C-Level Awards 2026: Pat Connaughton, CEO & Co-Founder, Three Leaf Partners

Andy Hess is a principal and investment brokerage leader at Founders 3 Real Estate Services in Milwaukee, where he focuses on investment property sales.

William J. Levy has led BMOC, Inc. as CEO and president since the Madison, Wisconsin-based property management firm was founded in 1986.

Ugo Nwagbaraocha, president of Diamond Discs International and Diamond Discs International Construction Management, has built a Milwaukee-based company into a regional powerhouse supplying construction tools, safety equipment and power tools to major utility and construction entities nationwide.

Tracy Johnson has led the Commercial Association of REALTORS® Wisconsin (CARW) as President & CEO since 2014, guiding the statewide membership organization through more than a decade of growth and industry engagement.

Tony Klein has served as Chief Financial Officer of Hunzinger Construction Company for 29 years, providing steady financial leadership to the Milwaukee-area general contracting firm since 1997.

Tom Irgens serves as executive vice president of Irgens Partners, the Wauwatosa-based commercial real estate development firm, where he oversees the asset management team and directs activities to drive market value across the company’s diverse portfolio of commercial, healthcare, mixed-use, retail and industrial holdings nationwide.

Stu Wangard is executive chairman of Wangard Partners, a commercial real estate firm recognized as a leader in the development of large and complex mixed-use projects across North America.

When longtime Fiduciary Real Estate Development president and CEO Brett Miller announced he would step down and retire as CEO at the end of 2027, he tapped Steve Bersell as his successor.

S.R. Mills serves as chief executive officer and principal of Bear Real Estate Group, headquartered in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Shannon Metoxen serves as vice president at JP Cullen, a fifth-generation family-owned construction firm founded in 1892 and headquartered in Janesville, Wis.

Scott Yauck is president and CEO of Cobalt Partners LLC, a Milwaukee-based real estate development firm.

Pat Kressin has spent three decades building something rare in the engineering world — a career defined as much by the leaders he develops as the projects he delivers.