# Brew City Business Network

> Brew City Business Network puts a bench of trained professionals, from finance, law, and banking to engineering, IT, and AI, to work as one team for Wisconsin businesses.

Brew City Business Network (brewcitybusinessnetwork.com) is a Milwaukee-based network focused on businesses across Wisconsin. It works like an outside bench: senior professionals in 9 functions (seats) who work as one team around a business. It also hosts mixers and workshops. It is not limited to one industry.

## Pages

- [Home](https://brewcitybusinessnetwork.com/): Overview of the network, how it helps, and common questions.
- [How we help](https://brewcitybusinessnetwork.com/how-we-help/): Engagement models, process, the seats, and a playbook of common situations.
- [Events and workshops](https://brewcitybusinessnetwork.com/events/): Mixers and member-led workshops.
- [People](https://brewcitybusinessnetwork.com/people/): Bios of the members who fill each seat.
- [Wisconsin](https://brewcitybusinessnetwork.com/wisconsin/): Why the network invests in Wisconsin businesses.
- [Contact](https://brewcitybusinessnetwork.com/contact/): How to reach the network.

## Seats

- Fractional CFO & finance: Cash flow, forecasting, reporting, and senior finance leadership without a full-time hire.
- Accounting, HR & back office: Outsourced accounting, HR support, and the operating processes a growing company runs on.
- Tax planning & advisory: Tax strategy built into growth, investment, and transition decisions before they are made.
- Corporate & trade law: Business transactions, corporate structure, tariffs, import compliance, and export controls.
- Commercial banking: Lending relationships, credit readiness, and financing the next step of growth.
- M&A & exit planning: Buying a business, selling one, and planning an owner’s exit well ahead of time.
- Engineering & system integration: Contract engineering, custom equipment, and system integration for production and inspection.
- IT & cybersecurity: Managed IT, security, and technology leadership for small and mid-sized companies.
- AI strategy & governance: Where AI helps, where it adds risk, and the ground rules for adopting it responsibly.

## Ways to engage

- Team session: Bring one problem. Every seat it touches looks at it together, and you leave with a coordinated plan and a clear owner for each next step.
- Project team: For a defined initiative such as an acquisition, an expansion, a financing, or a systems overhaul, we seat the specialists it needs and keep them working as one team from kickoff to close.
- Fractional coverage: Need a function handled on an ongoing basis? Fill the seat through a member firm, whether that is finance, accounting and HR, or IT, while the rest of the bench stays close at hand.

## Advisory group

- John Kasian, Senior Vice President, Strategic Operations (Sayva Solutions): Fractional finance, accounting, and HR services
- Chris Van Den Elzen, Advisory group member, Apotheosis (Apotheosis): Fractional CFO services
- Ngosong Fonkem, Partner, Milwaukee office (Amundsen Davis LLC): International trade and corporate law
- John Huber, Vice President, Commercial Banking Officer (Waukesha State Bank): Commercial banking and business lending
- Mathew J. Breselow, Co-Founder and M&A Advisor (Blue Sky Business Acquisitions): Buying, selling, and exit planning for businesses
- Robert Orozco, Executive in Residence, UW–Whitewater; independent AI advisor (University of Wisconsin–Whitewater): AI strategy and governance
- Rose Mandap, Advisory group member, Hexis Consulting (Hexis Consulting): Managed IT, cybersecurity, and technology planning
- Russell Rapant, President and Chief Engineer (Arrow Engineered Systems Ltd.): Contract engineering, design, and system integration
- Sean Bailey, Shareholder; North Shore Market Leader and Tax Planning Service Line Leader (Vesta): Tax planning, accounting, and advisory

## Notes

- Members work through their own firms. Engagements are contracted directly with the member firm; the network assembles and coordinates the team.
- Event dates are shared directly with people who contact the network.