WisBusiness: The Show – WEA Trust President/CEO Mark Moody

Welcome to a new episode of “WisBusiness: The Show,” a twice-a-month Web show covering state business news and issues.

In this episode, Tom Still talks about the Wisconsin YES! contest, which he calls a great opportunity for middle and high school students to earn entrepreneurship experience. Then, WEA Trust’s Mark Moody talks about the history of his non-profit insurance organization and its involvement in the Wisconsin YES! program.

The show is produced by Tweedee Productions of Madison and sponsored by GrantThornton, Madison Gas & Electric, Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. and UW-Milwaukee.

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Webcast Partners: Wisconsin Technology Council | Tweedee Productions

EPISODE ARCHIVE:

– Feature interview: Mike Theo, president and CEO of the Wisconsin Realtors Association

– Feature interview: Kay Koplovitz, chair of Springboard Enterprises

– Feature interview: Quintessence Biosciences CEO Ralph Kauten

– Feature interview: Aquamost CEO Todd Asmuth

– Feature interview: TEAM Companies’ Mike Wicker

– Feature interview: Eric Girard from Van Holten’s pickles

– Feature interview: NanoOncology CEO Tom Primiano

– Feature interview: AT&T Wisconsin’s Scott VanderSanden

– Feature interview: Veteran Entrepreneurial Transfer’s Ted Lasser

– Feature interview: LIVEyearbook President Don Noskowiak

– Feature interview: Kauffman Foundation’s Tim Kane

– Feature interview: Zurex Pharma President & CEO Carmine Durham

– Feature interview: WMC President Kurt Bauer

– Feature interview: Greg Meier, The Talent Lab

– Feature interview: Zach Brandon, Wisconsin Angel Network

– Feature interview: Departing WMC President Jim Haney

– Feature interview: Doug Nelson, M&I Bank

– Feature interview: Rod HIse, The Luminis Group

– Feature interview: Zack Robbins of the Morgridge Institute for Research

– Feature interview: Dept. of Commerce Secretary Paul Jadin

– Feature interview: Thad Nation, executive director of Wired Wisconsin

– Feature interview: Mark Bugher, director of University Research Park

– Feature interview: Paul Carbone, managing director of R.W. Baird

– Feature interview: Winslow Sargeant of the Small Business Administration

– Feature interview: David Jones Jr. of Chrysalis Ventures

– Feature interview: Early Stage Symposium keynote speaker Bill Joos

– Feature interview: TDS President and CEO Dave Wittwer

– Feature interview: Brian Thompson, president of UWM Research Foundation

– Feature interview: John Neis, managing director of Venture Investors

– Feature interview: Biolonix president Jim Tretheway

– Feature interview: Mark Underwood, the president of Quincy Bioscience

– Feature interview: Bryan Renk of BioFoward

– Feature interview: Phoenix Nuclear’s Greg Piefer

– Feature interview: Jeff Madden, construction executive for Mortenson Construction

– Feature interview: Lee Edwards, CEO of Virent Systems

– Feature interview: Sean Baxter, Kayser Automotive Group

– Feature interview: Jim Haney of WMC

– Feature interview: Joe Kremer, director of the Wisconsin Angel Network

– Feature interview: Charlie Hoslet, managing director of the Office of Corporate Relations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

– Feature interview: Dr. Sang Kim of the Morgridge Institute for Research

– Feature interview: Katina Kravik, CEO of Northwire Technical Cable, Inc.

– Feature interview: Compact Particle Acceleration Corporation CEO Shawn Guse

– Feature interview: HarQen CEO Kelly Fitzsimmons

– Feature interview: state Commerce Secretary and beer entrepreneur Dick Leinenkugel

– Feature interview: Kevin Conroy, president and CEO of Exact Sciences

– Feature interview: Bill Malkasian, president of the Wisconsin Realtors Association

– Feature interview: Rod Hise, president of the Luminis Group

– Feature interview: Kurt Bauer, President of the Wisconsin Bankers Association.

– Feature interview: Teresa Esser, managing director of Silicon Pastures.

– Feature interview: Bill McCoshen of Competitive Wisconsin.

– Feature interview: Scott Vander Sanden, President of AT&T in Wisconsin.

– Feature interview: Tim Keane, director of the Marquette Golden Angels Network.

– Feature interview: Toni Sikes, Senior Adviser with Gruppo Levey and Company

– Feature interview: Jim Haney of WMC

– See the late September pilot featuring University Research Park Director Mark Bugher