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Fintech founder; former MayStreet CEO; energy-tech founder · Waukesha, Wisconsin
MayStreet co-founder and former CEO (market-data / low-latency trading tech), later LSEG head of low latency and direct feeds, now Ground Floor Energy founder. Not Patrick S. Flannery (ex-AMSC Pewaukee / UW–Madison ECE). Not Kentucky Rep. Patrick Flannery.
$20 million+
Patrick Flannery built MayStreet into a specialist market-data and low-latency trading-technology firm that banks, hedge funds, and regulators came to rely on. He co-founded the New York company in 2012 with Michael Lehr after engineering roles at proprietary shops including Volant Trading and Sumo Capital, expanding from feed-handler libraries into pristine packet-capture historical data. London Stock Exchange Group agreed to buy MayStreet in 2022. Flannery stayed on as global head of LSEG's low-latency and direct-feed business, then launched Ground Floor Energy, a climate-tech and project-finance venture combining batteries, renewables, and software. He studied computer science at the University of Colorado Boulder and long worked from the greater New York markets orbit. Waukesha is the Wisconsin city on his page. Public professional footprints put him in New York markets and later London rather than a published Waukesha residence.
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Managing Director, litigation finance (patent underwriting) · Brookfield, Wisconsin
Christopher (Chris) Freeman, Managing Director in Burford Capital's Chicago patent group; former Blackbird Technologies co-founder/VP Head of Litigation; ex-Kirkland & Ellis IP partner. Not Prentice L. Freeman Jr. (P.L. Freeman Co., Brookfield HVAC).
$3 million+
Christopher Freeman underwrites patent and intellectual-property legal risk as a managing director in Burford Capital's Chicago office. Chambers ranks him in U.S. litigation funding for IP, and IAM has listed him among the world's leading IP strategists for several consecutive years. Before Burford he co-founded Blackbird Technologies and ran its litigation function, after an IP partnership at Kirkland & Ellis and associate roles at Quinn Emanuel and Latham & Watkins. He holds a Northwestern engineering degree and a Boston University J.D. Public bios also note pre-law work at Epic Systems in Wisconsin. Brookfield is the Wisconsin city on his page. The documented Wisconsin chapter is Epic Systems before law school, with Chicago as his recent Burford base.
Entrepreneur; founder of Ranku and Cluster · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Wisconsin-raised entrepreneur (Madison-born, Milwaukee roots); former Milwaukee Bucks dancer; co-founded Ranku (Mark Cuban–backed, sold to Wiley) and founded Cluster. Not Kimberly Taylor, Pathways High school director in Milwaukee.
$5 million+
Kim Taylor is a Wisconsin-raised entrepreneur who turned Milwaukee roots and a Bucks dance season into a national startup career. Born in Madison and schooled in part at Marquette before finishing a journalism degree at Arizona State, she appeared on Bravo's Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, then co-founded Ranku—an online-degree marketplace backed by Mark Cuban—and sold it to John Wiley & Sons in 2016 for a reported $25 million. She later founded Cluster, a labor marketplace matching hardware and manufacturing companies with engineers, raising a Mark Cuban–backed seed round and operating from the Los Angeles area. Public profiles emphasize growing up around Wisconsin manufacturing and returning to that industrial skills-gap story with Cluster. Milwaukee remains the origin city on her Wisconsin page: early career, Bucks season, and the manufacturing culture that shaped Cluster, even as her recent operating base has been California.
Former President/CEO of The Onion; media executive and investor · Waukesha, Wisconsin
Former Onion/Gizmodo-group president; hometown Waukesha. Not Brendan Lee McAvoy (Waukesha attorney), not Michael J. McAvoy DO (Appleton ENT), not Eau Claire/McDonough sales Mike McAvoy.
$3 million+
Mike McAvoy grew up in Waukesha and went on to run one of America's best-known satire brands. After early finance work at TCF Bank and Capella Education in Minneapolis, he joined The Onion as controller in the mid-2000s, rose to CFO and COO, and became president—and later CEO—of Onion, Inc. Under his watch the company leaned hard into digital products and video as print advertising faded, culminating in the decision to end the print edition. When Univision sold Gizmodo Media Group and The Onion into what became G/O Media, McAvoy continued leading commercial and Onion operations until he departed in July 2019. Since then he has worked as a Chicago-area self-employed executive and investor, including involvement in comedy and entertainment assets such as the 2022 UCB Theatre acquisition and a 2023 stake in Abso Lutely Productions. Waukesha remains the Wisconsin hometown he has publicly claimed.
Chief Growth Officer and Partner, insurance brokerage · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
M3 Insurance CGO/partner; husband of country singer Katrina Elam; Pewaukee resident. Not Dr. Nezih Z. Hasanoglu, DO (family medicine, New Berlin).
$5 million+
Nezih Hasanoglu Jr. is the chief growth officer and a partner at Wisconsin insurance brokerage M3 Insurance, where he steers business development, marketing, and mergers and acquisitions. He joined M3 in 2004 after earning a bachelor's degree at Vanderbilt University, where he also played football, and later completed an MBA at the Wisconsin School of Business. Named a partner in 2013, he rose to executive vice president of business development in 2020 and to chief growth officer in 2022. He sits on M3's executive leadership team and holds Wisconsin life/health and property/casualty licenses. Beyond the firm he serves on the Zoological Society of Milwaukee board—receiving its 2026 Emu Egg Award—and on boards including First Business Bank's Milwaukee advisory board and the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. He and his wife, Katrina, have co-chaired Milwaukee's Zoo Ball; their family is tied to Pewaukee, where a son has played high school baseball.
Criminal defense attorney; partner · Waukesha, Wisconsin
Waukesha-raised criminal defense partner at Kuchler & Cotton; Super Lawyers.
$2 million+
Tony Cotton is a Waukesha-raised criminal defense lawyer whose high-profile Wisconsin cases keep him on local news. A partner at Kuchler & Cotton S.C.—the firm his mother, Donna Kuchler, leads—he practices from Wauwatosa and Waukesha offices and takes appointments statewide and in federal court. Born and raised in Waukesha, he attended Catholic Memorial High School, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Marquette University Law School (J.D. 2005). While in law school he investigated Eritrean war claims for a Yale professor, clerked for the Federal Defender's Office, and helped prepare arguments connected to United States v. Booker. He has represented Morgan Geyser in the Slender Man stabbing case and later Maxwell Anderson in the Sade Robinson homicide case, among many other felony and federal matters. A past president of the Wisconsin Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and a National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers board member, he has been named a Super Lawyer every year since 2014 after Rising Star honors from 2008–2013.
Title insurance executive (VP); former college baseball pitcher · Watertown, Wisconsin
Watertown HS / UW–Milwaukee baseball alum (Brewers draft); VP of EnTrust Title Group alongside Jeff Oiler.
$1 million+
Mike Oiler is part of a Watertown baseball family that later built a multi-state title business. A right-handed pitcher out of Watertown High School and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, he was drafted twice by the Milwaukee Brewers—in the 52nd round in 1997 and the 35th round in 2000. Corporate records list Michael Oiler as a vice president of EnTrust Title Group, Inc., the independent title and closing company founded by Jeff Oiler. The firm runs Wisconsin offices including Watertown and a Brookfield corporate headquarters, and markets itself among the larger independent title agencies nationally. Watertown is the family hometown and the site of EnTrust's local chamber presence, even as corporate filings point to Brookfield.
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