
This episode features an interview with Christine Specht, CEO of Cousins Submarine, as part of Womens Entrepreneurship Week. This interview originally took place on May 14th, 2023
Meet the Masters is an interview series that highlights entrepreneurs, business owners, and CEOs and their successful expansions and stories of growth.
This series is presented by Scale Up Milwaukee, an initiative of the greater Milwaukee committee, whose focus is on transforming the culture of growth in the region. Scale Up does this by hosting impactful events and business accelerators designed to infuse growth into every corner and help spread inclusive economic prosperity.
Find out more about Scale Up at scaleupmilwaukee.org
Video of the interview can be viewed at https://youtu.be/oML9jOPSDp8
May 17, 2023
56 min

This episode features an interview with Cory Nettles, the Managing Director of Generation Growth Capital, Inc., a private equity fund focused on buyouts and providing growth capital to small businesses and lower-middle market companies in the upper Midwest. This interview originally took place on January 11th, 2023
Meet the Masters is an interview series that highlights entrepreneurs, business owners, and CEOs and their successful expansions and stories of growth.
This series is presented by Scale Up Milwaukee, an initiative of the greater Milwaukee committee, whose focus is on transforming the culture of growth in the region. Scale Up does this by hosting impactful events and business accelerators designed to infuse growth into every corner and help spread inclusive economic prosperity.
Find out more about Scale Up at scaleupmilwaukee.org
Video of the interview can be viewed at https://youtu.be/nczeZGO-Kbo
Jan 12, 2023
1 hr 6 min

This episode features an interview with Scott Lurie. CEO and Owner of F Street Group. Whose focus continues to be on finding opportunities that maximize returns and wealth creation. F Street group invests and maintains ownership stakes in businesses across a number of verticals, including housing, lending, real estate development, and hospitality.
This interview originally took place on January 12th, 2020
Meet the Masters is an interview series that highlights entrepreneurs, business owners, and CEOs and their successful expansions and stories of growth.
This series is presented by Scale Up Milwaukee, an initiative of the greater Milwaukee committee, whose focus is on transforming the culture of growth in the region. Scale Up does this by hosting impactful events and business accelerators designed to infuse growth into every corner and help spread inclusive economic prosperity.
Find out more about Scale Up at scaleupmilwaukee.org
Video of the interview can be viewed at https://youtu.be/q-Uzzr6j8QE
Jul 26, 2022
48 min

This episode features an interview with Dr. Debbie Allen, President, and CEO of DNA Network. Specializing in coaching, educating, and honing the skills of executive leaders of small businesses in areas of Leadership, Human Resources, and Organizational/Infrastructural Development.
This interview originally took place on March 25th, 2018
Meet the Masters is an interview series that highlights entrepreneurs, business owners, and CEOs and their successful expansions and stories of growth.
This series is presented by Scale Up Milwaukee, an initiative of the greater Milwaukee committee, whose focus is on transforming the culture of growth in the region. Scale Up does this by hosting impactful events and business accelerators designed to infuse growth into every corner and help spread inclusive economic prosperity.
Find out more about Scale Up at scaleupmilwaukee.org
Video of the interview can be viewed at https://youtu.be/7qKRDOy3vmA
Jul 21, 2022
43 min

This episode features an interview with Matt Ziegler, President and Co-Founder of ZMac Transportation.
This interview originally took place on May 25th, 2022
Meet the Masters is an interview series that highlights entrepreneurs, business owners, and CEOs and their successful expansions and stories of growth.
This series is presented by Scale Up Milwaukee, an initiative of the greater Milwaukee committee, whose focus is on transforming the culture of growth in the region. Scale Up does this by hosting impactful events and business accelerators designed to infuse growth into every corner and help spread inclusive economic prosperity.
Find out more about Scale Up at scaleupmilwaukee.org
Video of the interview can be viewed at https://youtu.be/Ia4wCDlWRf0
May 30, 2022
1 hr 1 min

This episode features an interview with Ted Kellner. Founder and portfolio manager with Fiduciary Management Inc.
Meet the Masters is an interview series that highlights entrepreneurs, business owners, and CEOs and their successful expansions and stories of growth.
This series is presented by Scale Up Milwaukee, an initiative of the greater Milwaukee committee, whose focus is on transforming the culture of growth in the region. Scale Up does this by hosting impactful events and business accelerators designed to infuse growth into every corner and help spread inclusive economic prosperity.
Find out more about Scale Up at scaleupmilwaukee.org
This interview originally took place on April 22 2018
Video of this interview can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/t5wWIxiAdkI
May 13, 2022
43 min

This episode features an interview with Peggy Coakley. President and CEO of Coakley Brothers
Meet the Masters is an interview series that highlights entrepreneurs, business owners, and CEOs and their successful expansions and stories of growth.
This series is presented by Scale Up Milwaukee, an initiative of the greater Milwaukee committee, whose focus is on transforming the culture of growth in the region. Scale Up does this by hosting impactful events and business accelerators designed to infuse growth into every corner and help spread inclusive economic prosperity.
Find out more about Scale Up at scaleupmilwaukee.org
This interview originally took place on February 13, 2019
Video of the interview can be found here: https://youtu.be/qYfY-cN0jkA
May 13, 2022
52 min

This episode features an interview with Ulice Payne Jr, President of Addison-Clifton.
Meet the Masters is an interview series that highlights entrepreneurs, business owners, and CEOs and their successful expansions and stories of growth.
This series is presented by Scale Up Milwaukee, an initiative of the greater Milwaukee committee, whose focus is on transforming the culture of growth in the region. Scale Up does this by hosting impactful events and business accelerators designed to infuse growth into every corner and help spread inclusive economic prosperity.
Find out more about Scale Up at scaleupmilwaukee.org
This interview originally took place on October 15, 2017
Video of this interview can be found here: https://youtu.be/UdVghSY9bJ8
May 6, 2022
44 min

This episode features an interview with Stephen Marcus and Gregory Marcus. Chairman and CEO of The Marcus Corporation. a Milwaukee-based company that is a leader in lodging and entertainment. We'll learn how over two generations of leadership, Marcus Corporation became the region's leader in entertainment and lodging.
Meet the Masters is an interview series that highlights entrepreneurs, business owners, and CEOs and their successful expansions and stories of growth.
This series is presented by Scale Up Milwaukee, an initiative of the greater Milwaukee committee, whose focus is on transforming the culture of growth in the region. Scale Up does this by hosting impactful events and business accelerators designed to infuse growth into every corner and help spread inclusive economic prosperity.
Find out more about Scale Up at scaleupmilwaukee.org
This interview originally took place on November 1, 2016
Video of the interview can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/4rvLf2hIQew
May 6, 2022
44 min

This episode features an interview with Amanda Baltz, CEO of Spaulding Medical. After completing Scale Up Milwaukee's first cohort of Growth Accelerator over five years ago with Spaulding Clinical, Amanda formed a spin-off company name Spaulding Medical. She is a Milwaukee business journal 40 under 40 participant and we hear her story from accelerator to master.
Meet the Masters is an interview series that highlights entrepreneurs, business owners, and CEOs and their successful expansions and stories of growth.
This series is presented by Scale Up Milwaukee, an initiative of the greater Milwaukee committee, whose focus is on transforming the culture of growth in the region. Scale Up does this by hosting impactful events and business accelerators designed to infuse growth into every corner and help spread inclusive economic prosperity.
Find out more about Scale Up at scaleupmilwaukee.org
This interview originally took place on March 14, 2019
Video of this interview can be found here: https://youtu.be/GEMGo5D0yys
May 6, 2022
52 min
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