WFAA Board of Directors
The Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association is governed by the members of its Board of Directors. Each director holds office for a three-year term and may serve up to four consecutive terms. Ex-officio members include all former, living board chairs.
Board Members
Michael S. Shannon - Chair
KSL Capital Partners
Paul S. Shain - Vice Chair
President and CEO, Singlewire Software
Linda L. Ahlers
Retired President, Marshall Field’s
Rajiv Batra
Michelle A. Behnke
Principal, Michelle Behnke & Associates
Susan J. Cellmer
Jerome A. Chazen
Chazen Capital Partners, LLC
Suzanne DeWolf
Co-Owner, Lil’ Drug Store Products
Co-Owner, ForeFold Ventures
Jeffrey J. Diermeier
Chair, Financial Accounting Foundation
Sonnet Edmonds
Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Southern Power Company
Susan S. Engeleiter
Data Recognition Corporation
Curtis J. Fuszard
Executive Director, REACH-A-Child
Colleen A. Goggins
Jon D. Hammes
Chair and CEO, Hammes Company, LLC
Elizabeth Quadracci Harned
Elzie L. Higginbottom
Louis A. Holland
President, Cumota, LLC
John P. Holton
William P. Hsu
Vice President of Operations and Farmer, Hsu’s Ginseng Enterprises, Inc. and Hsu Ginseng Farms, LLP
Cynthia Ihlenfeld
Past Organizations include 3M, Ecolab
Peter S. Kies
Head of Equity Capital Markets, Head of Technology & Services Banking,
Robert W. Baird & Co.
Peter A. Leidel
Partner, Yorktown Partners, LLC
Thomas P. Madsen
Jane R. Mandula
Owner and Investor, Far Far Away, LLC
Karen A. Monfre
Partner, Wipfli LLP and Managing Director Wipfli Corporate Finance
Lorna Nagler
John S. Nelson
Managing Director and adjunct Professor, Global Infrastructure Asset Management, UW-Madison Civil Engineering
Cory L. Nettles
Susan S. Patterson
Senior Vice President/Art Director, J. Walter Thompson
Stephen R. Petersen
Managing Director, Seaward Management
Linda L. Procci
Retired Vice President of Operations, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Todd C. Pulvino, Ph.D.
Principal and Co-Founder, CNH Partners
Frederick A. Robertson
Venture Partner, Baird Capital, RW Baird
Laureen E. Seeger
Executive Vice President and General Counsel, American Express Company
Michael R. Splinter
Thomas Stevens
Chair and CEO, Los Angeles Capital Management
Patrick Thiele
James Thompson
Former President, Cargill, Inc.
Jeffrey D. Wiesner
Retired Partner, Accenture
Ex Officio Members
Paul J. Collins
Ex-Officio Member
Retired Vice Chair, Citigroup
Jere D. Fluno
Ex-Officio Member
Ted D. Kellner
Ex-Officio Member
Michael M. Knetter
Ex-Officio Member
President and CEO, Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association
John J. Oros
Ex-Officio Member
Managing Director, JC Flowers & Co.
Frances S. Taylor
Ex-Officio Member
Retired, Bank of America
