By Gene Arenson, HYPERAMS

On the evening of January 14, more than 140 members and guests gathered at The Grain Exchange in downtown Milwaukee for some post-holiday networking and dinner. In the 1860s, the Grain Exchange invented and utilized the first trading pit in the entire world, an octagonal pit that was supplanted later in the Mackie building and duplicated in exchanges around the world. We were treated to sounds from the Mark Davis Trio before dinner. The TMA Milwaukee Committee (Gene Arenson, Bill Farrar, and incoming committee member John Wirth from Mallery & Zimmerman) introduced a record number of Milwaukee sponsors for 2016, without whom events like this could not happen. We are very grateful for our sponsor support in Milwaukee and photos of the event can be seen on the TMA Facebook page. The committee is looking forward to another great year.

Thank you to our 2016 Milwaukee Sponsors:

Alliance Management

Associated Bank

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

BMO Harris Bank

Brass Tacks Group, LLC

Concord Financial Advisors

Crestmark Bank

Crowe Horwath LLP

CSI Consultants, LLC

First Business Capital Corp.

First Midwest Bank

Fort Dearborn Partners

Franklin Capital Holdings LLC

Godfrey & Kohn

Goldstein & McClintock LLLP

Gordon Brothers-AccuVal

Grady Hayes & Neary LLC

Harney Management Partners, LLC

Hilco Global

HYPERAMS, LLC

Liquidity Services Inc.

Mallery & Zimmerman

Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

Murphy Desmond

North Mill Capital

O'Neil Cannon Hollman DeJong & Laing

Quarles & Brady LLP

Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c.

Silverman Consulting

Sweet DeMarb LLC

U.S. Bank

von Briesen & Roper, S.C.

Wadsworth Whitestar Consultants

Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C.