112 files on the desk from Pewaukee, Wisconsin. 112 carry a net-worth figure.
Owner and general dentist · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Afshin "AJ" Hamedi, DDS, president/owner of Healthy Smiles Dental Care, S.C., in Pewaukee since 1998. Lives Brookfield. Not Timothy Wall (Wall Family Dentistry) or Todd Rasch (orthodontics).
$1.5 million+
Afshin "AJ" Hamedi, DDS, has practiced general dentistry at his Pewaukee office since 1998 under Healthy Smiles Dental Care, S.C.—also branded My Pewaukee Dentist. A Wisconsin native, he completed undergraduate work at UW–Milwaukee and earned his dental degree from Marquette University School of Dentistry in 1992, then built a Milwaukee–Waukesha-area career that settled into the current Pewaukee office.
NPI and first-party materials identify him as the practice principal; the office team pages emphasize long-tenured hygienists and assistants and a family-style patient culture. Hamedi lives in Brookfield with his wife Cari and their children, so the Pewaukee claim is the practice address and nearly three decades of continuous local ownership rather than a lake-country residence story.
Ownership and continuity are strong; consumer-press and magazine depth remain thinner than specialty dental peers. Long-tenured Pewaukee general-practice ownership since 1998 still makes him a publishable independent dental principal, with an honest medium-confidence flag that the desk should keep visible.
Co-owner, bakery and coffee shop · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Alexis McCourt, co-owner with Nathan (Nate) McCourt of Turkey & The Toad Café and Cakery at 161 W. Wisconsin Avenue #1G, Pewaukee. The couple took over Beach Bum Bakery in fall 2025 and rebranded. Not Nathan McCourt (co-owner).
$400,000
Alexis McCourt co-owns Turkey & The Toad, the downtown Pewaukee café and cakery she and Nathan McCourt opened after taking over Beach Bum Bakery in fall 2025. The Freeman's May 16, 2026 profile by Katherine Beck places the remodeled shop at 161 W. Wisconsin Avenue across from Lakefront Beach and says the couple kept weekend doughnuts, Sunday hot ham and rolls, and the same cake decorator while adding savory breakfast items and Anodyne Coffee.
The name nods to the childhood Frog and Toad books without using that trademark, swapping in a Wisconsin turkey. Nate McCourt told the Freeman both grew up on lakes and wanted a Lake Country vibe; first-party copy markets giant cookies, muffins, weekend doughnuts and Sunday ham-and-rolls from the #1G storefront. Alexis's LinkedIn lists her as co-owner and operator from October 2025.
Co-owner of a single Pewaukee lakeside bakery-café with a documented 2025 handoff, a 2026 Freeman rebrand story and a published Wisconsin Avenue address makes McCourt the named public principal on this slate. Nathan is the other owner. First-party pages publish a shop phone, not a person-tied work email.
President, partner and financial advisor, fee-only wealth-management firm · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Andrea Bulen (Andrea Margaret-Swansby Bulen), CFP®, president and partner at Pewaukee-based Shakespeare Wealth Management since January 2024. Distinct from founder/CEO Kevin Reardon (already covered on site in PEWAUKEE-PROS-10). Do not conflate sitting president/partner Bulen with founder Reardon—parallel to Karolek/Goetz at TLX.
$2 million+
Andrea Bulen is president and partner at Shakespeare Wealth Management, the Pewaukee fee-only fiduciary firm Kevin Reardon founded a quarter-century ago. She became a CFP® in 2009, joined Shakespeare as an advisor in 2013, and was promoted to president and partner on January 2, 2024, as the firm marked its 25th anniversary.
Shakespeare focuses on high-net-worth households with investable assets of $1 million or more from its Pewaukee office. Reardon publicly credited Bulen’s evolving leadership with helping the firm navigate markets, technology and day-to-day management while she continues active client work. She is a member of the Financial Planning Association, NAPFA and the Fee Only Network.
Bulen is a distinct equity partner and sitting president with her own dated promotion announcement—not a second pass at the founder. When the desk wants Shakespeare’s operating president rather than another profile of Reardon, she is the clear principal for this Pewaukee wealth-management chapter.
CEO and owner, residential home-technology integrator · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Andrew Scheler, Pewaukee-based CEO and owner of Artisan Home Technologies (the rebranded residential division of Automation Arts). Not other integrators named Scheler.
$550,000
Andrew Scheler is CEO and owner of Artisan Home Technologies, the luxury residential technology integrator whose first-party site publishes a Greater Milwaukee shop at W226N887 Eastmound Dr, Suite C, Waukesha, WI 53186, phone (262) 956-2195, a Madison showroom at 4001 Felland Rd, Suite 111, Madison, WI 53718, and a general info inbox. His professional profile lists the CEO/owner role from January 2024 in Pewaukee.
A January 2024 post said he purchased the residential division of Automation Arts, the 1992-founded technology brand; a December 10, 2024 follow-up said the rebrand from Automation Arts Home to Artisan Home Technologies had been in the works most of the year and would finish in early 2025 with a new website. A May 2025 post announced the acquisition of Elite AV & Automation in Madison. First-party service copy covers Greater Milwaukee and Greater Madison, with travel to Green Bay, Lake Geneva, Chicago and secondary homes out of state.
Named CEO-owner of a single Pewaukee-rooted residential-tech shop with a documented 2024 residential-division purchase and a published Eastmound Drive lock makes Scheler the integrator principal on this slate. Work email locked from the Apollo-first pass.
President, furniture retailer (ESOP) · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Andrew Steinhafel, fourth-generation president of Pewaukee-tagged Steinhafels Furniture (ESOP since 2020/2021). Not Gregg W. Steinhafel (former Target CEO, already in seed as gregg-w-steinhafel). Not Gary, Mark, or Ellen Steinhafel-Lappe (other family executives).
$4 million+
Andrew Steinhafel is the fourth-generation president of Steinhafels, the Lake Country furniture retailer BizTimes tags under Pewaukee among Wisconsin's most influential business leaders. He took the president role in 2021 after directing IT from 2013 and adding a vice-president title in 2018, following earlier software-engineering work at PowerInbox in Cambridge and Code Red Software.
Under his watch the Steinhafel family sold all company stock into an employee stock ownership plan, making Steinhafels 100% employee-owned while remaining family-led. Wisconsin 275 profiles cite about 720 employees and a store footprint of ten Wisconsin locations, six in Illinois, and one in Indiana, with a 2025 Merrillville opening extending the Midwest map.
Steinhafel holds a bachelor's from Boston College and a master's from UW–Madison. The corporate campus and flagship superstore sit in the I-94 Lake Country corridor—press-tagged Pewaukee even as the formal mailing uses a Waukesha ZIP—keeping the firm's public identity on the Pewaukee city page he leads.
Vice president and co-owner, custom home builder · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Ann Rodrigues, vice president/owner and 1985 co-founder with husband David A. Rodrigues, Jr. of Pewaukee-based David & Goliath Builders and DG Remodeling at 1177 Quail Court, Suite 100. Not David Rodrigues (co-owner).
$2 million+
Ann Rodrigues is vice president and co-owner of David & Goliath Builders and DG Remodeling, the Pewaukee custom-home and remodeling shop she jointly founded with her husband, David A. Rodrigues, Jr., in 1985. First-party team copy says she oversees operations and marketing, works selections and design, holds Wisconsin contractor license #1068229, and is a certified construction professional and master builder. The office and selection center sit at 1177 Quail Court, Suite 100, Pewaukee, WI 53072, phone 262-691-8841.
Her professional profile dates the vice-president/owner title to May 1985 after a bachelor's in mass communications and marketing, and says she served as Metropolitan Builders Association of Greater Milwaukee president in 2009 with additional Wisconsin Builders Association and NAHB board work. Selection-center copy quotes her on in-house material selections so clients skip multiple showrooms.
Co-founder-owner of a single Pewaukee design-build firm with a documented 1985 start and a published Quail Court suite makes Rodrigues the builder principal on this slate. David is the other owner. Work email locked from the Apollo-first pass.
Owner and obstetrician-gynecologist, independent women's-health practice · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Anthony Hoang, MD, board-certified OB-GYN who opened his independent Pewaukee practice (Anthony Hoang MD SC) in January 2018. Not a ProHealth-employed clinic physician as the primary story—practice is his own SC.
$1.5 million+
Anthony Hoang, MD, opened Anthony Hoang MD SC in Pewaukee in January 2018 after more than 25 years in obstetric and gynecologic care. Board-certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, he markets an independent, relationship-driven model—advanced minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery, urogynecology and pelvic-floor disorders, pelvic pain and endometriosis—built around longer visits and continuity across life stages and generations of the same families.
The Pewaukee office anchors a small clinical team—patient coordinators, RN support and an operations manager who has worked with him since 2002—rather than a multi-site health-system brand. Hoang is a member of the Wisconsin and Waukesha County Medical Societies and keeps hospital and lab affiliations published for patients navigating insurance.
Owner-operated specialty practice, a documented 2018 launch and an unambiguous Village/City Pewaukee office lock him as an independent physician principal rather than a health-system employee. Hospital affiliations stay secondary to the SC he opened and still runs for his own patients.
Founder and owner, residential remodeling contractor · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Anton Hilsenbeck, founder and owner of Pewaukee-based Platinum Renovations LLC (rebranded 2023 from Hilsenbeck Roofing & Construction). Wife Heidi is office manager/operations. Not other U.S. remodelers named Hilsenbeck.
$1 million+
Anton Hilsenbeck is founder and owner of Platinum Renovations, the Pewaukee residential remodeling shop first-party about copy traces from a 1999 first company (Homemade by Hilsenbeck) through a 2005 Wisconsin move and Hilsenbeck Roofing & Construction to a 2023 rebrand focused on mid- to large-scale interior remodeling. The team page calls him founder and owner and the on-site lead on construction and craftsmanship, with 30-plus years in the trade.
BBB lists Platinum Renovations LLC / Hilsenbeck Roofing & Construction, LLC at 1256 Capitol Dr Ste 700-121, Pewaukee, WI 53072, founding date February 1, 2005, phone (262) 326-0207, with Mr. Anton Hilsenbeck as owner and Heidi Hilsenbeck as office manager. First-party service copy covers kitchens, baths, interiors and larger renovations across Waukesha County and Lake Country. The homepage says the firm recently closed on a new Pewaukee property for a future office, meeting space and design center; that street is not used here.
Owner of a single Pewaukee remodeler with a documented 2005 Wisconsin start, a 2023 rename and a BBB Capitol Drive suite lock makes Hilsenbeck the remodeling principal. Work email locked from the Apollo-first pass.
Owner and doctor of chiropractic · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Ben Rodrigues, D.C., owner of Pewaukee-based Align the Spine Chiropractic, LLC at 1177 Quail Court, Suite 103. Distinct from Ann Rodrigues, vice president and co-owner of David & Goliath Builders in Suite 100 of the same Quail Court building. Not other U.S. chiropractors named Rodrigues.
$400,000
Ben Rodrigues owns Align the Spine Chiropractic, the Pewaukee clinic first-party pages identify him as doctor of chiropractic serving Waukesha County. Homepage and team copy publish Align the Spine Chiropractic, LLC at 1177 Quail Court, Suite 103, Pewaukee, WI 53072, phone 262-737-6030, and name older sister Valerie Czekalski as office manager. His professional profile lists him as chiropractor owner from March 2021 in Pewaukee.
A first-party Pewaukee chiropractors page says he and Valerie grew up in Pewaukee, that he graduated Pewaukee High School in 2010, earned a UW–Milwaukee kinesiology B.S. in 2015, and received a Doctor of Chiropractic from Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport in 2020 after a proctorship with Dr. Sherri Augustine at Mequon Chiropractic. The same page says he is back in his hometown. This is a different Rodrigues from Ann Rodrigues of David & Goliath Builders, already on the slate at 1177 Quail Court, Suite 100.
Named owner-D.C. of a single Pewaukee Quail Court Suite 103 clinic with a published lock makes Ben Rodrigues the Align principal on this slate. Ann Rodrigues remains the builder principal in Suite 100. Work email locked from the Apollo-first pass.
Global CEO, marine hardware and safety/rescue manufacturer (ESOP) · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Bill Goggins, global CEO of Pewaukee-headquartered Harken Inc. (100% ESOP). Joined 1999; U.S. president 2009; global CEO 2020. Not founder Peter Harken or late co-founder Olaf Harken; not Matt Malec (named president July 2025).
$2 million+
Bill Goggins leads Harken, the Pewaukee manufacturer whose sailboat hardware and expanding safety-and-rescue lines are distributed in dozens of countries. He cold-called the firm on April Fool's Day 1999, rose to U.S. president in 2009, and was named global CEO in 2020 as the company prepared its employee-ownership transition.
In September 2020 the Harken family sold the business to U.S. employees through an ESOP; Goggins said it would always be Peter and Olaf Harken's company but was thereafter in employee care. Public reporting put worldwide headcount near 400 at the ESOP announcement. The Pewaukee campus houses U.S. production and corporate headquarters after the firm consolidated out of older local space.
Harken gear remains a fixture of America's Cup, Ocean Race, and Olympic campaigns, while industrial and rope-access acquisitions have pushed the brand beyond yachting. Goggins' public interviews stress culture criteria that steered the family away from private-equity suitors toward employee ownership.
Owner, real estate brokerage · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Bob (Robert J.) Koepp, third-generation owner of family-owned Koepp Realty at 104 W. Wisconsin Avenue, downtown Pewaukee. Firm dated to 1946. Not other Wisconsin agents named Koepp.
$1 million+
Bob Koepp is the third-generation owner of Koepp Realty, the downtown Pewaukee brokerage first-party about copy says has operated since 1946 and still sits within 1,000 feet of the original shop. The firm markets Waukesha County and Lake Country sales, land, multifamily, lakefront and condos and publishes phone (262) 691-2700. Directories lock the office at 104 W. Wisconsin Avenue, Pewaukee, WI 53072.
His professional profile lists owner from June 1984, a real-estate associate degree from Waukesha County Technical College (1984–1986), and the same third-generation / 1946 family-business line. LeadIQ and company directories still show a two-person Pewaukee shop.
Owner of a single downtown Pewaukee realty with a documented 1946 firm start, a 1984 owner title and a Wisconsin Avenue lock makes Koepp the residential-brokerage principal. Work email locked from the Apollo-first pass.
Co-president and owner, supermarket design firm · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Brad Knab, LEED AP, co-president and owner of Pewaukee-based StoreMasters (formerly Mehmert Store Services) with Chad Ott. Not other U.S. designers named Brad Knab.
$1.5 million+
Brad Knab is co-president and owner of StoreMasters, the Pewaukee supermarket-design, décor, equipment and project-management shop first-party copy dates to 1990 as Mehmert Store Services. The company site lists him with Chad Ott under Meet the Owners and publishes headquarters at N27W23588 Paul Road, Suite 100, Pewaukee, WI 53072, plus a Pittsburgh suite and phone 262-347-0999.
StoreMasters' about timeline says Knab was hired in 2011, became a business partner with Steve and Shelley Mehmert in 2017, and with Ott became the new owners in 2019. On April 1, 2020 the owners relaunched the 30-year firm as StoreMasters. First-party work pages show grocery remodels for Glorioso's, Metcalfe's, Sendik's, Albrecht's Delafield Market and out-of-state independents; the about page cites Progressive Grocer design awards and a 2018 Wisconsin Grocers Association Vendor of the Year. Knab's professional profile lists him as co-president/owner from January 2019 and as a LEED AP.
Co-owner of a single Pewaukee supermarket-architecture firm with a documented 2019 ownership handoff, a 2020 rename and a published Paul Road suite makes Knab the named design principal on this slate. Chad Ott is the other owner. Work email locked from the Apollo-first pass.
Owner and president, custom safety products · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Brad Martell, owner and president of Pewaukee-based Custom Safety Products (csp-1.com), a quoting/proofing/ordering platform for custom PPE. Not other U.S. operators named Brad Martell.
$850,000
Brad Martell owns Custom Safety Products, the Pewaukee custom-safety and PPE quoting shop whose first-party about page publishes N23W28296 Beach Park Circle, Pewaukee, WI 53072. Company copy describes a mix of technologists, industrial distributors and manufacturers built to shorten quoting, proofing, ordering and delivery of custom safety products and personal protection equipment, and lists founder results on lead times, quote hit rate and average order value.
Martell's professional profiles list him as president/owner from 2013–2014 in the Milwaukee area and describe a SaaS platform used by industrial manufacturers and distributors for hard hats, high-visibility apparel, safety signs and glasses. The first-party contact page publishes phone 858-335-6691 and repeats his person-tied work inbox, and also lists N1629 County Road P, Rubicon, WI 53078 — a second published line that is not used as the Pewaukee desk lock.
Owner of a single Pewaukee custom-safety shop with a documented mid-2010s start and a published Beach Park Circle address lock makes Martell the named principal. Work email locked from the Apollo-first pass.
Sports chiropractor (DC, DACBSP, CCEP) · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Sports chiropractor at Chiropractic and Wellness on Pewaukee Lake and NX Level (Waukesha). Not Dr. Christopher Rebholz of The Chiropractors, LLC.
$1 million+
Dr. Bradley Nutting is a sports-focused chiropractor based in Pewaukee at Chiropractic and Wellness on Pewaukee Lake. A Brookfield Central High School, UW–Eau Claire, and Palmer College of Chiropractic graduate from 2008, he came to the field after collegiate wrestling injuries and the performance gains he saw from chiropractic care during his own athletic career.
He holds the Diplomate of the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians and Certified Chiropractic Extremity Practitioner credentials, and clinic materials say he works with athletes from youth through professional levels, including NFL, UFC and MMA, Olympic, and collegiate athletes. Soft-tissue tools in his toolkit include Kinesio tape, active release, and instrument-assisted methods such as Graston.
He also treats by appointment at NX Level Sports Performance in Waukesha, extending the same sports-chiropractic approach beyond the lake clinic. His Pewaukee practice remains entirely separate from The Chiropractors, LLC run by Dr. Christopher Rebholz.
Owner, home décor retail · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Brenda Wistl, owner of Harvest Home, the Pewaukee home-décor shop at 505 Capitol Drive (est. 2001). Not other Wisconsin retailers named Brenda Wistl.
$400,000
Brenda Wistl owns Harvest Home, the Capitol Drive home-décor shop that first-party copy dates to 2001 on a Pewaukee corner. The store markets year-round gifts, floral and home décor, seasonal merchandise, outdoor garden accents, apparel and local lake goods from a former residence broken into merchandised rooms.
A 2018 Lakeshore Living feature said Wistl opened the shop out of a love of retail after lunch-break visits to a store near the Milwaukee Rescue Mission, where she had worked. The Journal Sentinel quoted her in 2016 as owner of Harvest Home at 505 Capitol Drive on fall decorating. Visit Waukesha Pewaukee still lists the shop for décor, vintage finds, paints and seasonal garden goods.
Owner of a single Pewaukee brick-and-mortar décor shop with a documented 2001 start and a current Capitol Drive lock makes Wistl the clear retail principal. First-party materials say the store has no additional social channels and do not publish a person-tied work email.
Owner and sales engineer, carbide cutting-tool manufacturer · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Brian Kilford, owner and sales engineer on the Pewaukee/Waukesha Gorilla Mill (Carbide Grinding Co., Inc.) ownership team with the Cranker and Roberts families. Distinct from sitting president Nathan Cranker. Not other U.S. cutting-tool salespeople named Kilford.
$1.5 million+
Brian Kilford is a named owner and sales engineer at Gorilla Mill, the Pewaukee/Waukesha carbide cutting-tool manufacturer first-party about copy traces to Philipp Laubenstein's 1974 founding of Carbide Grinding Co. in Waukesha. The about page says Kevin and Veronica Cranker bought CGC in 2003 and that the ownership team also includes Nathan Cranker, Hilary and Steve Roberts, and Brian Kilford. First-party contact copy publishes W226 N735 Eastmound Dr., Waukesha, WI 53186, phone 866-888-9600.
BizTimes (November 5, 2025) called Gorilla Mill Pewaukee-based, named Kilford on the ownership team, said Nathan Cranker became president in a third-generation transition, reported more than $20 million in annual sales, and said the firm bought a second building behind its existing Pewaukee plant at that Eastmound Drive lock. First-party November 2025 ownership-transfer copy pictured Kilford with the Cranker and Roberts families. His professional profile lists him as owner/sales engineer from November 2021.
Named owner on a multi-family Pewaukee carbide-tool ownership team with a published Eastmound Drive lock makes Kilford the sales-engineer principal on this slate. Nathan Cranker is the sitting president. Work email locked from the Apollo-first pass.
President and owner, CNC precision turning company · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Brian Yehle, president/owner of Techni-Turn, Inc. in Pewaukee. Company site states he spent 15+ years as production manager at Guhring, Inc. before founding Techni-Turn with his brother. Not other Yehle individuals.
$700,000
Brian Yehle owns and leads Techni-Turn, Inc., a Pewaukee CNC precision turning shop serving greater Milwaukee and national customers. After more than fifteen years as a production manager at cutting-tool maker Guhring, he and his brother launched Techni-Turn to focus on complete parts in a single operation—spools, valves, small-engine and hydraulic components, firearms parts, and other high-spec turned work.
The company emphasizes part consistency, tight tolerances, and partnered finishing such as grinding, coatings, plating, and heat treat. Its shop operates in Pewaukee with weekday production hours published on the company site for customers scheduling precision turning jobs.
Yehle's public identity is tightly bound to the Techni-Turn brand: company pages name him as owner, and local manufacturing directories list him as the decision-maker for the Pewaukee turning center that grew out of his Guhring production career.
Owner, stone fabrication and showroom · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Carl Daley, owner of Pewaukee- and Ixonia-based Designs in Marble LLC. Distinct from founder Richard Daley. Not other U.S. stone fabricators named Daley.
$900,000
Carl Daley owns Designs in Marble, the stone-fabrication shop first-party Our Story copy says he established with his father, Richard Daley, after discovering stone craftsmanship in Oconomowoc and graduating from Oconomowoc High. The page styles the firm as a full-service designer and fabricator of natural stone products including countertops, with locations in Ixonia and Pewaukee, and publishes a Pewaukee Natural Stone Showroom at 1099 Quail Court No 100, Pewaukee, WI 53072, phone (262) 646-4422, plus an Ixonia showroom and shop at N7806 Woody Lane, Ixonia, WI 53036, phone (262) 569-2886.
His professional profile lists him as small-business owner of Designs in Marble LLC and says he stepped into a leadership role in 2024 when his father transitioned the business to him after years on the production side. Older directories still name Richard Daley as owner of the Ixonia Woody Lane shop; later directory copy styles Richard as former owner. First-party Our Story names Carl in the founding-and-craft narrative and does not print a legal title.
Named owner of a single Pewaukee-showroom stone fabricator with a published Quail Court lock makes Daley the marble principal on this slate. Richard Daley is the prior named owner. The Ixonia Woody Lane shop unused as the desk. Work email locked from the Apollo-first pass.
Co-owner, lakeside restaurant · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Carrie Boehm, co-owner of Pewaukee lakeside restaurant Artisan 179 with Ted Anderson; Katrina Harland is general manager and event coordinator. Not other Wisconsin restaurant operators named Carrie Boehm.
$1 million+
Carrie Boehm co-owns Artisan 179, the American restaurant at 179 W. Wisconsin Avenue that she and Ted Anderson opened in February 2015 as a successor vision to Lakefront Grille. First-party team copy presents a three-person leadership set—owners Boehm and Anderson plus general manager and event coordinator Katrina Harland—built around Lake Country dining and a private-event Rhino Room.
Boehm's published bio traces a high-school serving job into UW–Stout's hotel and restaurant program, a UW–Madison economics degree and a 1999 MBA from UW–Milwaukee. She met Anderson in 2013 while discussing Lakefront Grille's future and wanted a more ingredient-driven, service-forward room that still felt like lake country.
Co-owner status on a single Pewaukee lakeside restaurant, a documented 2015 opening and a first-party Wisconsin Avenue address make Boehm the equity principal for this dining story. The restaurant publishes a general info inbox; no person-tied work email is used here.
College athletics administrator; former NFL offensive tackle · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Pewaukee High; Wisconsin Badgers captain and unanimous All-American (1999); Seahawks first-round pick; UW athletic director 2021–2026; Big Ten deputy commissioner
$1,450,000
Chris McIntosh is Pewaukee’s other first-round football product—the 6-foot-7 Pirate who became a Badgers captain, Seahawks draft pick, Wisconsin athletic director, and Big Ten deputy commissioner. Raised in the village, he still frames the job the way Pewaukee framed the kid: develop people who can win Saturdays and the decades after.
He was born in Pewaukee on February 20, 1977, and played at Pewaukee High School. Late in high school, after a wrestling state title, he tore knee ligaments, redshirted at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, then anchored the offensive line for back-to-back Rose Bowl champions. In 1999 he was a unanimous All-American and Big Ten Offensive Lineman of the Year. Seattle took him twenty-second overall in 2000. He started ten games as a rookie before a neck injury limited him and forced retirement before the 2003 season. After health-and-wellness startups, Barry Alvarez recruited him back in 2014 as business-development lead; as associate athletic director he helped land Wisconsin’s ten-year Under Armour apparel deal valued at more than $100 million. He rose to deputy AD, entered the UW Athletic Hall of Fame in 2014—the same year he rejoined the department—and succeeded Alvarez in 2021, just the third Wisconsin athletic director since 1989. His tenure covered the Luke Fickell and Mike Hastings hires, a major football practice-facility project, and the NIL and transfer upheaval. A July 2024 five-year extension set 2024–25 compensation at $1.45 million.
In April 2026 he resigned to become the Big Ten’s first Deputy Commissioner for Strategy. A first-generation college graduate with UW degrees in agricultural economics and educational leadership, he belongs on the Pewaukee page by birth and high school, with Madison as the career arc that followed.
Chiropractor (DC); clinic owner · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Owner of The Chiropractors, LLC in Pewaukee (Palmer College 2004). Spelling Rebholz (not Rebholtz). Not Dr. Bradley Nutting of Chiropractic and Wellness on Pewaukee Lake.
$750,000
Dr. Christopher Rebholz practices chiropractic in Pewaukee as owner of The Chiropractors, LLC. Healthgrades and NPI records place his clinic in Pewaukee and list a Palmer College of Chiropractic education completed in 2004, along with Wisconsin license 4172-012 and an orthopedic chiropractic taxonomy used in national provider directories.
Clinic materials and directories describe individualized care across ages, with advanced training noted in nutrition, extremity adjusting, and pediatrics. He is listed as accepting new patients, keeps regular weekday clinic hours, and is affiliated with Aurora Medical Center Summit in nearby Summit, Wisconsin.
He should not be confused with Pewaukee's other widely listed chiropractor, Dr. Bradley Nutting of Chiropractic and Wellness on Pewaukee Lake. The two run separate practices on different streets, with different phone numbers and a somewhat different sports-versus-general clinic emphasis.
Owner and president, plumbing contractor; women-owned family business leader · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Colleen Horner, owner and president of Pewaukee-based Horner Plumbing after the death of husband Bruce Horner. Sons Chris and Patrick Horner help run operations and remodeling; not founders Bruce or Jim Horner. Prefer Colleen as equity principal over Chris as ops lead.
$3 million+
Colleen Horner owns and serves as president of Horner Plumbing, the Pewaukee residential and commercial plumbing contractor brothers Bruce and Jim Horner started in 1969. After Bruce’s death she took the presidency, keeping the women-owned family firm on the values the founders set—quality, honesty and integrity—while sons Chris and Patrick moved into operations and construction management.
The company grew from a south-side Milwaukee kitchen-table dispatch into a Pewaukee campus with a two-story public showroom and the Colleen Horner Design Studio remodeling arm. Work now spans new-home plumbing, remodeling and commercial projects in healthcare, education, hospitality and multifamily housing across southeastern Wisconsin.
Wisconsin AEC coverage identifies Horner Plumbing as a certified Women-Owned Business Enterprise and credits Chris with day-to-day leadership alongside Patrick while Colleen remains owner and president. That owner-of-record status, WBE certification and half-century Lake Country footprint make her the equity principal for this family contractor story.
President and CEO, general contractor / construction manager · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Craig Jorgensen, president & CEO of Pewaukee-based VJS Construction Services since June 1988. Distinct from Gary Jorgensen (chairman), David, Jake, Allie, and Joe Jorgensen at the same family firm.
$10 million+
Craig Jorgensen has led VJS Construction Services from its Pewaukee headquarters as president and CEO since June 1988, guiding a general contracting, construction management, and design-build firm with roughly 75 years of southeast Wisconsin work. Daily Reporter's 2026 C-Level Awards profile describes VJS as about a $250 million company with an 80% repeat-client base across education, senior living, multifamily, corporate, civic, manufacturing, aviation, religious, retail, hospitality, and healthcare markets.
He holds a B.S. in construction engineering from Iowa State University and emphasizes mentoring employees, safety culture, and community investment through the VJS Construction Services Community Foundation. He has co-chaired a United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County campaign that the firm links to a record $59 million Techquity-focused effort.
VJS lists family leadership across the Jorgensen generation from its Pewaukee headquarters, with additional offices in Port Washington and Green Bay. That Lake Country base keeps the long-running contractor anchored in the same market where Craig has led for decades.
Owner and president, manufacturer's representative firm · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Dan Stetler Jr, principal, owner and president of Mercer RPM, Inc., the motor/drive manufacturer's-rep firm now headquartered at W237N2920 Woodgate Road, Suite 200, Pewaukee. Not Dan Stetler Sr (application engineer) or Chase Stetler (product specialist) on the same first-party roster.
$2 million+
Dan Stetler is owner and president of Mercer RPM, Inc., the Upper Midwest motor, drive, brake and encoder manufacturer's-representative firm first-party contact copy now headquartered at W237N2920 Woodgate Road, Suite 200, Pewaukee, WI 53072, phone 262-244-0581, with additional sales offices in Chicago and Cincinnati/Evansville.
The company team page lists Dan Stetler, Jr as principal and separately lists Dan Stetler, SR as application engineer, Chase Stetler as product specialist, and Tari Stetler in human resources. His professional profile lists owner-president at Mercer RPM from September 1999 and a concurrent owner-president title at T-T Electric USA, the industrial-motor line. Blue Book has listed Dan Stetler as principal; some older directories still show a Delafield Enterprise Road suite.
Named principal and owner-president of a single Pewaukee-headquartered rep firm with a published Woodgate suite makes Stetler Jr the industrial principal. Work email locked from the Apollo-first pass.
Owner, advertising and design agency · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Dan Trzinski, owner of Pewaukee-based Platypus Advertising + Design (platypus-ad.com), founded 1987. Previously media sales at WISN-TV and WKTI. Not other Wisconsin agency owners named Trzinski.
$850,000
Dan Trzinski owns Platypus Advertising + Design, the Pewaukee branding, advertising, media-planning, digital, video and public-relations shop first-party and LinkedIn materials date to 1987. The agency homepage publishes PO Box 796, Pewaukee, WI 53072, phone 262-522-8181, and a general info inbox, and lists tourism, healthcare and education among repeat categories.
His professional profile lists owner from January 1987 in Pewaukee, earlier media-sales work at WISN-TV and WKTI, and recent destination branding including a Price County tourism site launch. Company materials also describe brand-identity work such as Azana Salon & Spa. LinkedIn company copy tags the Pewaukee-headquartered shop as privately held.
Owner of a single Pewaukee agency with a documented 1987 start and a first-party Pewaukee PO Box lock makes Trzinski the advertising principal. No public street shop is published. Work email locked from the Apollo-first pass.
Owner, plumbing contractor · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
David (Dave) Egle, owner/president of Pewaukee-based Clearwater Plumbing, Inc. since 1992. Not other U.S. plumbers or firms using the Clearwater Plumbing name (including out-of-state shops).
$800,000
David Egle owns Clearwater Plumbing, Inc., the Pewaukee plumbing contractor first-party copy says has served Pewaukee, Waukesha, Lake Country and nearby towns since 1992. His professional profile lists him as owner and president from February 1992. Local directories name him as the contact at 285 Forest Grove Drive, Suite 114.
The company site markets residential and commercial service, water-heater install and repair, and remodeling from a Pewaukee 53072 base and publishes (262) 695-8546. Directory and MapQuest listings repeat the Forest Grove suite; the first-party page itself does not print the street.
Owner-president of a single Pewaukee plumbing Inc. with a documented 1992 start and a consistent Forest Grove lock makes Egle the trades principal. No person-tied work email is published in the sources used here; a personal Gmail is not locked.
Screenwriter and film director · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Born Pewaukee, June 9, 1963; UCLA film BFA 1990; screenwriter of Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, Spider-Man; novelist and director
$4,000,000
David Koepp left Pewaukee with a Midwestern movie habit and became one of Hollywood's highest-grossing screenwriters. Born there on June 9, 1963, the youngest of four, he grew up watching Hitchcock with his therapist mother and Godzilla on late-night television while his father ran a billboard company. He tried acting at the University of Minnesota and at Wisconsin–Madison, then transferred to UCLA's film school in 1984 and took a BFA in 1990.
His scripts powered the modern studio-blockbuster era: Jurassic Park and The Lost World for Steven Spielberg, Mission: Impossible for Brian De Palma, Spider-Man for Sam Raimi, War of the Worlds, and two later Indiana Jones entries. As a director he has delivered Stir of Echoes, Secret Window, Premium Rush, and You Should Have Left. Domestic box-office tallies place him among the top handful of writers in studio history, and he returned to dinosaurs with Jurassic World Rebirth after more than two decades away from the franchise. In The Lost World: Jurassic Park he also appears on screen as the unlucky San Diego man eaten by a T. rex, a cameo while he served as second-unit director.
Columbia paid him about $4 million in February 2000 for the Panic Room package, among the richest single-script deals of its era. Writers Guild East gave him the Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Career Achievement in 2013. He has published thrillers including Cold Storage and Aurora and keeps threading Wisconsin into the work through parent names, Midwestern settings, and the sense that ordinary places can hold extraordinary plots. Pewaukee remains the origin story he cites when asked how a kid from lake country ended up inventing Mr. DNA.
Owner, commercial facilities contractor · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Dean Puccetti, founder, owner and president of Pewaukee-based Facility Services Group (Facility Services Group LLC / TeamFSG). Not other Wisconsin contractors named Puccetti.
$2 million+
Dean Puccetti owns Facility Services Group, the Pewaukee commercial and industrial contractor first-party materials say he founded and still leads as president. A capabilities sheet and the company LinkedIn page describe a single-point shop for roofing, coatings, build-outs, paving, painting, masonry restoration and related facility work.
The February 8, 2025 blog launch says FSG has served commercial and industrial property owners since 2002 from 317 Oakton Avenue, Pewaukee, WI 53072, and publishes (262) 695-1111 plus a general info inbox. The Blue Book lists Puccetti as owner at that Oakton street. First-party blog chrome also labels him president.
Founder-owner of a single Pewaukee commercial-facilities contractor with a documented 2002 start and an Oakton Avenue headquarters lock makes Puccetti the principal. The company inbox is not person-tied and is not used here.
Chairman and owner, mechanical contractor · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Dennis J. Braun, longtime owner and current chairman of Pewaukee-based TOTAL Mechanical. Licia Streich is president; Symbiome Capital Partners acquired a majority stake in 2025 while Braun retained an interest. Not sole owner or current president/CEO.
$15 million+
Dennis Braun built TOTAL Mechanical from a heating and sheet-metal contractor into a multi-trade building-services platform headquartered in Pewaukee. He purchased the company, then known as Total Comfort, in 1988 after working there for roughly a decade and later steered acquisitions in plumbing, mechanical service and electrical work.
A 2008 rebrand under Braun recast the company around its broader HVAC, plumbing, fire-protection, building-automation and electrical capabilities. Its Pewaukee headquarters dates to a 1996 expansion, and current leadership materials list Braun as chairman and owner alongside president Licia Streich and a management team spanning construction, fabrication, operations and finance.
In June 2025, clean-energy-focused Symbiome Capital Partners bought a majority stake in TOTAL Mechanical. Braun retained an ownership position and said the partnership would support geographic expansion, acquisitions and growth in data centers, health care, industrial, retail and education—turning a decades-long founder-style run into a fresh liquidity and roll-up chapter.
Former NFL fullback · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Middle Watt brother; Pewaukee High class of 2011; Wisconsin Badgers fullback; Chargers and Steelers, 2016–2023
$12.2 million
Derek John Watt is the middle Watt brother who made his name as a fullback and lead blocker rather than a sack artist. Born in Waukesha on November 7, 1992, he starred at Pewaukee High School, class of 2011, and was named the Associated Press Wisconsin Player of the Year in 2010 as a two-way back and linebacker. He and younger brother T.J. were already teammates in maroon and gold before either reached the NFL; older brother J.J., five years ahead, never got that high-school or college reunion.
At Wisconsin he stayed a Badger fullback, and the San Diego Chargers took him in the sixth round of the 2016 draft. Four seasons in San Diego and Los Angeles as a lead blocker and special-teamer set up a three-year, $9.75 million deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2020, the contract that finally put him on the same NFL roster as T.J. In Week 2 of that first Steelers season he blocked a punt for a safety against Denver. He retired from the NFL in March 2024 after seven seasons; Spotrac career cash through retirement ran to about $12.2 million.
Pewaukee retired his No. 16 alongside T.J.'s No. 20 in May 2023; J.J.'s No. 9 had already come down in 2013. The place claim is Waukesha birth and a Pewaukee upbringing that produced three NFL brothers from one high-school program. Derek's lane was the fullback's: short yardage, kick coverage, and the quiet work that keeps a skill group honest.
Broker-owner, residential real estate brokerage · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Diane Drummy, broker-owner of Pewaukee-based Prestige Realty WI, LLC, founded October 2018. Lifelong Waukesha County resident and Lake Country specialist. Wisconsin license #56183-90. Not other Wisconsin agents named Drummy.
$750,000
Diane Drummy is broker-owner of Prestige Realty WI, the independent Pewaukee boutique brokerage first-party about copy says was founded in October 2018. Her agent page lists ABR, ASP, BPOR, CRS, CRMS, GRI, RELO and SRES designations, a UW–Stevens Point bachelor's, Pewaukee Chamber membership, and more than two decades in Southeast Wisconsin residential work. Realtor.com lists the brokerage at PO Box 344, Pewaukee, WI 53072 and license #56183-90.
First-party bio copy says her listings have sold for up to 104 percent of list price with an average of 16 days on market and cites Five Star / Milwaukee Magazine client-satisfaction recognition, a Journal Sentinel Realtor of the Week nod, and a '10 Best Agents' Wisconsin mention. LinkedIn dates the owner title to October 2018 in Pewaukee.
Broker-owner of a single Pewaukee independent shop with a documented 2018 founding and a Pewaukee PO Box lock makes Drummy the residential-brokerage principal. Work email locked from the Apollo-first pass.
President, commercial foodservice equipment company · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Eric Boelter, third-generation president of Pewaukee/Waukesha-area The Boelter Companies (commercial kitchen equipment). Not other Boelter-family or Boelter-named individuals outside this firm.
$15 million+
Eric Boelter runs The Boelter Companies, the Lake Country foodservice distributor BizTimes lists under Pewaukee among Wisconsin's most influential business leaders. A third-generation principal, he joined the family firm in 1992 and became president in 2008, steering a nearly century-old supplier of commercial kitchen equipment, supplies, and design for restaurants, breweries, and distilleries.
Under his watch the company has grown to roughly 525 employees across offices in seven states and completed acquisitions including Minneapolis-based Premier Restaurant Equipment (now Boelter Premiere), Georgia's Direct South, and Vancouver's Chrislan Ceramics. In 2024 Deloitte recognized Boelter innovations such as the EuroBar underbar cocktail station and the Eleven36 operator technology platform.
Boelter holds a bachelor's from Indiana University and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He serves on the Wisconsin Restaurant Association board and the UW–Milwaukee Lubar College of Business advisory council, tying the company's Pewaukee-market identity to regional hospitality leadership.
Owner, lawn maintenance company · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Eric Levenhagen, co-owner with Stacy Levenhagen of Pewaukee-based wislawn LLC, the family lawn-mowing and property-maintenance shop opened in 2016. Not other Wisconsin landscapers named Levenhagen.
$550,000
Eric Levenhagen owns wislawn, the Pewaukee family lawn-mowing and property-maintenance company first-party about copy says he and Stacy Levenhagen opened in 2016 to 'make our neighbors' lives easier.' The homepage and service pages tag Glacier Road, Pewaukee, phone (262) 290-5296, and weekly mowing plus spring/fall cleanups for Pewaukee, Waukesha, Brookfield, Sussex and nearby Waukesha County.
The about page says Eric grew up in West Allis and attended Nathan Hale High, Stacy grew up around Madison and Stoughton High, and both graduated from UW–Eau Claire in the mid-2000s. After software-industry work they started the lawn shop; they have three children in the Pewaukee school district. Customer reviews on the homepage name Eric as the owner. LinkedIn lists owner from May 2016 in Pewaukee, with prior JAMF Software product-owner and account-manager titles.
Owner of a single Pewaukee lawn LLC with a documented 2016 start and a first-party Glacier Road / Pewaukee lock makes Levenhagen the lawn principal. Stacy is the other named owner. Work email locked from the Apollo-first pass.
Owner, lakefront dock and lift contractor · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Erin M. Stapleton, owner of Pewaukee-based Lake Country Barge, LLC (Lake Country Barge Docks and Lifts). Not other U.S. marine contractors named Stapleton.
$450,000
Erin Stapleton owns Lake Country Barge, the Pewaukee dock, boat-lift and lakefront-services contractor first-party pages brand as Lake Country Barge Docks and Lifts. The homepage says the shop has 15-plus years in Southeast Wisconsin, a team of 18, a fleet of four full-time barges and a Pewaukee showroom, and styles the firm as a veteran-owned, BBB A+ Platinum Level FLOE dealer serving lakes within about 45 minutes of Pewaukee. BBB lists Erin M. Stapleton as owner of Lake Country Barge at 230 Sussex St, Pewaukee, WI 53072, phone (262) 490-5080, with a November 21, 2016 start date.
Her professional profile lists her as business owner of Lake Country Barge, LLC from July 2024. The FLOE dealer about page repeats the Sussex Street Pewaukee lock and publishes a person-tied inbox that matches the Apollo-first pass. First-party homepage copy does not print her name.
Named owner of a single Pewaukee lakefront dock-and-lift LLC with a published Sussex Street / Pewaukee showroom lock makes Stapleton the barge principal on this slate. Work email locked from the Apollo-first pass.
Reusable packaging / warehouse-automation account management · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Greater Milwaukee packaging/warehouse-automation account manager with Pewaukee footprint; 2016 ORBIS strategic account manager byline. Not the Alesci Homes / Anthony Alesci Sr. custom-builder family.
$400,000
Greg Alesci works in reusable packaging and warehouse-automation logistics from the Greater Milwaukee area, with a documented Pewaukee footprint. In 2016 he co-authored a Plant Engineering feature on warehouse-automation trends while serving as a strategic account manager at ORBIS, the Oconomowoc-based maker of plastic totes, crates, and pallets used in automated distribution.
ORBIS supplies reusable packaging for conveyors, robotics, and mini-load systems, and Alesci's byline focused on how tote design, ergonomics, and RFID traceability shape modern fulfillment. His LinkedIn profile places him in Greater Milwaukee and has featured packaging-industry content, though a current public title beyond the 2016 ORBIS credit has not been locked on company pages.
Public-record directories associate Gregory Paul Alesci with Pewaukee, Wisconsin. He is not connected in published materials to Alesci Homes, the long-running Milwaukee-area custom builder founded by Anthony S. Alesci Sr. and continued by Tony II.
Founder and president, precision machining and welding manufacturer · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Greg Smiltneek, founder and president of Pewaukee-based Resource Machining & Welding Corp. Not Gerald Smiltneek of Manufacturing Works / Uniplex (a different Pewaukee company), or Chase Smiltneek.
$2 million+
Greg Smiltneek founded Resource Machining & Welding in 1988 after learning mills and lathes from his father beginning at age 14 in 1971. From the company's Pewaukee headquarters he built a contract manufacturer known for horizontal CNC precision work in stainless and hard-to-machine alloys such as Hastelloy C-276, plus fabrication, welding, robotic welding, engineering, reverse engineering and custom one-off parts.
Resource positions itself as a partner that develops and operates custom production equipment for proprietary products—emphasizing on-time delivery, cost containment and expanding capabilities year over year for customers that need more than a job-shop quote. The firm's public footprint is strongest in first-party history and industrial directories rather than consumer media, which is typical for Upper Midwest precision shops.
Founder-operator control, a clear Pewaukee plant and a multi-decade stainless and CNC specialty make Smiltneek a machining principal distinct from the larger OEMs and distributors already on the local slate. The shop’s public record is quieter than consumer brands, but the 1988 founding and continuous ownership are unambiguous.
Physician; tobacco litigation lead plaintiff · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Pediatrician and lead plaintiff in Florida's landmark Engle tobacco class action; born on a Pewaukee farm
$2,500,000
Howard Aaron Engle was born on a Pewaukee farm to Eastern European Jewish immigrants, the area's only Jewish family, and became the pediatrician whose name still defines American tobacco litigation. He earned undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, served in Army public health in occupied Germany after World War II, then built a nearly fifty-year pediatric neurology practice in Miami Beach, including an integrated Liberty City office and a turn as chief of pediatrics at Mount Sinai Medical Center.
A two-pack-a-day smoker since medical school, he joined a 1994 Florida class action as lead plaintiff for attorneys Stanley and Susan Rosenblatt, whose children he had treated, hoping the case would warn others off nicotine. In July 2000 a Miami jury hit cigarette makers with roughly $145 billion in punitive damages, then one of the largest awards in U.S. history. Appeals courts later decertified the class as too sprawling, but the Florida Supreme Court preserved individual Engle progeny suits that still populate Florida dockets. A May 2001 ruling let the companies post a $2 billion appeal bond, of which about $709 million was guaranteed to plaintiffs; Engle's personal cut was reported in the hundreds of thousands.
He died in Miami Beach on July 22, 2009, of COPD and lymphoma at eighty-nine, still smoking until shortly before hospice. The Pewaukee farm kid who warned patients not to smoke never fully quit himself; the docket that bears his name outlived him.
Professional basketball player · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Pewaukee-born shooting guard; Oakland University March Madness hero vs. Kentucky; G League / overseas pro
$400,000
Jack Gohlke is the Pewaukee shooting specialist who made March Madness look like a three-point clinic. A 6-foot-3 guard out of Pewaukee High School, he turned a Division II résumé and one Horizon League season at Oakland University into a national highlight reel, then kept playing for pay from summer league to overseas clubs and the G League.
Born in Pewaukee on December 3, 1999, he spent four seasons at Hillsdale College, reaching the Division II Elite Eight as a junior and earning first-team All-G-MAC honors as a senior before using COVID eligibility to transfer to Oakland for 2023–24. That year he was Horizon League Sixth Man of the Year in a season when 97 percent of his field-goal attempts were threes—364 of 372 tries from beyond the arc. In the NCAA Tournament’s first round he hit ten three-pointers for 32 points as 14-seed Oakland beat 3-seed Kentucky 80–76, a single-game three total among the highest in tournament history and the spark for a wave of NIL deals.
Undrafted in 2024, he moved from Oklahoma City’s Summer League to Montenegro’s KK Podgorica, the Wisconsin Herd, the Motor City Cruise, Mexico’s Ángeles, Brazil’s Fortaleza, and, in February 2026, the Dallas Mavericks’ G League affiliate, the Texas Legends. Between flights he still hosts shooting camps in Pewaukee classrooms he once walked. The hometown claim is straightforward: born, raised, and still teaching the shot that put Pewaukee on the bracket map.
Co-founder, stainless-steel drinkware brand · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Jacob LaConte, co-founder of Pewaukee-based Real Deal Steel drinkware (keepitrealdealsteel.com). Distinct from co-founder Casey LaConte. Not other U.S. drinkware operators named LaConte.
$450,000
Jacob LaConte co-founded Real Deal Steel, the stainless-steel drinkware brand first-party about copy says he built with Casey LaConte after a 2016 hunt for a classic double-walled coffee mug. The page says a year of garage sketches, prototypes, and midnight overseas calls produced the Classic Mug, that hundreds sold in the first week with no marketing, and that the shop now marks 10 years of keeping it real. A first-party support page publishes 1343 E Wisconsin Ave Suite 116, Pewaukee, WI 53072, and hello@keepitrealdealsteel.com.
His professional profile lists him as co-founder of Real Deal Steel Drinkware from October 2017 in Waukesha and describes stainless mugs, cups, pints, wine glasses, espresso cups, and tumblers. First-party about copy names both founders and does not isolate a solo owner.
Named co-founder of a single Pewaukee drinkware brand with a published East Wisconsin Avenue suite lock makes LaConte the Real Deal principal on this slate. Casey LaConte is the other named founder. Work email locked from the Apollo-first pass.
Owner and stylist, salon and med spa · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Jaime LeFever (also published as Jaime Ava), owner and stylist of Aqua Beauty Lounge & Med Spa at W279 N2221 Prospect Avenue, Pewaukee. Shellie is med-spa co-owner. Journal Sentinel 2018 spelled her first name Jamie.
$1 million+
Jaime LeFever owns Aqua Beauty Lounge & Med Spa, the Pewaukee lake-view salon, spa and med-spa first-party pages also brand under Jaime Ava. The homepage publishes W279N2221 Prospect Avenue, Pewaukee, WI 53072 and phone (262) 691-1814. Owner copy says she studied business at UW–Milwaukee while advising for Clinique, then went to cosmetology school and now specializes in precision cuts and custom color.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's June 21, 2018 Pewaukee feature said she had run a hair salon across the street, took the former Slice N Dice space at W279 N2221 Prospect Ave., and opened the combined salon-and-med-spa on June 6 with a rustic-glam theme, patio cocktails, and a lower-level spa for massage, Botox and IV infusions. LinkedIn lists her as owner from January 2010. First-party team pages name Shellie as med-spa co-owner.
Named owner of a single Pewaukee salon-med-spa with a documented 2018 Prospect Avenue move and a 2010 owner title makes LeFever the beauty principal. Work email locked from the Apollo-first pass.
Board chairman / land developer and broker · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
James P. (Jim) Siepmann, Board Chairman of Siepmann Realty (joined 1981); brother of John P. Siepmann (site-listed President / brokerage & entitlements) and Karen A. Siepmann. Third-generation after grandfather Paul and father Ron. Not John or Chris W. Siepmann (VP ops).
$10 million+
Jim Siepmann chairs Siepmann Realty, the third-generation Lake Country land developer with a Pewaukee office. The firm traces to grandfather Paul's postwar Brookfield subdivisions and father Ron's nationally noted conservation and cluster PUD work; Metropolitan Builders Association materials credit the siblings with more than 100 neighborhoods, including Pewaukee's Steeplechase and Broken Hill.
Siepmann joined after college in 1981 and learned site acquisition, planning, and approvals from the ground up. Company materials still describe him as overseeing development, new construction, and property management even as brother John carries a President title for brokerage and day-to-day operations.
Credentials include Wisconsin real-estate broker licensing, 1999 MBA Builder of the Year, 2021 Metropolitan Builders Association Hall of Fame induction, past MBA presidency (1997), and civic seats including Village of Summit Plan Commission and Waukesha County Park and Land Use Commission, plus boards at Bank59 and Brewer Company.
Owner, roofing and home exterior contractor · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Jason Stein, president/owner of family-owned Stein Home Solutions, Inc., the Pewaukee-tagged roofing and exterior remodeling contractor founded in 1995. Not other Wisconsin contractors named Stein.
$1 million+
Jason Stein owns Stein Home Solutions, Inc., the family roofing and home-exterior firm he has led from Pewaukee since 1995. His professional profile and the company Squarespace site say the shop began as a small roofing company and later added siding, gutters, windows and doors, insulation and home-performance consulting for southeastern Wisconsin homeowners.
First-party hire/contact copy publishes W270 N2444 Orchard Lane, Pewaukee, WI 53072 and phone 262-691-5999. A later marketing site also shows a Genesee Depot Highway 83 line; the desk keeps the Pewaukee Orchard Lane street that matches the locked city page.
Owner-president of a single family exterior-remodeling Inc. with a documented 1995 founding and a Pewaukee Orchard Lane lock makes Stein the roofing principal. Company inboxes appear on first-party pages; no person-tied work email is used here.
CEO, electrical contracting company · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Jay Humbert, CEO of Pewaukee-based Edge Electric (BizTimes Future 50 2025). Purchased A&J Electrical in 2015; merged into Edge in 2021 as VP under founder Nathan Stoppenbach; later became CEO. Not Stoppenbach.
$5 million+
Jay Humbert is chief executive officer of Edge Electric of WI, the Pewaukee full-service electrical contractor BizTimes named a 2025 Future 50 winner. Edge specializes in industrial, commercial, residential, and low-voltage work and organizes crews into specialized teams inside a larger company structure—an approach Humbert highlighted in the Future 50 profile.
Humbert bought Waukesha's A&J Electrical Contractors in 2015 and joined Edge as vice president when Edge acquired A&J in January 2021, with founder Nathan Stoppenbach remaining president at the time. Subsequent BizTimes coverage identifies Humbert as CEO of a firm that has scaled to roughly 170 employees and keeps its headquarters in Pewaukee.
Edge markets statewide service reach from Milwaukee to Madison and Green Bay while keeping its headquarters identity in Pewaukee, pairing growth-market electrical work with a durable Lake Country home base for crews and clients.
Founder and Owner, electrical contracting company · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
BBB legal given name Jeffrey A. Kult; public brand/reviews use Jeff. Not confused with other Trusted Electric LLCs outside Pewaukee (e.g. Colorado Springs BBB hit is a different entity).
$450,000
Jeff Kult is the founder and owner of Trusted Electric, the Pewaukee electrical contractor he built as a Wisconsin licensed master electrician. From a Lake Country home base, the firm serves homeowners and businesses across Waukesha, Milwaukee, and Ozaukee Counties with panel upgrades, remodeling work, lighting, and safety inspections.
Trusted Electric markets Level 2 home EV charger installs for major brands, Generac whole-home standby generators sized for Wisconsin winters, and emergency response for sparking outlets, tripped breakers, and sudden power loss. The company emphasizes permit-ready work, bonded and insured crews, and a lifetime workmanship guarantee while the original customer owns the home.
Community recognition includes a 2025 Best Electrician in Pewaukee vote and strong Google review volume across southeastern Wisconsin. Kult has also been publicly recognized for hiring through Wisconsin’s Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, pairing inclusive staffing with a founder-led electrical shop rooted in Pewaukee.
President and fourth-generation family-business leader · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Jim Jung, fourth-generation president and stockholder of Pewaukee-based Trico Corporation since 2016. Not his father Bob (Robert) Jung, the third-generation CEO/strategic-initiatives leader.
$5 million+
Jim Jung represents the fourth generation of family leadership at Trico Corporation, the Pewaukee industrial-lubrication business founded in 1917. He worked through production and operations, became director of operations, was promoted to vice president and stockholder in 2013, and succeeded his father Bob Jung as president at the start of 2016.
Trico's scope now reaches well beyond its original lubrication hardware. The company supplies oil-analysis and reliability services, storage and transfer systems, condition-monitoring devices and digital tools for maintenance teams in industries such as power generation, chemicals, refining, pulp and paper. Acquisitions beginning in the early 2000s pulled the family manufacturer closer to end users.
Under Jung, that service expansion has become a digital-transformation story. Trico has built cloud-connected sensor, portal and mobile-app systems that help customers monitor equipment and identify contamination or failure risks before costly downtime. The combination of century-old family ownership and newer recurring laboratory, data and software services makes Jung a deeper-bench Pewaukee industrial subject.
Owner, European auto repair shop · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Jim Nelson, owner of Nelson's Automotive of Pewaukee LLC, the Green Road European/import repair shop operating since 2009. Not other Wisconsin auto-repair operators named Jim Nelson.
$750,000
Jim Nelson owns Nelson's Automotive of Pewaukee LLC, the Green Road shop that has specialized in European and Japanese diagnostics and repair since 2009 while still taking domestic work. First-party pages and his LinkedIn owner listing describe a full-service facility for maintenance, drivability, engines, tires and inspections rather than a collision or dealership service lane.
An about page presents Jim and Cindy as a long-running service-and-repair couple and stresses repeat Pewaukee–Hartland–Brookfield customers. The shop sits in the first building west of the tracks on the south side of Green Road—an unambiguous City of Pewaukee industrial address, not a downtown storefront.
Owner of a single independent import-repair LLC with a documented 2009 start and a published Pewaukee street makes Nelson the clear auto-service principal on this slate. No person-tied work email is published in the sources used here.
Founder, president and CEO, truck electrification manufacturer · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Joe Dalum, founder, president and CEO of Odyne Systems, LLC, the medium- and heavy-duty truck hybrid/ePTO manufacturer long tagged to Pewaukee (Woodgate Road). Not other U.S. auto engineers named Dalum.
$5 million+
Joe Dalum is founder, president and CEO of Odyne Systems, LLC, the medium- and heavy-duty truck electrification shop first-party leadership copy says he founded in 2009. Odyne markets plug-in hybrid and electric power-take-off systems that let work trucks run tools and aerial devices with the diesel shut off. Directories and the ACT buyers' guide have long listed corporate headquarters at W237 N2878 Woodgate Road, Suite 2, Pewaukee, WI 53072.
Odyne's leadership biography says Dalum has more than 30 years in automotive and truck work, 22 U.S. patents in vehicle electrification, testified before the U.S. Senate Energy Committee and the House Science and Technology Committee, chaired the Green Truck Association in 2013–2014, sat on the Electric Drive Transportation Association board (2012–2016), and holds a Notre Dame mechanical-engineering B.S. and a Kellogg MBA. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's December 23, 2016 energy report said Pewaukee-based Odyne would lead a roughly $6 million efficiency project with nearly $3 million in Department of Energy money after an earlier contract that helped outfit more than 120 utility trucks; Dalum said sales were up 40 percent that year. LinkedIn lists founder/president/CEO from January 2009 in Pewaukee.
Founder-CEO of the Pewaukee-tagged hybrid-truck OEM with a documented 2009 start and a long Woodgate lock makes Dalum the electrification principal. First-party contact chrome now also prints 2325 Parklawn Drive, Suite J, Waukesha. Work email locked from the Apollo-first pass.
President and owner, natural-food grocery · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Joe Nolan, president and owner of Good Harvest Market at 2205 Silvernail Road, Pewaukee. Opened with Jody Nolan. Former Robert W. Baird financial planner/adviser. Not other U.S. grocers named Joe Nolan.
$5 million+
Joe Nolan is president and owner of Good Harvest Market, Waukesha County's largest natural-food store on first-party copy, at 2205 Silvernail Road, Pewaukee, WI 53072. The contact page names Joe as owner, says the store owner does not keep regular store hours, and publishes 262-544-9380.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's February 8, 2018 feature said Joe and Jody Nolan opened Good Harvest on Silvernail in 2000 because they could not find organic food in Waukesha without driving to Outpost, and that the 2015 expansion was designed as a Ray Oldenburg 'third place' with café seating for well over 120. New Hope's later store-opening piece said the couple moved into a new 23,000-square-foot store and café, nearly double the original 12,000 square feet, and that Joe had been an investment strategist at Robert W. Baird. His professional profile lists owner-president from January 2005, a 2015 move that doubled square footage, and about 25 years at Baird before the grocery.
Owner-president of a single Pewaukee natural grocer with a published Silvernail street and a documented 2015 expansion makes Nolan the grocery principal. Jody is the other named founder. Work email locked from the Apollo-first pass.
Co-owner, restoration franchise · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Johan Van Niekerk (Johan D. Van Niekerk), co-owner of SERVPRO of Pewaukee & Sussex with Ryan W. Kaun and of four other southeastern Wisconsin SERVPRO franchises. Not other restoration operators named Van Niekerk.
$2.5 million+
Johan Van Niekerk is a co-owner of SERVPRO of Pewaukee & Sussex, the Pewaukee fire, water, mold and specialty-cleaning franchise first-party contact copy publishes at W233N2800 Roundy Circle West, Suite 100, Pewaukee, WI 53072, phone (262) 696-6336. The franchise team page names Ryan W. Kaun and Johan D. Van Niekerk as owners and says Van Niekerk also owns SERVPRO of West Bend, Germantown/Hartford, Bay View and Beaver Dam/Columbus.
First-party team copy says he has more than 10 years in the SERVPRO system, worked up from technician to owner, holds IICRC certifications across water, fire, mold and cleaning, and is a Master Water Restorer. His professional profile lists him as owner of SERVPRO of Pewaukee & Sussex from September 2019 and as operator of the five-location group, including large-loss work.
Named co-owner of the Pewaukee & Sussex franchise with a documented 2019 ownership lock and a published Roundy Circle West suite makes Van Niekerk the restoration principal on this slate. Ryan W. Kaun is the other owner. Work email locked from the Apollo-first pass.
Owner, excavating and septic contractor · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Distinct from Kienbaum Excavating Inc. (Whitewater / USDOT family-related excavating). Subject is John Carl Kienbaum Jr. of Pewaukee LLC.
$750,000
John Carl Kienbaum Jr. owns Kienbaum Excavating & Septic, the Pewaukee septic and excavating contractor that grew out of a childhood spent on heavy equipment. Raised on the family farm in Whitewater, Wisconsin, he was running machinery by age twelve in the family excavating and septic trade before striking out on his own in the Waukesha County market.
Before launching the firm, Kienbaum spent nine years as a septic crew foreman installing an average of three systems a week. Since 1999 he has diagnosed, repaired, pumped, and installed systems across Waukesha County and beyond. The business dates to 2007 as an LLC focused on mound and conventional systems, soil testing, sewer work, and demolition.
He holds Wisconsin Master Plumber–Restricted and Certified Soil Tester credentials and belongs to the Wisconsin Onsite Water Recycling Association. Kienbaum lives in Pewaukee with his wife, Christina, who runs the office, keeping the operation a husband-and-wife shop rooted in Lake Country.
Chief executive officer and broker-owner · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
John Gscheidmeier, founder, CEO and broker-owner of RE/MAX Service First, with the Lake Country office in downtown Pewaukee. Not another RE/MAX broker or similarly named Wisconsin real-estate professional.
$2 million+
John Gscheidmeier is the founder, chief executive and broker-owner behind RE/MAX Service First, a Waukesha County brokerage with a Lake Country office in downtown Pewaukee. He opened the business in 2016 and has built his own production record alongside the brokerage platform, reporting more than 750 closed sales since 2011.
Gscheidmeier came to residential real estate after work as a police officer, experience his public biography connects to negotiation, human behavior and problem-solving. He has also owned investment property and taught at the college level, threads he uses in advising buyers, sellers and real-estate investors across Waukesha County.
His Pewaukee office supports luxury, lake, land, development, new-construction and investment work as well as mainstream residential transactions. RE/MAX says 97% of his business comes from past clients and referrals. For this slate, the combination of broker ownership, a documented transaction count and a physical Lake Country storefront gives a cleaner local real-estate story than a remote development tie.
Founder and chief executive officer, industrial networking technology · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
John S. Rinaldi, founder and CEO/business-development leader of Pewaukee-based Real Time Automation. Not the late baseball broadcaster John Rinaldi or other executives with the same name.
$4 million+
John Rinaldi founded Real Time Automation in 1989 and built the Pewaukee company around a deceptively difficult promise: make industrial networking simple. RTA develops gateways and integration products that help factory-floor equipment communicate across protocols, a business that grew from consulting requests Rinaldi received while an electronic-toy venture was struggling.
Rinaldi brought experience from Kimberly-Clark factory controls, Allen-Bradley device development and Procter & Gamble enterprise systems. He earned an electrical-engineering degree at Marquette and a computer-science master's at the University of Connecticut, then translated that technical background into products, support and a deliberately unconventional company culture.
BizTimes recognized him with a 2019 Bravo! Entrepreneur Award and put the company at 25 employees. Rinaldi has also written five practical industrial-networking books covering Ethernet/IP, Modbus and OPC UA. His blend of niche software-hardware intellectual property, 35-plus years of founder tenure and a Pewaukee headquarters makes him one of the batch's strongest under-the-radar technology owners.
NFL general manager · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
NFL general manager of the Las Vegas Raiders; raised in Pewaukee; Catholic Memorial High School
$6 million
John Spytek grew up in Pewaukee and turned a Michigan linebacker's résumé into the general manager's chair for the Las Vegas Raiders. Born in August 1980, the son of Wisconsin alumni whose father played Badger baseball, he starred as a two-way end at Catholic Memorial High School in Waukesha under Bill Young. As a senior he earned first-team all-league honors on defense and second-team on offense; across his three starting seasons Memorial went 30–4 with a state title and two runner-up finishes. He chose Ann Arbor over other Big Ten offers because he never wanted to wonder what if Michigan.
He played outside linebacker for the Wolverines from 1999 to 2002, overlapping one season with Tom Brady, earned a general-studies degree and a sports-management master's, and entered the league as a Detroit Lions operations intern in 2004. Philadelphia scouting, Cleveland's director of college scouting at age twenty-nine, a Denver area and national scout role that produced a Super Bowl 50 ring, and nine Tampa Bay seasons as director of player personnel, vice president, and assistant general manager followed, capped by Super Bowl LV beside Brady again. Tampa Bay under his personnel tenure returned all twenty-two Super Bowl LV starters in 2021, the first salary-cap-era team to do so.
Owner Mark Davis named him the Raiders' sixth general manager on January 24, 2025, on a five-year deal. Off the field, he and his wife, Kristen, co-founded the National CMV Foundation after their daughter Evelyn died of congenital cytomegalovirus. Pewaukee still lists him as hometown; the league now lists him as the architect of a Silver and Black rebuild.
CEO and primary care sports medicine physician · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Jon M. Englund, MD, CEO of Orthopaedic Associates of Wisconsin / OrthoWisconsin and board-certified sports medicine + family medicine physician. Pewaukee main campus. Not Mick Kelly, MD (partner hip/knee surgeon at same group) or other OAW physicians.
$3 million+
Dr. Jon Englund is chief executive officer of Orthopaedic Associates of Wisconsin, the multi-site orthopedic group whose Pewaukee campus anchors Lake Country specialty care. He is board-certified in both sports medicine and family medicine, pairing clinical practice with group leadership at a practice that public schema data places in the 201–500 employee range.
Englund earned his M.D. at the University of Wisconsin Medical School (2002) after a UW–Madison double major in biochemistry and Spanish, completed family-practice residency at St. Luke's (Aurora) in Milwaukee, and finished a primary-care sports medicine fellowship at Notre Dame in 2006. Group materials credit national presentations on musculoskeletal ultrasound, joint injury, and osteoarthritis management.
Patients see him across sports-medicine and musculoskeletal conditions spanning knee, hip, shoulder, spine, and extremities. The Pewaukee campus shares the OAW network with Brookfield and other regional sites, keeping the group's administrative and clinical center of gravity on the Pewaukee campus he leads.
Former NFL defensive end · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
NFL defensive end and three-time Defensive Player of the Year; raised in Pewaukee, often listed as born in Waukesha
$130 million
Justin James “J.J.” Watt is the Pewaukee-raised defensive end who became a three-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year, a Walter Payton Man of the Year, and the face of a Texans defense that made Houston care about stop-the-run football. Birth records and older bios often place his birth in Waukesha and his raise next door in Pewaukee; the high-school banners say Pewaukee either way.
Hockey came first. He played travel teams that took him to Canada and Germany until money and scheduling pushed him toward football. At Pewaukee High he was a four-sport letterman and Woodland Conference Player of the Year. After leaving Central Michigan he mopped floors and delivered pizza at a Pewaukee Pizza Hut, then walked on at Wisconsin and became a first-round draft pick. His middle name honors paternal grandfather James; the family mantra from firefighter dad John was “Act like somebody.”
A 2014 six-year, $100 million extension briefly made him the NFL’s highest-paid non-quarterback. Off the field he raised tens of millions after Hurricane Harvey and, after the 2021 Waukesha Christmas parade tragedy, publicly offered funeral help for victims. Brothers Derek and T.J. also reached the NFL; this page is J.J. alone. The Wisconsin claim is Pewaukee raise and schooling, with Waukesha often listed on the birth certificate.
Broker-owner, residential real-estate brokerage · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Justin M. Roach, broker-owner of Pewaukee-based Bluebell Realty with Jennifer Roach. Not other Wisconsin real-estate agents named Justin Roach.
$650,000
Justin Roach co-owns Bluebell Realty, the Pewaukee brokerage he and Jennifer Roach launched in 2017 and later expanded into a renovated church property on a high-visibility Pewaukee corner. After careers in customer service, retail and marketing, the couple built the firm from a two-person shop into a multi-agent office that has claimed Metro MLS top-100 market-penetration ranking in early growth years.
Bluebell’s public pitch emphasizes agent economics and culture—low per-transaction brokerage fees, hands-on training and values language around gratitude, humility and integrity—rather than a franchise banner. The converted-church office gives the company a distinctive Village/City of Pewaukee landmark presence at a high-visibility a Pewaukee arterial corner.
Roach’s story is that of an independent broker-owner whose company and office are unambiguously Pewaukee. The 2017 founding narrative, landmark Pewaukee corner presence and published person-tied business email give the desk a clear local brokerage subject outside a national franchise banner.
Founder and medical director, integrative-medicine physician · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Kalpana M. Kumar, M.D., publicly known as Dr. Rose Kumar, founder and medical director of The Ommani Center in Pewaukee. Not other physicians named Rose or Kalpana Kumar.
$2 million+
Dr. Kalpana “Rose” Kumar founded The Ommani Center in Pewaukee in February 2001 after five years in corporate health care. Her practice combines internal medicine with evidence-based complementary approaches, a model she developed to address prevention, chronic disease and the emotional and lifestyle dimensions she felt conventional care often left untreated.
Kumar graduated from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1986, completed an internship at UC San Francisco and trained in internal medicine at Stanford. She is board-certified in internal medicine and also holds certifications in plant-based nutrition and HeartMath practice. Her Pewaukee center says its care model has served thousands of patients over more than two decades.
BizTimes profiled Kumar as a Health Care Heroes honoree and CEO-founder, highlighting a multidisciplinary staff that worked alongside acupuncture, nutrition, massage and other complementary practitioners. Her first-party biography also cites Top Doctor recognitions and YWCA honors, giving this slate a clinic founder with both medical credentials and a long, clearly documented Pewaukee practice.
Founder, majority shareholder and president, commercial drywall and finish-carpentry contractor · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Karen Hetzel, founder (1993) and majority shareholder/president since 2007 of Pewaukee-based Hetzel-Sanfilippo. Not co-principal Peter Sanfilippo or field leaders Jeffrey, Ryan or Jason Hetzel.
$3 million+
Karen Hetzel founded what became Hetzel-Sanfilippo in 1993 as Hetzel Drywall, building a Pewaukee commercial subcontractor around gypsum assemblies, cold-formed framing, exterior insulation finish systems and finish carpentry. Peter Sanfilippo joined as a principal owner in 1995 when finish carpentry was added; Karen has served as majority shareholder and president since 2007, overseeing finances, human resources and contract execution.
The union shop works southeastern Wisconsin commercial projects and carries Disadvantaged Business Enterprise, Small Business Enterprise and Women’s Business Enterprise certifications. Family members including Jeffrey, Ryan and Jason Hetzel round out leadership, keeping the firm in the founder-family ownership pattern common among Pewaukee contractors.
Hetzel’s public footprint is strongest in construction-trade recognition: The Daily Reporter’s Wisconsin AEC 350 profile identifies her as founder and president and places the company in Pewaukee. WBE/DBE credentials, majority ownership and three decades of commercial specialty make her a clear construction-owner subject.
Founder and attorney, general-practice law firm (criminal defense, family, estate) · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Katie E. Babe, founder of Pewaukee-based Lakeland Law Firm, LLC. Not a large-firm partner; solo/small-firm principal carrying on a Pewaukee Fire Department family tradition in a different civic role.
$700,000
Katie Babe opened Lakeland Law Firm in Pewaukee in 2008, deliberately planting the practice in the lake town where her grandfather, father and an uncle served on the Pewaukee Fire Department. A Wisconsin Law Journal profile captured the early-practice story: more than half criminal defense, with family law, estate planning, divorce mediation, guardianships and probate for a primarily local clientele that still stretched as far as Burnett County when needed.
Directories continue to place Lakeland Law Firm in Pewaukee and list Babe as the firm's attorney for DUI/DWI, criminal, family and related matters. Community involvement in the early years included Sussex Lioness Club service and fundraising for special-needs children.
Founder-attorney status, a documented hometown founding narrative and a contemporary Pewaukee directory lock make Babe the clear solo-practice law principal for this slate. The Wisconsin Law Journal feature is older, but the 2008 founding story and local practice footprint remain the publishable through-line.
President, custom electromagnetic / electromechanical manufacturer · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Katrina Goetz, president of Pewaukee-based TLX Technologies (named Jan. 2025); succeeded Neil Karolek, who moved to CEO. Alverno College alum; WMEP board. Not other Goetz professionals.
$850,000
Katrina Goetz became president of Pewaukee-based TLX Technologies in January 2025, succeeding company veteran Neil Karolek, who shifted into the CEO role. Founded in 1996, TLX designs and manufactures custom electromagnetic and electromechanical solutions for OEMs and system suppliers—solenoids, valves, and related components engineered for response time, efficiency, and harsh environments.
Goetz joined TLX in 2004 as a bookkeeper and rose through operations, finance, strategic planning, human resources, and IT before serving as chief financial officer. BizTimes highlighted her internal path from bookkeeping to the presidency as a manufacturing leadership story rooted in the same Pewaukee campus.
She is an Alverno College alumna and serves on the board of the Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership (WMEP). TLX continues to operate from Pewaukee while serving OEM and system-supplier customers across industrial markets that rely on custom electromagnetic components.
Executive chairman; second-generation wastewater-infrastructure executive · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Keith Alexander, son of Visu-Sewer co-founder Ernest “Ernie” Alexander; longtime president/CEO and, since June 2026, executive chairman after Paul Quentel became CEO. Not founder Ernie Alexander or current CEO Paul Quentel.
$8 million+
Keith Alexander is the second-generation steward of VisuSewer, the Pewaukee wastewater-infrastructure contractor his father Ernie and fellow investors founded in 1975. He interned in sales during college, joined full-time after graduating from UW–Whitewater, became president in 2001 and later served as CEO through the company’s expansion into trenchless rehabilitation, CCTV inspection, jet cleaning and related municipal services across the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast.
In November 2023, Boston private-equity firm Fort Point Capital invested in Visu-Sewer as the first deal out of FPC Small Cap Fund III, citing Keith and the management team’s growth plan. The Pewaukee headquarters anchors a multi-state branch network that has grown through acquisitions such as Internal Pipe Inspection (Chicago), I-Jets (Iowa) and Walden Technologies (East St. Louis).
In June 2026, Fort Point and the VisuSewer board appointed Paul Quentel CEO; Keith moved to executive chairman while remaining involved in leadership and operations. He is a past NASSCO president—following Ernie in that industry role—and a past president of the Wisconsin Underground Contractors Association, giving him both a PE-backed chapter and deep trade-association standing.
Financial-services founder and chief executive; deposit-management entrepreneur · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Kelly A. Brown, founder/former chairman & CEO of Pewaukee-based American Deposit Management (sold 2020) and current chairman & CEO of Waukesha-based Ampersand, Inc. Not unrelated executives named Kelly Brown. Pewaukee lock is the ADM founding campus and exit; Ampersand is Waukesha—not a current Pewaukee HQ claim.
$10 million+
Kelly Brown built one of Pewaukee’s clearest fintech exit stories when she founded American Deposit Management in 2009 and grew the company into a national deposit platform serving more than 500 financial institutions and more than $6 billion in assets under management. She earlier founded First Wisconsin Bank & Trust, sold in 2008, then led ADM as chairman and CEO through its 2020 sale to O’Brien-Staley Partners.
BizTimes and Patriot Financial Partners materials credit Brown with remaining at ADM into 2022, then founding Ampersand in 2023. Ampersand—based in Waukesha and backed by Patriot as lead investor, with additional JAM FINTOP participation—markets the AmpersandAlign platform for aggregating and optimizing deposits across partner institutions after the 2023 regional-banking stress.
Brown’s awards trail includes Business Journal Woman of Influence, U.S. Chamber Businessperson of the Year and Entrepreneur of the Year nods. The Pewaukee story is the ADM founding campus and liquidity event; Ampersand is the current operating chapter and is labeled Waukesha rather than stretched into a current Pewaukee headquarters claim.
Founder and CEO; CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Kevin M. Reardon, CFP®, founder (1999) and CEO of Shakespeare Wealth Management in Pewaukee. Not other Kevin Reardons; firm is fee-only RIA serving clients with $1M+ investable assets.
$8 million+
Kevin Reardon founded Shakespeare Wealth Management in Pewaukee in 1999 and now serves as founder and CEO of the fee-only fiduciary firm. Shakespeare markets to high-net-worth households with at least $1 million to invest, emphasizing relationship-driven planning through retirement, business sales, inheritance, divorce, and legacy transitions.
A Marquette University graduate in finance and economics, Reardon earned the CFP® designation and previously served as president and chairman of the Financial Planning Association of Wisconsin. In January 2024 he elevated longtime advisor Andrea Bulen to president and partner as the firm marked its 25th anniversary, remaining CEO while she leads day-to-day presidential duties.
The firm's Pewaukee office anchors Shakespeare's Lake Country presence. Reardon is active with Jesuit Nation and St. Charles Church in Hartland, and firm materials note a 2017 Vistage Inspirational Leader of the Year award recognizing his community and client leadership.
President and owner, supplement brand · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Kristina (Kristie) Hall, Pewaukee-raised president and owner/co-founder of True Grace Health with husband Brian Hall (CEO). Not other supplement executives named Hall. Sara Newmark is COO, not the owner on this slate.
$2 million+
Kristina Hall — published as Kristie Hall in press — is president and owner of True Grace, the Pewaukee supplement brand she and her husband, Brian Hall, launched from Lake Country. First-party leadership copy lists Kristie Hall as president and owner and Brian as CEO, with Sara Newmark on the operating team, and frames the brand around regenerative agriculture and nutrient-dense supplements.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's January 3, 2022 Pewaukee feature said Hall grew up and went to grade school in Pewaukee, lives there, and started the company locally; it placed True Grace at N22 W27847 Edgewater Drive and said products launched in October 2021. A October 4, 2021 BusinessWire introduction named her founder and CMO and said becoming a mother of two after her father's metastatic prostate-cancer fight pushed the brand. NutraIngredients' February 1, 2023 NutraWomen interview said the couple quit prior supplement jobs in February 2020 — two weeks before the COVID shutdown — after years at firms including New Chapter and Garden of Life; Hall had also been editor-in-chief of Delicious Living. LinkedIn lists her as president and owner from March 2020.
Named public founder-owner of a Pewaukee-headquartered supplement brand with a 2021 launch, a Journal Sentinel hometown lock and an Edgewater Drive address makes Hall the principal on this slate. Brian is CEO and co-founder. Work email locked from the Apollo-first pass.
Owner, landscaping company · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Kurt Barth, owner of Pewaukee-based Merrill Hills Landscape Co (also styled Merrill Hills Landscape Company), a design-build landscape contractor. Not other Wisconsin landscapers named Barth.
$1 million+
Kurt Barth owns Merrill Hills Landscape Co, the Pewaukee design-build landscape contractor directories place at W227N4755 Duplainville Road. His professional profile lists him as owner from March 1993 and describes a shop split between residential and commercial work, with designers, a certified landscape architect, and crews focused on dry-laid paving and complex retaining walls.
The Daily Reporter quoted Barth as owner of the Pewaukee firm in a March 1, 2009 landscaping-industry feature, tying residential demand to baby-boomer wealth and commercial work to outdoor workplace amenities. Local listings publish the Duplainville Road yard and (262) 691-1111.
Owner of a single Pewaukee landscape construction company with a multi-decade owner title, a 2009 press lock and a published Duplainville street makes Barth the clear landscaping principal. No person-tied work email is used here.
Chairman and CEO, construction materials and contracting group · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Kurt Bechthold, third-generation chairman/CEO of Walbec Group (Payne + Dolan and affiliates). Grandson of founder Walter Bechthold; son of Ned Bechthold. Not Brian Enders/Endres or other Walbec executives.
$50 million+
Kurt Bechthold chairs and leads Walbec Group, the family construction platform BizTimes still lists under Pewaukee even as corporate offices sit in Waukesha. Third-generation after grandfather Walter and father Ned, he oversees six companies—Payne + Dolan, Northeast Asphalt, Zenith Tech, Parisi, Premier Concrete, and Construction Resources Management—that produce materials and deliver design, engineering, and construction across the Midwest.
Recent Wisconsin 275 profiles put the group near 2,000 employees. The firm has handled federal, state, and municipal work such as Milwaukee County's East-West Bus Rapid Transit and Beloit's Rock River pedestrian bridge, plus commercial jobs including downtown Milwaukee's 7Seventy7 tower and Erin Hills golf course work. Walbec acquired Verona's Parisi Construction and has expanded its headquarters campus.
Bechthold earned a bachelor's at UW–Madison and an MBA at Northwestern Kellogg. He serves on boards including Froedtert ThedaCare Health, Sunrock Group, Siebert Lutheran Foundation, MMAC, Lake Express, and the National Asphalt Pavement Association, and belongs to the Greater Milwaukee Committee.
Co-owner, salon, spa and medspa · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Laura Chapman, co-owner with Jeremy Chapman of Spargo Salon, Spa & MediSpa at 1001 Cecelia Drive, Pewaukee. Not other Wisconsin salon owners named Laura Chapman.
$1.5 million+
Laura Chapman co-owns Spargo Salon, Spa & MediSpa, the Pewaukee hair, spa and medical-spa destination she and Jeremy Chapman run at 1001 Cecelia Drive. First-party about copy presents the couple as owners of a luxury day-spa team covering salon services, therapeutic massage and medi-spa treatments for Metro Milwaukee's Lake Country.
A Faces of Lake Country profile describes Chapman as a Wisconsin-raised stylist with more than 25 years in the chair—Big Bend/Mukwonago childhood, Pewaukee family since 2010—and publishes the person-tied work email laura@spargospa.com. Spargo careers pages also route resumes to that same Laura inbox.
Co-owner of a single Pewaukee salon/spa/medspa with a published Cecelia Drive address and a first-party person-tied email make Chapman a clean local services principal. Jeremy is a co-owner; Laura is the named public owner in the sources used for this desk.
Politician; former Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Wisconsin’s first woman lieutenant governor; born Kenosha, longtime Waukesha County politician; died at home in Pewaukee
$2 million
Margaret Farrow was Wisconsin’s first woman lieutenant governor, a long Waukesha County Republican who rose from Elm Grove village halls to Madison and never quite left public life. When Governor Tommy Thompson resigned for a federal cabinet post in 2001 and Scott McCallum moved up, McCallum appointed her lieutenant governor. She chaired work-based learning and women’s council efforts, co-chaired invasive-species work, and lost the 2002 ticket race to Jim Doyle and Barbara Lawton.
Born Margaret Ann Nemitz in Kenosha on November 28, 1934, to a Snap-on finance executive and a corporate assistant, she finished St. Catherine’s High School in Racine, sampled Rosary College, and earned degrees in political science and education at Marquette University. She taught, sold real estate, and raised five sons with her engineer husband, John, before Elm Grove politics pulled her in. Service on the village appeals board, plan commission, board of trustees, and as village president preceded election to the state Assembly in 1986 and twelve years in the state Senate from a Waukesha County district.
In later years she chaired WisconsinEye’s board, helped build Waukesha County’s business alliance, and served on the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents from 2013 to 2017. Her son Paul followed her into the Assembly, the Senate, and the Waukesha County executive’s office. She died at eighty-seven at her home in Pewaukee on March 8, 2022, remembered as a fiscal conservative who treated other people’s money as other people’s money. Pewaukee was the final address after the Elm Grove years that launched her career.
Founder, commercial real estate brokerage · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Mark Gorski, founder of Pewaukee-based Summit Commercial Real Estate, LLC (summit-cre.com). Industrial and investment broker; lifelong Waukesha County resident now in Pewaukee. Not other Wisconsin brokers named Gorski.
$2 million+
Mark Gorski founded Summit Commercial Real Estate, LLC, the Pewaukee industrial and investment brokerage whose first-party about page says he completed more than 500 transactions across a 16-year career as an industrial broker at a local firm. The news/contact chrome publishes 1256 Capitol Dr., Ste 700 #313, Pewaukee, WI 53072 and phone 262-370-9852.
Summit's mission copy emphasizes sale and lease listings, buyer/tenant representation, land, valuations and investment work in Greater Milwaukee and Madison. The about page says Gorski is a lifelong Waukesha County resident who lives in Pewaukee with his family. LinkedIn dates the founder title from January 2022 and lists a prior industrial-broker stretch at Judson & Associates in Pewaukee.
Founder of a single Pewaukee commercial shop with a published Capitol Drive suite lock makes Gorski the industrial-CRE principal. Work email locked from the Apollo-first pass.
Owner, waterjet cutting shop · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Mark Isabell, owner of Pewaukee/Milwaukee FINAL CUT Waterjet Service (gotofinalcut.com). Not other fabricators named Isabell.
$450,000
Mark Isabell owns FINAL CUT Waterjet Service, the Southeast Wisconsin abrasive-waterjet cutting and fabrication shop whose first-party site publishes a Pewaukee planning-and-billing office at N41W27360 Roger Rd., Pewaukee, WI 53072 and a Milwaukee shop at N5834 N 97th Street, Milwaukee, WI 53225-2506, plus phone (262) 347-1685.
About copy says the shop selected Jet Edge CNC motion, JetEdge intensifier pumps and Accustream cutting heads, runs at 55,000 PSI on a 48-by-120-inch table, and cuts materials from 0.010 inch to 8.0 inches (aluminum, titanium, hardened steel, plastics, rubber, stone and ceramics) without a heat-affected zone. Domain and directory records list Isabell as the FINAL CUT owner and gotofinalcut.com registrant from February 8, 2011.
Owner of a single Pewaukee-officed waterjet shop with a published Roger Road office lock and a Milwaukee 97th Street shop makes Isabell the cutting principal on this slate. No person-tied founding year is used beyond the 2011 domain lock. Work email locked from the Apollo-first pass.
President and CEO, IT solutions firm · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Mark Jamieson, president and CEO of Pewaukee-based 2W Technologies, Inc. (2W Tech). Not other U.S. technology executives named Mark Jamieson.
$4 million+
Mark Jamieson is president and CEO of 2W Technologies, the Pewaukee Epicor and Microsoft IT shop whose first-party about page publishes headquarters at 1133 Quail Ct, Suite #315, Pewaukee, WI 53072. Company copy says 2W has more than 30 years in manufacturing and distribution technology, is one of the largest Epicor partners in North America with clients in more than 40 states and seven countries, and is a Microsoft Tier 1 Cloud Solutions Provider named by CRN among North America's top managed-service providers for five consecutive years.
The first-party team page says Jamieson has been president and CEO since 2012 and is focused on value for clients, team members and investors; it notes University of Arizona and Kellogg School of Business degrees. A 2025 anniversary post from Jamieson thanked founder Diana on the firm's 34th year and described 2W as keeping the heart of a family-owned business. LinkedIn company materials date the privately held firm to 1985.
Named president and CEO of a single Pewaukee IT shop with a documented 2012 operating lock and a published Quail Court suite makes Jamieson the technology principal on this slate. Diana is the named founder; first-party copy also references investors. Work email locked from the Apollo-first pass.
Owner, insurance agency · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Mark Lindow, owner of Pewaukee-based American Advantage–Lindow Insurance and a 1997 co-founder of American Advantage Insurance Group. Not Jon Oaks (listed president of the Pewaukee office).
$1.5 million+
Mark Lindow owns American Advantage–Lindow Insurance, the independent Pewaukee agency at 2311 W. Silvernail Road that writes personal and business coverage for Wisconsin families. Directory and LinkedIn company materials name him owner while listing Jon Oaks as president of the Pewaukee office—owner-of-record versus day-to-day president, the same split used on other family and agency slates.
In June 1997 Lindow joined Mike Plumley, Russ Boie and Bill Petersen to form American Advantage Insurance Group as a cooperative of independently owned agencies rather than a roll-up merger. Group history quotes Lindow on rotating leadership and personal-lines expertise; the Pewaukee Lindow agency remains a distinct member shop, not the group headquarters story.
A documented Pewaukee street, multi-decade owner title and AAIG founding role lock Lindow as the insurance-agency principal. No person-tied work email is used here.
Owner, classic and exotic restoration shop · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Matt Backhaus, founder and owner of StreetWorks Exotics, the classic and exotic restoration shop at 600 Hickory St., Pewaukee (first-party history: founded 1999; Pewaukee shop 2022). Not other Wisconsin restorers named Backhaus.
$3 million+
Matt Backhaus owns StreetWorks Exotics, the Pewaukee restoration shop that first-party history says he founded in 1999. The company shared space with a British-car specialist in Waukesha before expanding to 600 Hickory Street in 2022 and now markets factory-correct restoration and service for postwar sports and GT cars, vintage racecars, muscle cars and hot rods.
StreetWorks' about page traces an early Jaguar and Triumph book to a 2004 Iso Grifo 350GT shown at Pebble Beach and later award mentions at Quail, Amelia and Villa d'Este. BBB lists Matt Backhaus as owner at the Hickory Street address and describes in-house paint, body, mechanical, engine, suspension and interior work.
Founder-owner of a single Pewaukee exotic-restoration shop with a first-party 1999 founding story and a current Hickory Street lock makes Backhaus the clear principal. The shop publishes a general Gmail inbox; no person-tied work email is used here.
CEO, residential real estate development and home building group · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Matt Neumann, second-generation CEO/chairman of Pewaukee-based Neumann Companies and founder/chairman of SunVest Solar. Not other Neumann-named builders outside this family group.
$20 million+
Matt Neumann is CEO of Neumann Companies, the Pewaukee family platform behind residential land development and home building brands across Wisconsin. A second-generation owner with roughly two decades in development, building, and solar, he also founded and chairs SunVest Solar, described on the company leadership page as Wisconsin's largest solar developer and among the top ten U.S. solar developers.
Neumann Developments materials credit more than 6,000 homesites across 6,500 acres in 50-plus municipalities, with more than 3,000 acres of preserved green space and multiple Parade of Homes host sites. The family of companies has appeared repeatedly on Inc. 5000 lists of fast-growing private firms.
Neumann's leadership page notes awards including Business Journal 40 Under 40, Professional Builder and Midwest Renewable Energy News honors, Wisconsin Way Future Leader of the Year, and Metropolitan Builders Association Builder/Developer of the Year. He and his wife Amy live in Wisconsin with four children; the corporate office is in Pewaukee.
President and chief executive officer; second-generation family-business leader · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Matthew D. “Matt” Zorn, president and CEO of Pewaukee-headquartered Zorn Compressor & Equipment. Not Executive Chairman John Zorn (father) or VP/Secretary-Treasurer Katie Marks (sister).
$4 million+
Matthew Zorn leads Zorn Compressor & Equipment, the Pewaukee family distributor of industrial compressed-air and vacuum systems that his father, John Zorn, purchased in 2001 and rebranded from Cochrane Compressor. Matt began part-time in the Madison service department while in college, joined full-time after graduating from UW–Madison in 1996, and rose through sales and marketing before becoming president in 2009 and president and CEO in 2022.
Under the Zorn family’s ownership, the company spread from its Pewaukee corporate campus into a seven-branch Upper Midwest network—five Wisconsin locations plus Illinois branches in Gurnee (2011) and Woodridge (2018)—serving manufacturers, pharmaceuticals, food and beverage plants, municipalities and hospitals that treat compressed air as a critical utility. A separate Pewaukee installation-and-piping facility supports engineered system builds.
Three generations now work the business: John remains executive chairman; Matt’s sister Katie Marks is vice president, secretary and treasurer; and Matt’s children Emma and Pat have entered marketing and rentals. Second-generation operating control, a multi-state service footprint and an explicit family succession plan keep the company anchored in Pewaukee.
Co-owner, marine and RV storage and retail · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Matthew Kreitlow, co-owner of Supreme Marine & RV at the former Eaton plant on Hickory Street with Alyssa Kreitlow. Not Ken Kreitlow (father; Beachside Boat & Bait / quoted as general manager in 2021 coverage).
$2 million+
Matthew Kreitlow co-owns Supreme Marine & RV, the boat and RV storage, service and retail operation that took over the former Eaton plant at 1045 Hickory Street in Pewaukee. April 2021 Freeman coverage said the family had purchased the plant to convert about 70,000 square feet into heated storage, that Matt and Alyssa Kreitlow owned the business, and that their father Ken Kreitlow—owner of Beachside Boat & Bait—was speaking as general manager during the move-in.
Kreitlow's professional profile lists him as owner from January 2021 and describes a family-run Lake Country storage and retail supercenter offering sales, service and storage. First-party contact materials publish the Hickory Street campus and a general info inbox, not a person-tied work email.
Co-owner of a single Pewaukee marine/RV campus with a documented plant purchase and a current Hickory Street lock makes Kreitlow the equity principal. Ken remains the older public spokesman in 2021 press; the desk prefers Matt as named owner alongside Alyssa.
Chief executive officer; fourth-generation family-business leader · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Matthew Powell, CEO and fourth-generation steward of Pewaukee-headquartered Century Companies, parent of Century Fence, Century Traffic and Century Security. Not another executive or public figure named Matthew Powell.
$8 million+
Matthew Powell is the fourth-generation chief executive of Century Companies, the Pewaukee family enterprise built around commercial fencing, traffic control, pavement marking, access control and security. He moved into the CEO role in 2024 after serving as president of Century Fence, bringing a long-horizon ownership philosophy to a business incorporated in 1917.
Before joining the family company, Powell worked in investment banking and mergers and acquisitions. His leadership profile emphasizes modernization without a private-equity-style exit clock: a 2025 Wisconsin Titan 100 profile credits his tenure with quadrupling the top line, multiplying the bottom line tenfold and replacing legacy workflows with databases and customer-management systems.
The platform has continued to spread beyond Wisconsin. Century broke ground on a $2.467 million, 10,000-square-foot facility in Wilton, Iowa, in 2024, adding fabrication and warehouse capacity to branches in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Powell frames that expansion as stewardship—building an institution intended to compound across generations rather than optimizing for a short sale.
Principal owner, commercial real estate brokerage · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Matthew Quest, principal owner of Pewaukee-based Capital Commercial, LLC (capital-cre.com). UW–Madison men's basketball alum; previously Wangard and Associates. Not other Wisconsin brokers named Quest.
$3 million+
Matthew Quest is the principal owner of Capital Commercial, LLC, the Pewaukee commercial-brokerage first-party team copy says he formed after Wangard and Associates. The firm site places him as principal owner, cites more than $100 million in completed sales and more than 1.5 million square feet leased, and publishes 153 Park Avenue, Pewaukee, WI 53072.
Quest graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1999 with a business-marketing degree emphasizing real estate and construction and played on the Wisconsin men's basketball team. He is a licensed Wisconsin real-estate broker and a member of the Commercial Association of Realtors Wisconsin and the Waukesha County Business Alliance. A September 4, 2009 PR.com release named him on a $465,000 Waukesha office buy for Centurion Inc. at 1605 Manhattan Drive and identified him with Marc Schmidt, CCIM, as acting principals. LinkedIn dates the principal-owner title from October 2004.
Principal of a single Pewaukee commercial shop with a documented 2004 start and a published Park Avenue lock makes Quest the CRE principal. Work email locked from the Apollo-first pass.
Chief executive officer and co-owner, CRM and digital-marketing consulting firm · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Melanie R. Varin, co-owner and CEO (appointed 2025) of Pewaukee-based TopLine Results. Not founder/chairman Fred Varin, her husband.
$1.5 million+
Melanie Varin is chief executive and co-owner of TopLine Results, the Pewaukee CRM strategy, implementation and digital-marketing consultancy Fred Varin founded in 1999. She joined the executive team as chief operating officer in 2017 after sales and marketing leadership roles at Kodak and GE HealthCare, then succeeded Fred as CEO in June 2025 while he moved to chairman of the board.
TopLine positions itself as a full-service revenue-operations partner—CRM selection and implementation, integrated digital marketing and process alignment—for clients across more than 25 states and several countries. Melanie has made RevOps a public leadership theme, including authorship of Ignite TopLine Growth: How RevOps and Go-To-Market Alignment Spark Success.
The Pewaukee headquarters and a Chicago office anchor a services business that stands apart from the manufacturers and contractors that dominate the local professional slate. BizTimes covered the 2025 succession as a planned transition inside a co-owned family firm, giving Melanie both an operating-CEO story and an equity stake distinct from Fred’s founder narrative.
Owner, pest control company · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Michael W. Werner (Mike), owner/operator of Pewaukee-based Pest Management Solutions, LLC, founded 2005. Not other U.S. pest-control operators named Michael Werner.
$500,000
Michael Werner owns Pest Management Solutions, LLC, the Pewaukee pest-control shop first-party history says he has run as owner/operator after providing residential and commercial work since 1994. The company site dates the LLC to 2005 and BBB lists Mr. Michael W. Werner as owner at PO Box 634, Pewaukee, WI 53072.
First-party copy says the firm holds Wisconsin structural, termite, mosquito and aquatic licenses (state-certified #044772, licensed #145276-CA), that Werner trained at Purdue and Texas A&M, is AIB certified, and has served as vice president of the Wisconsin Pest Control Association. LinkedIn lists him as owner from April 2005 and a UW–Madison certified master technician.
Owner-operator of a single Pewaukee pest-control LLC with a documented 2005 start and a BBB owner lock is enough for a services principal. Published contact is a PO Box, not a street shop. No person-tied work email is used here.
Owner and president, precision-component manufacturer's representative · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Mike Schieble, owner and president of Pewaukee-based Gorham Incorporated (precision component solutions; aluminum extrusions, machining, castings, stampings, molding, fabrications, powder metal). Joined 2008; owner from 2014. Not other Wisconsin manufacturers named Schieble.
$2 million+
Mike Schieble is owner and president of Gorham Incorporated, the Pewaukee precision-component manufacturer's representative first-party materials date to 1944. The company contact page publishes N28 W23050 Roundy Drive, Suite 104, Pewaukee, WI 53072, phone 262-446-4431, and a general sales inbox.
Gorham's team page says Schieble joined in 2008 and now runs day-to-day operations, manufacturer relationships, the sales team and strategy. Before Gorham he spent seven years at W.W. Grainger managing Texas government contracts. He holds a BA in business administration from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an MBA in strategic leadership from the University of Dallas. LinkedIn lists vice-president work from May 2008 and owner/president from January 2014.
Owner-president of a single Pewaukee component-rep shop with a documented 2014 ownership title and a published Roundy Drive suite makes Schieble the manufacturing principal. Work email locked from the Apollo-first pass.
President and CEO, rotary dryer manufacturer / industrial fabricator · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Mike (Michael) Uzelac, founder/president/CEO of Uzelac Industries since 2003 (acquired Poja Sheet Metal; later Duske Engineering). Family-led firm now based at City of Pewaukee plant. Not daughter/son-in-law leadership figures featured in BizTimes legacy coverage.
$3 million+
Mike Uzelac founded Uzelac Industries in 2003 and still runs the company as president and CEO after relocating production from Greendale into a new City of Pewaukee plant. The firm designs and builds direct-fired rotary dryers that turn industrial waste streams into marketable by-products, and it sells large-scale metal fabrication services alongside dryer systems.
In 2024 BizTimes reported plans for a 39,000-square-foot Pewaukee building; by September 2025 the Waukesha Freeman covered the completed move into the City of Pewaukee campus. Coverage put employment near 26 people with crane bays sized for heavy dryer fabrication and room on the site for a future doubling of footprint.
Uzelac's company bio notes a UW–Whitewater management degree and more than four decades across HR, operations, and general management before buying Poja Sheet Metal and folding in Duske Engineering. The Pewaukee campus is now the clearest geographic lock for a manufacturer that spent two decades identified with Greendale.
Owner, flooring contractor · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Nathan Troudt, owner of Pewaukee-based Nu-Look Flooring Systems (decorative concrete coatings and floor prep). Not other flooring operators named Troudt.
$550,000
Nathan Troudt owns Nu-Look Flooring Systems, the Pewaukee decorative-concrete and floor-prep contractor his professional profile dates to April 2017. Company materials say the firm applies industrial-grade coatings for residential and commercial jobs and also handles flooring removal, joint filling, cast-in-place concrete and sealing; LinkedIn company copy dates the business to 2016.
First-party contact copy publishes only PO Box 813, Pewaukee, WI 53072 and phone 262-505-2536, plus a general info inbox. Service pages describe subcontracted concrete preparation with diamond grinders and shot-blasters. A 2020 LinkedIn post from Troudt documented a Lexus of Brookfield car-wash coating job.
Owner of a single Pewaukee flooring shop with a documented mid-2010s start and a first-party Pewaukee PO Box lock makes Troudt the coatings principal. No public street shop is published, and no person-tied work email is used here.
Co-founder and chief executive officer, electromechanical manufacturer · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Neil Karolek, co-founder, first president and current CEO of Pewaukee-based TLX Technologies. Distinct from Katrina Goetz, current TLX president (already covered on site in PEWAUKEE-PROS-10). Do not conflate founder/CEO Karolek with president Goetz.
$5 million+
Neil Karolek co-founded TLX Technologies in 1996 to develop a high-speed digital valve that could control the force of vehicle-airbag inflation. When federal requirements changed and erased that first market, he redirected the patented technology into fire protection, automotive, industrial and consumer applications—an early pivot that shaped the Pewaukee manufacturer's diversification strategy.
Under Karolek, TLX won General Motors work, became a Tier 1 Harley-Davidson supplier, collected multiple patents and expanded internationally. State export programs helped it develop European representation and early China business; the company moved into its larger Pewaukee production, engineering and testing campus in 2012 and opened a wholly owned Changshu, China subsidiary in 2015.
Karolek served as TLX's first president until January 2025, when longtime finance and operations executive Katrina Goetz took that role and he became CEO. The current product base spans custom solenoids, actuators, valves, sensing and IoT-enabled components. Karolek's founder-equity path remains distinct from Goetz's operating-president story already on the Pewaukee slate.
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.
Founder, racket-sports equipment manufacturer · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Nicholas (Nick) Aho, founder of Pewaukee-based Carve Sports / Carve Tennis LLC. Distinct from his separate Upside Properties LLC house-flipping shop. Not other U.S. sporting-goods operators named Aho.
$350,000
Nicholas Aho founded Carve Sports, the Pewaukee direct-to-consumer tennis-racket and pickleball-paddle manufacturer first-party terms style as Carve Tennis LLC (also Carve Pickleball / Carve Racket Sports). The contact page publishes N30 W23861 Green Rd., #6, Pewaukee WI 53072, phone (414) 436-5293, and a support inbox. His professional profile lists him as founder at Carve Sports from June 2023 in Pewaukee.
The Freeman (June 11, 2024) identified Nick Aho as the Pewaukee founder who launched AllCourt and AdTouch pickleball paddles and tennis rackets on May 13 after a Waukesha North High 2015 graduation and a 2019 UW–Madison industrial-and-systems-engineering degree. An AOL reprint of the same Lake Country coverage said he formed the shop to sell high-quality equipment at a reasonable cost without marketing hype, manufactures in China to keep costs down, was then the owner and sole employee, and also buys and sells houses.
Named founder of a single Pewaukee racket-sports LLC with a published Green Road lock makes Aho the Carve principal on this slate. Upside Properties unused as the desk. Work email locked from the Apollo-first pass.
Chief executive officer, industrial mixing-equipment manufacturer · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Nicholas “Nick” Passint, CEO of Pewaukee-based Mixer Systems since 2025; previously president after the 2023 recapitalization. Not former CEO Doug Duley or second-generation former owners Lesley Hill and David Boles.
$2 million+
Nicholas Passint is chief executive of Mixer Systems, the Pewaukee manufacturer of concrete, glass and environmental mixing and batching equipment. He joined the company in 2022, became president during its 2023 ownership transition and moved into the CEO seat in April 2025, after earlier engineering and project-management work at Pflow Industries.
Mixer's 2023 recapitalization was its first ownership change outside the Boles family since William Boles founded the company in 1979. Lesley Hill and David Boles sold a majority interest to a Milwaukee growth partner and participating Mixer executives while retaining minority stakes. Passint, then general manager, was promoted to president and became the public contact for the transition.
The Pewaukee plant markets itself as North America's largest supplier of mixing and batching equipment, with American-made systems delivered to customers in more than 52 countries. Passint brings both technical and commercial training: engineering mechanics from UW–Madison, an MBA in international business and logistics from UW–Milwaukee, and a 2025 Kellogg executive certificate.
Political leader; businessman · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Born Odilon Fish, June 16, 1925, Sauk Centre, Minnesota; longtime Pewaukee resident; died Feb. 6, 2007, at home in Pewaukee
$1,500,000
Ody J. Fish made Pewaukee a statewide Republican address. Born Odilon Fish in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, on June 16, 1925, he built a Waukesha County business and party career that put the lake town on Madison and Washington call sheets. He chaired and vice-chaired the Waukesha County GOP, managed Warren P. Knowles’s successful 1964 gubernatorial campaign, then ran the Republican Party of Wisconsin as state chairman from 1965 to 1970. Contemporary press routinely identified him as “of Pewaukee.”
From 1971 to 1984 he served as Wisconsin’s Republican National Committeeman and managed the 1976 Republican National Convention. A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel remembrance noted that he turned down a call from President Nixon rather than leave the independent lane he preferred. Parallel to party work, he sat on the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents from 1970 to 1997, spanning the system merger era, and later pressed campaign-finance and open-meeting reforms through Common Cause in Wisconsin.
He married Mary Ellen Koebke; they had two children. Fish died of esophageal cancer at his Pewaukee home on February 6, 2007, remembered as a party boss who called parties a “kinder mistress” than candidate-centered money politics.
Owner, gym and fitness studios · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Patrick Ziebell, founder, owner and president/CEO of Strength Evolution (formerly Fitness Evolution / Evolution Exercise and Spine Centers), Pewaukee Lake Country studio plus Wauwatosa and Madison. John Nall co-founded the original Pewaukee studio in 1997 and sold his interest in 2004.
$1.5 million+
Patrick Ziebell owns Strength Evolution, the one-on-one strength studio he founded in 1997 and still leads as president and CEO. First-party about copy says he holds all five University of Florida MedX clinical strengthening credentials, ACE, NSCA and SuperSlow certifications, and an MBA from Marquette, and markets 30-minute supervised sessions on retrofitted MedX machines.
The Lake Country studio sits at N22 W27847 Edgewater Drive in the Lake House building across from Pewaukee Lake, with additional rooms at 933 N. Mayfair Road in Wauwatosa and 6502 Normandy Lane in Madison. LinkedIn lists Ziebell as owner from June 1997. Collaborator bios say John Nall helped open Fitness Evolution in Pewaukee in 1997 and sold his interest in 2004; Ziebell remained the continuing owner.
Founder-owner of a multi-studio HIT practice with a documented Pewaukee lake-view address and 1997 start makes Ziebell the fitness principal. Studios publish a general info inbox; no person-tied work email is used here.
President, CEO and owner, residential homebuilder · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Paul Bielinski, son of co-founder Frank Bielinski and current family CEO/owner of Pewaukee-based Bielinski Homes. Not founders Frank or Harry Bielinski.
$5 million+
Paul Bielinski leads one of southeastern Wisconsin's longest-running family homebuilders from its Pewaukee design-center headquarters. Brothers Frank and Harry Bielinski started the business in 1960; Paul joined in 2001, became chief executive in 2018 and added ownership and vice-president responsibilities at the end of 2019.
The company's timeline credits the Bielinski family with more than 12,000 homes and condominiums. Paul arrived after eight years building a career on the East Coast and rose from marketing director to chief operating officer, a post he held from 2003 until taking the top job. His 2018 agenda included a customer-communication push branded “Friendlier Bielinski.”
Bielinski also pushed digital tools into a traditionally hands-on sales process, including a room visualizer and online design studio. The firm remains family-operated more than six decades after its first garages and houses, giving Paul both an operating-company story and a multigenerational ownership stake anchored in Pewaukee.
Owner, concrete contractor · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Paul Peterson, owner and BBB-listed president of Bud's Concrete, LLC, Pewaukee. Bought the company in 2001. Not other Wisconsin contractors named Paul Peterson.
$1 million+
Paul Peterson owns Bud's Concrete, LLC, the Pewaukee concrete contractor BBB lists him as president of at W280 N4975 Jerilane Court. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's March 13, 2011 report said he bought the company in 2001, then employed about five people on Waukesha County residential driveways from April to November.
That same piece covered Bud's 2009 lawsuit against Central Ready Mixed (later Prairie Material) over crumbling 2006–2007 driveways. A Waukesha jury awarded Bud's about $1.1 million after finding the supplier breached its contract; Peterson told the paper he sued rather than go bankrupt and that reputation in the trade is word-of-mouth. The 2012 court of appeals decision again names him as owner.
Owner-president of a single Pewaukee concrete LLC with a documented 2001 purchase and a Jerilane Court lock makes Peterson the trades principal. No person-tied work email is used here.
Founder and owner, hockey training center · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Peter Dale, founder and owner/operator of Farm Tough Hockey / The Farm, the hockey training center at N51W25213 Lisbon Road, Pewaukee. Former pro roller hockey player (St. Louis Vipers; Team USA). Not other U.S. coaches named Peter Dale.
$800,000
Peter Dale is founder and owner/operator of Farm Tough Hockey, the Pewaukee off-rink training center he built after buying a 5½-acre farm in 2007. First-party copy publishes N51W25213 Lisbon Rd., Pewaukee, WI 53072, names him founder, and markets skills training, sports performance, mental toughness and nutrition.
His Meet Peter Dale page says he has taught more than 30,000 players over 30 years, played college ice hockey at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, skated with the Des Moines Buccaneers organization, and won six world titles with Team USA roller hockey plus pro time with the St. Louis Vipers (RHI) and Heavy Metal (ESPN Pro Beach Hockey). Coaching lines include JR USA roller, Wisconsin high-school varsity ice, and Farm Tough roller clubs from U6 to pro. LinkedIn lists him as founder of Farm Tough Hockey in Pewaukee.
Owner-operator of a single Pewaukee hockey farm with a documented 2007 conversion and a published Lisbon Road lock makes Dale the training principal. Work email locked from the Apollo-first pass.
President, CEO and owner, office interiors dealer · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Peter Kordus, president, CEO and owner of Pewaukee-based M&M Office Interiors after the 2021 acquisition. Not other Wisconsin furniture executives named Kordus.
$3 million+
Peter Kordus is president, CEO and owner of M&M Office Interiors, the Pewaukee workplace-furniture dealer first-party materials date to 1961. The company team and home pages publish the Milwaukee-area showroom at W233 N2833 Roundy Circle West, Suite 100, Pewaukee, WI 53072, phone 262.781.2600, and list Kordus as president/CEO with a person-tied work inbox. A Madison/Middleton showroom is a second public location, not the Pewaukee desk lock.
BizTimes reported on October 19, 2021 that Kordus and local investors acquired the firm and that he succeeded former owner Tim Rudd; the deal closed September 30. The same story said Kordus spent 30 years at Pewaukee dealer Building Service Inc., including 18 years as president and COO, left BSI in 2017, and had known Rudd for more than 20 years. First-party team copy adds a Carroll College (Waukesha) degree and prior chair roles at the International Office Products and Furniture Dealers Association and Workplace Furnishings.
Named president, CEO and owner of a single Pewaukee office-interiors dealer with a documented 2021 acquisition and a published Roundy Circle West showroom lock makes Kordus the ownership principal on this slate. Work email locked from the Apollo-first pass.
Owner, president and CEO, commercial general contractor · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Peter Schwabe, third-generation sole owner / president & CEO (from 2022) of family GC Peter Schwabe, Inc. (founded 1927 by grandfather Peter). Not father Dan Schwabe (prior president/CEO; remains chairman/advisor).
$3 million+
Peter Schwabe is the third-generation owner, president, and CEO of Peter Schwabe, Inc., the commercial general contractor that moved its headquarters into Ridgeview Corporate Park in 2024. BizTimes covered the roughly 7,500-square-foot Ridgeview lease under a Pewaukee headline even as the firm's contact block also uses a Waukesha ZIP common to that campus.
He purchased the business and assumed top leadership in 2022 under a family succession agreement with prior president and CEO Dan Schwabe, who remains board chairman and advisor. The firm, founded in 1927, is known for chain retail and restaurant work—including a multi-decade McDonald's relationship—plus auto dealers, health-care, industrial, and education projects.
Schwabe's company bio cites prior roles as controller, vice president, CFO, and board member, plus community service with Women's Care Center of Milwaukee, WCTC's building trades committee, and Waukesha County Business Alliance construction education work. The Ridgeview move framed a second-century push for a more cohesive workspace after years in Brookfield's Bishop's Woods.
Founder and owner, veterinary hospital · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Randolph J. Schuett (display Randy Schuett), DVM, founder and owner/president of Pewaukee Veterinary Service, S.C., opened 1977. Not Jeffrey J. Schuett, DVM (brother; owner/vice president). Practice-site bios list Randy as retired from clinical work while remaining a founding owner.
$2 million+
Randy Schuett—full name Randolph J. Schuett, DVM—founded Pewaukee Veterinary Service in 1977 as a mixed-animal practice and remains a named owner. First-party about copy says brother Dr. Jeff Schuett soon joined him; the hospital is still family-owned, and BBB lists Randolph J. Schuett as DVM/owner/president and Jeffrey J. Schuett as DVM/owner/vice president at N29 W23950 Schuett Drive.
The veterinarians page lists Dr. Randy Schuett as retired from clinical practice, a Kansas State undergraduate and DVM, former Wisconsin Veterinary Medical Association president, and a laparoscopy teacher who traveled to share technique. The public professional story is the hospital he opened on the street that now carries the family name.
Founder and still-listed owner-president of a single Pewaukee veterinary S.C., a 1977 start and a Schuett Drive campus lock him as the equity principal even after clinical retirement. Jeff is the other owner; the desk prefers Randy as founder. No person-tied work email is used here.
President, technical college · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Richard (Rich) Barnhouse, Ph.D., president of Pewaukee-campus WCTC since January 5, 2021. Succeeded Kaylen Betzig. Not other Barnhouse education administrators.
$900,000
Rich Barnhouse has led Waukesha County Technical College from its Pewaukee main campus since January 2021, earning a spot on BizTimes' Wisconsin 275 list of influential business leaders. The college reports enrollment of more than 17,000 students and more than 1,500 staff and faculty, anchoring workforce training for Waukesha County employers.
Under Barnhouse, WCTC built an applied AI lab and launched an AI Data Specialist associate degree—described as Wisconsin's first two-year AI degree. His path includes vice president of student services and enrollment management at State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota; associate vice chancellor roles in the UW Colleges; dean of students at Moraine Park Technical College; and earlier student-affairs posts at UW–Sheboygan, South Carolina, and Rice.
Barnhouse holds a Ph.D. from Cardinal Stritch, a master's from Central Michigan, and a bachelor's from Brock University, plus Harvard Institute for Educational Management training. His wife Tiffany grew up in Pewaukee—the hire announcement framed the return as a Wisconsin homecoming as much as a presidential appointment.
Owner, HVAC contractor · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Richard J. Hanan (Rick), owner/president of Assured Heating & Cooling (Assured Heating-Cooling & Duct Cleaning, Inc.) at 477 Park Ave., Pewaukee. Kimberly Hanan is listed as office manager. Not other Wisconsin HVAC contractors named Hanan.
$800,000
Richard J. Hanan owns Assured Heating & Cooling, the Pewaukee HVAC and duct-cleaning contractor BBB and licensing directories place at 477 Park Avenue. BBB lists him as president and Kimberly Hanan as office manager under the alternate legal name Assured Heating-Cooling & Duct Cleaning, Inc.; BuildZoom and related contractor records name Richard J. Hanan as owner of the licensed HVAC firm.
Local directories also style him Rick Hanan, owner, and some older listings show a 215 Oakton Avenue address. The desk uses the Park Avenue street published on the current BBB profile and the locked Pewaukee map rather than the older Oakton line.
Owner-president of a single Pewaukee HVAC shop with a consistent Park Avenue lock is enough for a trades principal. Consumer-press depth is thinner than restaurant and vet peers; the BBB/licensing owner match is the publishable through-line, and no person-tied work email is used.
Co-founder and owner, industrial automation and motion-control distributor · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Rick Futter, co-founder with Barb Futter of Pewaukee-headquartered Automation Solutions of WI (1998). Not an OEM factory principal; the firm is a distributor/integrator for pneumatics, vacuum, actuators, sensors, vision, motion and related automation. Rick is the selected subject.
$2 million+
Rick Futter co-founded Automation Solutions of WI with Barb Futter in 1998, building a Pewaukee-based distributor around pneumatics, vacuum, electric actuators, sensors, vision systems, motion control, mechatronics, profile systems and hydraulics. The company's first-party about page frames an "Innovative Solutions by Design" mission and core values of integrity, respect, excellence, innovation, passion and empowerment aimed at OEM and industrial customers that need application engineering as much as catalog parts.
From the Pewaukee headquarters—also noting a Mequon facility in some directory vintages—Automation Solutions positions proprietary approaches such as Pneumatic System Saver design to cut engineering time and total cost of ownership for clients. Public depth is strongest in first-party materials and trade directories rather than BizTimes features, which is typical for industrial distribution principals.
Futter supplies a services and distribution owner distinct from the manufacturing CEOs already on the Pewaukee slate, with a clear 1998 founding date and a published Pewaukee headquarters. Naming Barb as co-founder keeps the origin honest while Rick remains the selected equity principal.
Co-owner, lakeside sports bar · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Ryan Gardner, co-owner with wife April Gardner of Curly's Waterfront Sports Bar & Grill on Pewaukee Lake. Purchased from Kevin "Curly" Kleczka's estate on March 1, 2023 after roughly 22 years as an employee and general manager. Not Kevin Kleczka (founder/namesake).
$450,000
Ryan Gardner co-owns Curly's Waterfront Sports Bar & Grill, the lakeside Pewaukee staple he and his wife April bought from Kevin "Curly" Kleczka's estate on March 1, 2023. Gardner started at the door in 2000 after friends took him there on his 21st birthday, then worked bartender, shift manager, assistant manager and about a decade as general manager before the purchase.
Kleczka had renamed the rebuilt waterfront bar in 2000 and died in March 2022. Estate contacts told Gardner that Kleczka wanted him to own it someday; Gardner said he did not want the brand he had spent 22 years building sold out of the community. Local coverage frames the handoff as an employee-to-owner succession meant to keep a City of Pewaukee lake-view hangout intact.
As co-owner of a single lakeside sports bar rather than a restaurant group, Gardner is the operating principal on a well-documented Pewaukee address. The Freeman, CBS 58 and OnMilwaukee pieces lock the 2023 purchase, April as co-owner and the W272 N2696 Lakeview Boulevard location—without a published person-tied work email.
President and chief executive officer, commercial paving and concrete contractor (Pave America platform) · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Ryan Laughlin, president/CEO of Pewaukee-based PLM Paving & Concrete after Grove Mountain Partners' platform build and the later Pave America combination. Not sole founder; not legacy president-owner Theodore J. Balistreri.
$3 million+
Ryan Laughlin leads PLM Paving & Concrete, the Pewaukee commercial asphalt, concrete and civil contractor whose local campus anchors a Southeast Wisconsin–to–Green Bay footprint. Brought in by the prior owner to grow the business, he rose through sales, estimating and dispatch into COO/CFO and, around a Grove Mountain Partners investment, into president and then CEO.
Under that private-equity chapter, PLM consolidated Midwest paving companies, installed capital-budget and performance systems, and—per Grove Mountain's case study—roughly tripled overall earnings in under two years before a larger consolidator acquired the platform; operators and Grove retained equity. PLM's own history marks the 2023 join to Pave America, the national commercial paving consolidator, while keeping the Pewaukee operating identity.
The company traces roots to a 1966 striping business, a 1987 ownership change that created Parking Lot Maintenance, and a 2004 rebrand to PLM Paving and Concrete. Laughlin's story is the PE-operator chapter on that corridor—liquidity and scale as sitting platform CEO, not a sole-founder narrative.
Owner, dry cleaner · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Sandy Mielke, president/owner of Quick Cleaners & Laundry Inc. at 2177 Silvernail Road, Suite D, Pewaukee. Not other Wisconsin cleaners named Mielke.
$550,000
Sandy Mielke owns Quick Cleaners & Laundry Inc., the Pewaukee dry cleaner and laundry she has operated from 2177 Silvernail Road, Suite D. Her professional profile lists overlapping owner/president titles from 1984 and describes a full-service on-site plant. MapQuest and local listings repeat the Silvernail suite and (262) 549-9477.
Customer reviews name Sandy as the owner who runs last-minute and same-day orders; a designer case study on the shop's later website said the cleaner had more than 30 years in the trade before getting a modern site. The Wisconsin Fabricare Institute has listed her with Quick Cleaners.
Owner of a single Pewaukee dry-cleaning Inc. with a multi-decade 1984 start and a published Silvernail suite makes Mielke the clear laundry principal. No person-tied work email is published in the sources used here.
Founder and president, industrial automation integrator · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Scott Woida, founder and president of Midwest Engineered Systems, the custom automation and robotics integrator headquartered in the City of Pewaukee (Waukesha postal label on the campus).
$10 million+
Scott Woida founded Midwest Engineered Systems in 1991 as a one-person operation in his parents' basement. The early shop built systems for brake and air-conditioner hose production; it grew into a custom automation and robotics integrator serving manufacturers with welding, material handling, web handling, assembly and large-format additive-manufacturing systems.
By its 25th anniversary, MWES employed more than 150 people. BizTimes reported 160 employees across four facilities when the company leased an additional 60,000 square feet beside its 100,000-square-foot City of Pewaukee headquarters in 2016, capacity Woida said was needed for larger builds and the company's project pipeline.
The company's 30-year retrospective credits Woida with expanding a single-engineer startup into a multidisciplinary national provider. Newer capabilities include automated storage and retrieval systems and ADDere metal additive manufacturing for heavy industrial and aerospace work. Press places the headquarters in the City of Pewaukee even as mailing materials use a Waukesha postal label for the same campus.
Managing partner, workers' compensation attorney · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Sean Michael Spencer, managing partner of Spencer Law, S.C., in Pewaukee; Wisconsin bar since 2001 (Marquette Law). Practice focus workers' compensation. Not Thomas K. Houck (already in Pewaukee pros-10 PI firm).
$650,000
Sean Spencer runs Spencer Law from a Pewaukee office, concentrating his practice on Wisconsin workers' compensation matters. Avvo and directory listings identify him as managing partner of Spencer Law, S.C., licensed in Wisconsin since 2001 after graduating from Marquette University Law School.
Public profiles place the firm in Pewaukee and note membership in the Wisconsin Association of Worker's Compensation Attorneys since 2005. Unlike Pewaukee pros-10's Thomas Houck—whose firm office is Milwaukee with Village of Pewaukee civic ties—Spencer's business address is itself inside Pewaukee, giving a cleaner attorney lock for the city page.
Published biography beyond bar credentials and practice focus is thinner than the manufacturing and Wisconsin 275 subjects in this batch; the file is kept for occupation mix and Pewaukee office geography rather than padded magazine depth.
Owner and biological/holistic dentist · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Supriya K. Shetty, DDS, owner of Pewaukee-based Integrative Dental Solutions. Mentored by practice founder Dr. Ingo Guenther Mahn / holistic pioneers; not those mentors as the current equity principal. Lives Brookfield.
$2 million+
Supriya K. Shetty, DDS, owns Integrative Dental Solutions, the Pewaukee biological and holistic dental practice that draws Midwest patients for mercury-safe protocols, ceramic implants, ozone and laser therapies, PRP, sleep-apnea appliances and related whole-body care. An NYU College of Dentistry graduate originally from India, she credits Ayurvedic family roots and later mentorship in biological dentistry—including work connected to Dr. Mahn, the practice’s founder lineage—for shifting her away from conventional drill-and-fill.
NPI organization records list Shetty as owner of Integrative Dental Solutions LLC, and the practice site positions her as the lead biological dentist mentoring other clinicians on the team. Credentials highlighted in first-party materials include IAOMT accreditation, dental sleep-medicine and TMD mini-residencies, and board certifications in integrative biologic dental medicine and naturopathic medicine tracks.
Shetty lives in Brookfield with her husband and three children; the public professional story is the Pewaukee practice. Owner and lead biological dentist who succeeded into ownership—not a claim that she founded the IDS brand—gives her the specialty dental principal slot.
President, laboratory fuel-rating equipment manufacturer; regional president, North America, for parent industrial platform · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Tedd Zebrowski, president of Pewaukee-headquartered CFR Engines Inc. and Regional President, North America, for Paeonia Industries. Not a Paeonia Group Singapore principal; CFR is the Pewaukee operating company.
$850,000
Tedd Zebrowski runs CFR Engines from its Pewaukee plant, where the company manufactures the laboratory octane, cetane and aviation-gasoline rating systems that remain the global reference methods for motor-fuel certification. CFR's technology lineage reaches to the Cooperative Fuel Research era of the late 1920s; today's CFR Engines Inc. operates as a Paeonia Industries company within Singapore-based Paeonia Group's industrial platform.
As Regional President, North America for Paeonia, Zebrowski has been the public executive voice for platform growth—including the March 2025 acquisition of Michigan's Savant Group (Savant Labs, Tannas, King Refrigeration and related brands)—while CFR continues to ship F1/F2 octane, F5 cetane EFI and related systems from Pewaukee with a stated emphasis on U.S. sourcing and sustainability initiatives such as closed-loop water systems for engine testing.
Corporate operating-president status under a Singapore parent, the Savant acquisition press and CFR’s first-party Pewaukee footprint lock a PE-platform industrial story distinct from founder-owned shops. Zebrowski’s public voice is the North America regional president’s, not a founder-equity narrative.
Chair, president and CEO, electric transmission utility · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Teresa Mogensen, chair/president/CEO of Pewaukee-headquartered ATC. Returned as CEO August 2023 after earlier ATC tenure (2000–2007) and Xcel Energy SVP energy supply. Not other Mogensen professionals.
$4 million+
Teresa Mogensen is chair of the board, president, and chief executive officer of ATC, the Pewaukee-based transmission utility that owns and operates more than 10,000 miles of high-voltage lines across Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, and Illinois. She returned as president and CEO in August 2023 after helping build ATC from 2000 to 2007 during its formation as the country's first for-profit, transmission-only utility, and was named board chair in January 2024.
Between ATC chapters she was senior vice president, energy supply at Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy, responsible for a generation fleet of more than 80 plants producing over 20,000 megawatts for 3.7 million customers across eight states. ATC today employs more than 500 people across Wisconsin and Michigan offices and serves more than five million customers.
Mogensen holds bachelor's and MBA degrees from Marquette University. She serves on the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Edison Electric Institute boards, chairs NERC's Reliability Issues Steering Committee, and sits on an IEEE Power Engineering Society executive advisory committee.
Personal injury attorney; law firm partner/owner · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Thomas Kent Houck (born Richland Center, 1964), partner at Milwaukee personal-injury firm Jacobson, Schrinsky & Houck; active Village of Pewaukee civic boards. Not Jacob L. Schrinsky. UW-Platteville B.S.; Marquette J.D. cum laude 1996.
$2 million+
Thomas K. Houck is a Wisconsin personal-injury partner at Jacobson, Schrinsky & Houck whose public civic resume is rooted in the Village of Pewaukee. Admitted to the Wisconsin bar in 1996 after a Marquette University J.D. (cum laude) and a UW–Platteville B.S. (summa cum laude), he handles automobile and motorcycle accidents, brain injury, dog bites, slip-and-fall, and wrongful-death matters from the firm's Milwaukee practice.
The firm's community page lists Houck as currently active on the Village of Pewaukee Police Commission, Board of Election Canvassers, and Zoning Board of Appeals, with prior service as Zoning Board chairman plus roles on the Water Commission, Village/City merger committee, and Pewaukee Youth Baseball board. That local footprint supports a Pewaukee location assignment even though his law practice is based in Milwaukee.
Firm materials note appearances before Wisconsin and federal appellate courts. He has also supported UW-Richland alumni events as a Class of 1984 alumnus, rounding out a public profile that pairs Milwaukee courtroom work with Pewaukee civic service.
Owner and dentist, family dental practice · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Timothy R. Wall, DDS, owner of Wall Family Dentistry in Pewaukee after purchasing Dr. Maternowski’s Pewaukee practice in 1993. Not other Wisconsin dentists named Wall.
$1.5 million+
Dr. Timothy Wall has owned the Pewaukee dental practice now known as Wall Family Dentistry since 1993, when he purchased Dr. Maternowski’s office after earlier buying Dr. Gavahan’s Hartland practice in 1989. A Waukesha native who graduated from Catholic Memorial, St. Norbert College and Marquette University School of Dentistry, he has lived in Lake Country since 1988 and built the Village of Pewaukee office into a long-running family practice.
Wall’s professional credentials include past service as president of the Waukesha County Dental Association and two terms as an 8th District trustee, plus membership in the ADA, Wisconsin Dental Association, Academy of General Dentistry and Pierre Fauchard Academy. The practice markets comprehensive family and cosmetic dentistry from the Pewaukee address that has anchored his public identity for three decades.
As a purchase-and-hold general-practice owner, Wall offers a clear local equity story: association leadership, continuous Pewaukee ownership since 1993, and a patient-facing practice that does not depend on a hospital system or a multi-site DSO brand—useful physician depth on a contractor-heavy slate.
Orthodontist; practice owner; associate professor · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Todd W. Rasch, DDS, MS, board-certified orthodontist and owner of Rasch Orthodontics in Pewaukee. Lives in Pewaukee per practice bio. Not other Rasch/Rasche orthodontists outside Wisconsin.
$2 million+
Dr. Todd Rasch owns Rasch Orthodontics in Pewaukee and makes his home in the same community—an unusually clean residence-plus-practice Pewaukee lock for this batch. He is a board-certified orthodontist (American Board of Orthodontics) and a certified Invisalign and Invisalign Teen provider who also teaches one day a week as an associate professor in Marquette University's Department of Orthodontics.
Rasch earned a UW–Madison bachelor's (1996) and master's (1999), worked briefly in pharmaceuticals, then graduated at the top of his Marquette School of Dentistry class in 2006 before completing orthodontic specialty training and a master's at the University of Iowa in 2008. Practice materials stress lifelong continuing education and a family-centered office culture.
Outside the clinic he cites Pewaukee's lakeside setting and community as reasons his family chose both to live and work locally. Wife Ellen and children Eden and Wesley appear in the practice bio's community narrative.
President and founder, wealth management practice · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Anthony Scott (Tony) Carini, CRD# 1434330; president/founder of Diversified Wealth Strategies in Pewaukee; currently registered through Osaic Wealth, Inc. Not Kevin Reardon (Shakespeare Wealth, already in Pewaukee pros-10). Not other Carini professionals.
$2 million+
Tony Carini founded Diversified Wealth Strategies and runs the Pewaukee practice as president, earning a 2026 BizTimes Notable Leaders in Wealth Management profile. Public materials describe more than forty years advising individuals, families, and business owners on wealth accumulation, retirement income, estate strategies, and risk management, with a Certified Financial Fiduciary designation highlighted in the BizTimes feature.
IAPD filings place his current Osaic Wealth branch in Pewaukee after prior Pewaukee registrations with Woodbury Financial Services and earlier Waukesha and Brookfield affiliations. He previously served as vice president of BeneVest Inc. before launching Diversified Wealth Strategies, with the other-business start dated 2017 on IAPD.
Carini also presents financial-education seminars through Foundation for Financial Education Inc., using libraries and technical colleges as neutral venues. The Pewaukee office sits among other Lake Country professional suites, giving a clear city-page business lock for the practice he leads.
Founder and board member; industrial partitions and high-performance doors manufacturer · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Tony Goff, co-founder with father Bob Goff of Pewaukee-based Goff's Curtain Walls / Goff's Enterprises, now Goff's Performance Solutions. Not Bob Goff (autobody founder) or current president Josh Brown (appointed June 2026).
$8 million+
Tony Goff co-founded what became Goff’s Performance Solutions with his father, Bob Goff, after a flexible curtain idea born in the family’s Pewaukee autobody stalls. As a 19-year-old marketing student, Tony helped take the product to a Toronto collision-repair trade show; the first order came from a Texas shop, and between 1987 and 1990 the business ran from a card table in Bob’s office and then Tony’s childhood home next door.
Under Tony’s nearly four decades as president, Goff’s grew from body-shop partitions into a North American manufacturer of industrial curtain walls, welding and acoustic screens, strip doors, climate curtains and high-performance roll-up doors—serving food processing, aviation, manufacturing and material handling from an expanded Pewaukee campus after Inc. Magazine fast-growth years. In 2020 the Journal Sentinel covered the company’s pandemic pivot into clear personal safety partitions for restaurants and dental offices.
In June 2026 the company renamed as Goff's Performance Solutions and appointed Josh Brown president; Tony remains founder and a board member supporting the succession. Founder equity, a documented multi-decade manufacturing story and a clear Pewaukee headquarters keep him anchored as an industrial principal in the lake country.
NFL outside linebacker · Pewaukee, Wisconsin
NFL edge rusher for the Pittsburgh Steelers; youngest of the Watt brothers; born and raised in Pewaukee
$155 million
Trent Jordan “T.J.” Watt is the youngest of the Pewaukee Watt brothers and the Pittsburgh Steelers’ career sack leader. Where older brother J.J. became the face of Houston’s defense, T.J. built his own path as an edge rusher in black and gold, tying a single-season sack record and winning Defensive Player of the Year.
He was born in Pewaukee on October 11, 1994, and graduated from Pewaukee High School in 2013. That same year he won the Wisconsin state shot-put title, the third Watt to push the family mark their father John set in 1980. He followed J.J. and Derek to Wisconsin, missed most of his first two college seasons to injury, then erupted as a redshirt junior in 2016 with 11½ sacks and All-Big Ten honors. He played only twenty-two games as a Badger; fourteen of them came in that 2016 season, enough to make him a first-round pick.
Pittsburgh selected him in the first round in 2017. In 2021 he tied Michael Strahan’s single-season sack record at 22½ and won Defensive Player of the Year. He holds the Steelers’ career sack mark. Spotrac puts career cash at about $155 million through 2025. In May 2023 Pewaukee retired his No. 20 alongside Derek’s No. 16. The geography is the same Pewaukee raise as his brothers; the résumé is distinctly Pittsburgh.