Dan Olszewski, whose career spans teaching, mentoring and running a young company, will accept the “Excellence in Entrepreneurial Education” award over lunch on Nov. 13 at the Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium. The conference will be held in-person at the Monona Terrace Convention Center.
Previous winners of the “Triple E” award are Tim Keane, an investor and entrepreneur who was one of the first college-level educators in Wisconsin to design courses around entrepreneurial studies; Thomas “Rock” Mackie, a scientist, entrepreneur and educator who has helped build an entrepreneurial culture on the UW-Madison campus; Jan Eddy, tech company founder and a tireless mentor of startups through her work on and off campus; Allen Dines, who has mentored entrepreneurs and helped instill a startup spirit in UW-Madison students and faculty; Terry Sivesind, a co-founder of MERLIN Mentors; Anne Smith, who launched the UW-Madison Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic; Lorrie Keating Heinemann, whose career has spanned a quarter-century of support for the startup and investing sectors in Wisconsin; Joe Boucher, who has worked with hundreds of young companies, taught at the UW-Madison and pioneered Wisconsin’s limited liability company; and co-founders of gener8tor Joe Kirgues and Troy Vosseller; and Matt and Susie Younkle, who have launched companies and mentored scores of startups separately and together as husband and wife.
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