Author Archives: lorihighby

073: What’s your favorite beer with Zak Koga

About Zak Koga Zak Koga is the co-founder of Karben4 Brewing where he operates the business on a daily basis. His education is in engineering and he worked for Findforff after college until the point at which he founded the brewery with his brother and best friend. His last complete construction project before making the […]

072: Functional versus chronological resumes with Erica Conway

About Erica Conway Hub, connector, joiner and match-maker all describes Erica’s roles at C2, a company she co-owns with her brother, as well as the roles she tries to play in the Milwaukee creative community. She even has a few weddings under her belt. Day-to-day you can find her juggling placement of creative talent, marketing […]

070: Finding similar ideologies throughout your network to accelerate your career with Jonathan Cooper

About Jonathon Cooper Jonathon is an entrepreneur who has been developing nascent platforms, for over 30 years. At times, the major portals of the time, About.com – building their first PPC search engines in the 90s to the early digital marketing leaders like Dotomi, now Conversant. Along with half a dozen other startups before crossing […]

069: The power of word of mouth in networking with Mollie Bartelt

Mollie Bartelt is the co-founder of Pixologie, a photo management company. With 20 years of non-profit and business management experience, she quit her career in 2014 when Pixologie opened its first location. In addition to running the Oak Creek studio, Bartelt studies the photo management habits and practices of consumers, businesses and organizations to help […]

068: Mean girls in the work place with Kira Lafond and Denise Thomas

About Kira Lafond & Denise Thomas Kira Lafond, Market President and publisher of Milwaukee Business Journal, oversees a team of talented professionals who help readers grow their business, advance their careers and simplify their professional lives. Previously, Kira served as Milwaukee Business Journal Director of Advertising for two years. She spent the balance of her […]