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Ron Giordan is a “content producer/creator”.  At 15-years-old, he started working at a radio station in Phoenix, AZ writing news copy. After graduating from Marquette University, he spent 20 years producing newscasts at 8 different TV stations across the country ending his TV career in Madison at WKOW-TV as the Assistant News Director. Seeing the trend of digital content invading traditional mass media, Ron transitioned to a Madison digital agency where he led the content team for 5 years.

Now, Ron runs his own content creation company, SynRG Marketing, while caring for his two children. He and his wife, Charlotte Deleste, started Gio’s Garden in 2009 raising $250,000 solely using social media marketing and events. The nonprofit respite care home, open since 2012, provides therapy and help to families of special needs children ages birth to 6. The respite home is named after their son, Giovanni.

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March 2-6, 2020

Join us for a series of workshops on Retaining Rural Business through Employee Ownership in Minnesota and Wisconsin to learn how employee ownership can be an effective strategy for keeping businesses, jobs, and wealth in rural communities. UW Center for Cooperatives with partners from University of Minnesota Extension and Cooperative Development Services will be traveling across the two states to deliver free workshops on converting rural businesses to worker-owned cooperatives.

Who should attend:

• Economic and business development professionals
• Owners and managers of businesses
• Prospective employee-owners
• Business support professionals

Locations and Dates:

Duluth, MN 3/2/2020 9 a.m.
Hayward, WI 3/2/2020 1 p.m.
Webster, WI 3/2/2020 4:30 p.m.
Mora, MN 3/3/2020 9 a.m.
Fridley, MN 3/3/2020 3 p.m.
Rushford, MN 3/4/2020 10 a.m.
Black River Falls, WI 3/5/2020 10 a.m.
Viroqua, WI 3/5/2020 3 p.m.
Oronoco, MN 3/6/2020 9:30 a.m.

Workshop presenters:
Courtney Berner, University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives
Michael Darger, University of Minnesota Extension Center for Community Vitality
Kevin Edberg, Cooperative Development Services (St. Paul, MN)
Esther West, University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives

These 90 minute workshops are no-cost and open to all. A special invitation is
extended to economic and community development officials, business support
professionals, business owners, business employees, and anyone else interested
in employee cooperatives.

*Registration is required. All workshops are subject to change or cancellation at
any time. Please see https://z.umn.edu/SellingtoWorkers for the latest
information and to register for an event.

Greg Piefer, founder and chief executive officer of SHINE Medical Technologies, will discuss SHINE’s journey from a campus laboratory to a potential world leader in the production of medical isotopes at the Tuesday, Feb. 25 Tech Council Innovation Network luncheon meeting in Madison.

SHINE is on track to produce a more reliable supply of Molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), the most commonly used isotope in nuclear medicine. Mo-99 is the parent isotope of technetium-99m (99mTc), a light-emitting element used tens of thousands a time daily for heart stress tests, cancer staging and other medical purposes.

The company’s Janesville facility, under construction since May 2019, will begin producing Mo-99 on a commercial scale in 2022. It will help alleviate global shortages of Mo-99 and other isotopes through a federally regulated process that does not require a nuclear reactor, uses less electricity, generates less waste and is compatible with the nation’s existing supply chain

The luncheon will be held at The Coliseum Bar & Banquet on Madison’s E. Olin Ave. Registration and networking begin at 11:30 a.m., lunch at noon and the presentation at 12:30 p.m. The cost is $10 for students and returning veterans, $25 for individual members, $35 for non-members and included for Tech Council corporate members. Click here to register.

“SHINE raised $125 million in 2019 alone, set a world record for a nuclear fusion reaction in a steady-state system, and advanced its business relationships at home and abroad,” said Tom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology Council. “We look forward to hearing what 2020 holds for the company and the future of health care.”