertising from the University of Texas at Austin.
- Jeffrey Joerres, chairman and CEO of Manpower Inc. He joined Manpower in 1993 as VP-Marketing and later served as senior VP of European Operations and Global Account Management. In 1999 he was promoted to president and CEO, and in 2001 he was named chairman of the board. Under Joerres' leadership, Manpower has opened more than 1,000 local offices, expanding to more than 4,500 offices across 80 countries and territories. Since Joerres took the helm, Manpower stock has more than tripled and the company has climbed the ranks of the Fortune 500 list, moving from 183 to 120. Prior to Manpower, Joerres was VP of Sales and Marketing for ARI Network Services. He also held several management positions within IBM. Joerres earned a bachelor's degree from Marquette University's College of Business Administration in 1983. He is a member of the board of directors of Artisan Funds and Johnson Controls. Joerres serves on the board of trustees for the Committee for Economic Development (CED) and is co-chair of the CEO Diversity Committee of the Greater Milwaukee Committee.
- Colin Lancaster, president and chief operating officer of Stark Investments, responsible for the execution of the strategic vision and the overall administration of the firm. In April of 2008, Colin transitioned to this role from the trading desk, where he was a senior portfolio manager on the Global Opportunities team. Lancaster began his career with Stark as general counsel in 2000 and joined the trading desk in 2002 while continuing to serve as general counsel until 2006. Prior to joining Stark, Colin served as general counsel of Knight Financial Products and its asset management subsidiary, Deephaven Capital. Colin earned his law degree, summa cum laude, from Marquette University School of Law (1993), where he served as editor-in-chief of the Marquette Law Review. Colin holds a bachelor of arts from Princeton University (1990).
The following directors are up for re-election for a second three-year term on the MMAC board: Tina Chang, SysLogic Inc.; Gerardo Gonzalez, Gonzalez, Saggio & Harlan LLP; James Popp, Chase-Wisconsin/Minnesota; Michael Russek, Astronautics Corp. of America; Mark Vachon, GE Healthcare; and James Ziemer, Harley-Davidson Inc.
The MMAC board will consider the nominations at its meeting on Monday, Oct. 27.
