Centerline Design & Fabrication, a company offering turn-key solutions for end-to-end manufacturing, has signed a lease to move their operations from Waukegan, IL to Rawson Avenue in South Milwaukee at the former Bucyrus campus. The company had outgrown their space in Illinois and reached out to Milwaukee 7 and the City of South Milwaukee for assistance. 

The new space will allow them to expand operations, attract new projects, and potentially add staff.

MMAC is pleased to welcome Roger Roundhouse, CEO and board member of CentroMotion, to the organization’s board of directors.

CentroMotion is large, privately held designer and producer of a broad range of products and systems – including critical motion,  actuation, control and brake solutions – sold primarily to large global original equipment manufacturers.
 
Prior to his time at CentroMotion, Roundhouse served as Executive Vice and Group President and an Executive Officer at Actuant (now Enerpac Tool Group) – a global manufacturer of high force industrial tools and highly engineered position and motion control systems.

Last month the MMAC held our annual “Madison Night” in Milwaukee reception where the Mayor, County Executive and MMAC Government Affairs department hosted our elected leaders from the state capitol in Madison for an evening to get to know MMAC members and sponsors and our elected officials from the metro-Milwaukee region.

MMAC is pleased to announce the hiring of Khenzer Senat, Public Policy Analyst.
 
Khenzer comes to MMAC after spending six years at the Republican Party of Wisconsin where he was the African American Engagement Director. He has built relationships with faith-based leaders, business owners and community activist in the African American community; as well as recruited candidates to run for local and state offices in Wisconsin. He is a graduate of Wisconsin Lutheran College with a B.A in Communications, emphasis in Political Communications
 
“The MMAC Government Affairs team is thrilled to add Khenzer’s talents to the team,” said MMAC Vice President of Government Affairs Andrew Davis. “His eagerness and knowledge of Milwaukee’s issues will serve him, the organization and its members well.”
 
Away from work, Khenzer lives in West Allis with his wife, Heidi; son, Sebastian (14 months) and their Whippet/Retriever, Harmony.

No two stories are the same, and while they have similarities, Milwaukee County’s fiscal crisis is different from the City’s. However, it is a clear-and-present danger to the county’s future, and it does have a clear-and-present solution.

Every May, the nation celebrates Small Business Month for their leadership, courage, community efforts and hard work. Read about how your small- or medium-sized enterprise can get more involved with MMAC.
 
MMAC's small business community helps foster collaboration, innovation and growth, giving the Milwaukee region a more vibrant and resilient local economy.

The definition of a fiscal crisis is “the inability to bridge a deficit between expenditures and tax revenue.” The City of Milwaukee is in a fiscal crisis. 

On a $1B budget, the city begins next year with a $156M deficit, that – with a cost-to-continue budget – grows to $176 by 2026. Without substantial changes in expenditures or revenues these deficits become structural (ongoing).

At Goldstein Law Group, S.C., we serve as outside counsel to business. Accordingly, it is sometimes easy to forget that we, ourselves, are also in business. In February of this year, we celebrated our 15-year anniversary (and nearly 30 years of law practice for me).  It’s been quite a ride.

How can we connect with the next generation to help fill the Milwaukee region’s talent pipeline?
Bring together local businesses and students to spark an interest in a potential career.

Technology innovations manifest initially in enterprise organizations which allows cost effective delivery and consumption models to be developed for the small and medium business sector.

Read about four trends that have the potential to become mainstream in businesses of all sizes.

by Tim Sheehy, MMAC President



As Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers and the state Legislature mull over the question of increasing state shared revenue and providing Milwaukee with an additional sales tax, “yes” and “no” result in clearly differing outcomes.   

By Julia Burns, Co-Founder and Board President, Pathways High Milwaukee
 
What happens when you combine English Language Arts (ELA), philosophy, and a hands-on motorcycle engine conversion in one high school class? Student engagement and learning soar! That’s exactly the outcome for students in Pathways High’s “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” a seminar inspired by Robert Pirsig’s 1974 bestselling book by the same name.

The MMAC board ratified the election of two new directors on January 30, 2023. Additionally, 15 directors were re-elected to three-year terms. Austin Ramirez, president and CEO of Husco International was named Chair-Elect, succeeding current Chair Cathy Jacobsen, president, and CEO of Froedtert Health in 2024. The Board also approved the full slate of officers and three additional director appointments. 

MMAC coalition of companies significantly outpaces metro average for diverse hiring

MILWAUKEE – A group of 125-plus Milwaukee Region employers engaged in the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC) Region of Choice consortium remain on track to meet five-year goals for recruiting, retaining and advancing Black and Brown employees – and are significantly outpacing the overall region’s rate of diverse hiring.

Since launching the Region of Choice (ROC) initiative in 2019, MMAC has tracked the progress of the 125-plus companies and organizations representing a total of 127,000 employees that have committed to making Milwaukee a Region of Choice for diverse talent by increasing the percentages of Black and Brown employees (by 15% over five years) and managers (by 25% over five years) at those firms. Companies involved in ROC also meet regularly to identify trends and share best practices.