Catherine Jacobson, CEO of Froedtert ThedaCare Health will be the featured speaker at the next Cap Times Power Hour on Friday, April 12, at the Edgewater Hotel.
Froedtert ThedaCare Health is composed of two Wisconsin health care systems — Froedtert Health and ThedaCare — which merged on Jan. 1. Jacobson led the merger effort and she will be the CEO of the combined organization for the next six months. The combined company will serve the greater Milwaukee area as well as the Appleton area, where ThedaCare was based.
Jacobson joined Froedtert Health in 2010 as executive vice president of finance and strategy, chief financial officer and chief strategy officer. She assumed the CEO role in 2012. Prior to joining Froedtert Health, she spent 22 years at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago in various leadership roles.
Previous speakers in the Power Hour series, which is sponsored by UBS, Newcomb Construction Bergstrom Cadillac of Madison and Godfrey & Kahn, were Aaron Jagdfeld of Generac Power Systems, Greg Piefer of SHINE Technologies, Greg Marcus of The Marcus Corporation, Mark Skogen of Festival Foods, John Pfeifer of Oshkosh Corp. and Kenneth Bockhorst of Badger Meter.
The moderator for the speaker series is Mark Richardson, president of Unfinished Business Consulting and CEO of GigBlender. Richardson has helped professionals evolve in their careers and helped organizations acquire talent of color for the past 10 years.
The April 12 event featuring Jacobson will be in the Grand Ballroom at The Edgewater Hotel, 1001 Wisconsin Place.
Doors will open 7 a.m. to allow time for coffee and networking. The conversation itself will run one hour and will start at 8 a.m. Tickets are on sale now, click here.
Admission is $37 for a single ticket, which includes a full breakfast, or $260 for a table of eight. Cap Times members can get individual discounted tickets for $22.
