Marks Elected Next President of Competitive Wisconsin
Milwaukee – The Board of Directors of Competitive Wisconsin, Inc. (CWI) has elected Susan Marks as President of Competitive Wisconsin. Marks has been a board member of CWI for 12 years and previously served as Chair of the Economic Development and Tax Committee and a member of the Executive Committee.
“Sue has been instrumental in growing Competitive Wisconsin and focusing our efforts on an agenda that benefits all sectors of the economy,” said Tom O’Neill, President of CWI from 2007-2008 and Senior Vice President, Marshall & Ilsley Corporation. “Sue is a tireless advocate for our state. She has highlighted education and entrepreneurship as a platform for growing our economy, and focused on empowering the talented workforce driving our state’s competitive edge. Sue’s enthusiasm for making Wisconsin a more competitive place to start and grow a business will benefit members and our state tremendously.”
Marks is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pinstripe®, a privately-held HR firm and one of the nation’s top recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) providers. She previously established the largest independent staffing company in Wisconsin along with an enterprise-wide recruitment process outsourcing firm. Both companies were sold to a Fortune 500 company in 2000.
Involved in the entrepreneurial economy and committed to economic development, Sue is also active on the boards of BizStarts Milwaukee; the Investment Committee of Generation Growth Capital; and First Business Bank – Milwaukee. She has been named an HR Outsourcing Superstar three years consecutively, and was recognized as Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year in the service business category. She is the winner of the Marquette University College of Business Administration’s Alumni Award for Entrepreneurship and a three-time winner of both the Working Woman 500 designation and the Future 50 of Wisconsin.
“Competitive Wisconsin was created 27 years ago in response to such challenging times as we are confronting today. Not since this organization’s inception, has it been more important that our business, labor, education and agriculture leaders work together to identify and implement solutions that will create great jobs and grow our state’s economy. Marks continued “It is incumbent upon us all to do our part to help guide CWI as an organization and find common ground solutions and opportunities. I look forward to working with our fellow Wisconsinite’s to prove our talent, ingenuity and determination.”
Competitive Wisconsin, Inc. was created in 1981 as a non-partisan consortium of agriculture, business, education and labor leaders that focuses exclusively on developing and advocating statewide policies designed to retain and grow existing businesses and create new businesses.