Gene has been the Executive Director of the Baraboo Area Chamber of Commerce for over thirteen years. His career has also included service as the director of community relations/marketing at a college, communications specialist with a state department, strategic planning facilitator, local news anchor, and account representative for a number of periodicals. Gene’s education includes a M.A. in anthropology and B.B.A. in business administration/marketing, both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a graduate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for Organizational Management program, and serves on the Board of Regents of the U.S. Chamber’s Southeast Institute site. Gene also serves as President-Elect of the Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce Executives, on the boards of the Sauk County Institute of Leadership and the Baraboo Community Scholarship Corporation, and was a member of the Badger Army Ammunition Plant Re-use Committee. He has had a variety of articles published in the national trade publication Chamber of Commerce Pacesetter, and in local newspapers such as the Baraboo News Republic. After residing in Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, and elsewhere in Wisconsin, Gene now lives in the Town of Greenfield just outside of Baraboo with his wife, two sons (daughter away at college), and two dogs.