Kathleen Gallagher, Pulitzer Prize-winning business reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, has been named executive director of the Milwaukee Institute, a nonprofit computational science and technology center that is redirecting resources to cloud computing.
Rich Kirchen of the Milwaukee Business Journal reports, “The Milwaukee Institute was founded with funds from Milwaukee private-equity firm Mason Wells, Metavante (now FIS), Rockwell Automation and Johnson Controls.
“Gallagher joins the Milwaukee Institute after 23 years with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, where she most recently covered technology, entrepreneurship and investments. She was part of the team that won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for ‘One in a Billion: A Boy’s Life, A Medical Mystery.’
“Gallagher will continue to curate the OnRamp page at www.jsonline.com that provides conversations and connections among Wisconsin entrepreneurs. Gallagher is also executive-in-residence for investment communications for the investment management certificate program in the Lubar School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
“Gallagher has a graduate degree in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago and an undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.”
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