WWBIC names new board officers

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The Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corp. has elected a slate of new board officers for 2019.

They are:

• Karin Gale (Schenck SC) will now serve as WWBIC’s chairperson, taking the role from Past Chair Michael McDonagh (Mallery & Zimmerman).
• Johnny Moutry Jr. (New Covenant Housing Corp. Inc.) will serve as vice chair/secretary.
• Kathryn Andrea (Andrea & Orendorff) will remain WWBIC’s treasurer and chair of WWBIC’s Audit and Finance Committee.

Gale was a member of WWBIC’s Finance & Audit Committee before joining the board. She is a shareholder at Schenck, an accounting and business consulting firm. Her board and committee service includes the Wisconsin Institute of CPAs (past president), the Independent Business Association of Wisconsin (past president), the Association for Corporate Growth Wisconsin (past president), and the City of West Allis Community Development Authority.

Moutry is the executive director of New Covenant Housing Corp., a faith‐based community and housing developer for low‐ to moderate‐income individuals and families in Milwaukee. A retired executive of Aldrich Chemical, Moutry has received the Urban Economic Development of Milwaukee Leadership Award and the Wilbur Halyard Award for Community Service.

Andrea has been a partner at Andrea & Orendorff LLP in Kenosha since 1989. She served on WWBIC’s Audit and Finance Committee before joining the board. She specializes in providing auditing and management advisory services to nonprofit and governmental clients and serves as treasurer on the boards of the Kemper Center and the Kenosha Library Foundation.