Kathleen Gallagher
Midwest Moxie HostKathleen Gallagher is the host of Midwest Moxie and previously the host of How Did You Do That?.
She's a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who is Executive Director of 5 Lakes Institute, a non-profit focused on building and connecting the Great Lakes Region’s high-tech entrepreneurial economy and culture. She is also a columnist at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Previously, during more than two decades as a reporter at the Journal Sentinel, Kathleen covered banking, technology and entrepreneurship and wrote a weekly Investment Trends column. In 2011, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for co-authoring a series of articles about how doctors and scientists in Milwaukee for the first time in history sequenced all the genes of a patient for diagnosis. Kathleen and co-author Mark Johnson wrote a book based on that series called One in a Billion: The Story of Nic Volker and the Dawn of Genomic Medicine.
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Jacob Babcock and his team are helping to free us from cords and make wireless charging more prevalent. -
Monika Roots is a child psychiatrist who has co-founded two telehealth startups. -
Cory Scott stumbled into a pitch contest and emerged with first place, a pre-paying customer and the beginnings of LiveBy. -
Chris Goode leaned on 30 years of work experience in weather to start his company, Climavision, which raised $100 million out of the gate to improve weather forecast speed and accuracy. -
Amy Brown quit her high-level executive job to start her own venture that helps companies to improve customer relationships and profitability. -
After focusing on scalability and profitability Ben Schmidt's Pittsburg-based Roadbotics, which provides image analysis of road infrastructure, was acquired by Michelin in 2022. -
After founding four companies, including Ann Arbor-based Accuri Cytometers, which was acquired in 2010 for $205 million, Jen Baird is now she's helping other young startups grow. -
Dr. Garry Cooper started with research lab materials but has grown Chicago-based Rheaply's digital resource exchange platform to find next uses for industrial and IT equipment, building materials, furniture and more. -
Sankalp Arora figured out while in graduate school at Carnegie Mellon how to make robots curious. -
Danny Ellis and Kurt Heikkinen know first-hand how difficult, and ultimately rewarding, a startup can be.
