Wisconsin Bank & Trust’s Jasper Vaccaro Serving as Board Chair of YMCA of Dane County and as Vice President of the Board of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Madison

Wisconsin Bank & Trust’s Jasper Vaccaro, Senior Vice President and Private Client Services Market Leader, is currently serving on the boards of two Madison-area nonprofit organizations. Vaccaro is Chair of the Executive Committee and Chief Volunteer Officer for YMCA of Dane County. He is also serving as Vice President on Ronald McDonald House Charities of Madison’s board of directors.

Vaccaro has been actively involved since 2010 with YMCA of Dane County, which works to provide programs that help build a healthy spirit, mind and body for everyone. Vaccaro began his term as Board Chair in May 2016.

With Ronald McDonald House Charities of Madison, Vaccaro is also a longtime contributor, including as a member of the Investment Committee. He joined the organization’s board of directors in 2013 and has served as Vice President for the past year. Through its housing, care mobile and Family Room programs, the organization seeks to provide a home-away-from-home for families when a child they love receives treatment in the Madison area.

At Wisconsin Bank & Trust, Vaccaro’s role includes leadership of the bank’s Wealth Advisory Services, Investment Services, Private Banking and Retirement Plan Services. He is based from the bank’s headquarters location at 119 Junction Road in Madison.

About Wisconsin Bank & Trust

Wisconsin Bank & Trust (WBT), a subsidiary of Heartland Financial USA, Inc., (NASDAQ: HTLF), is a business-focused community bank with assets of more than $1 billion. With eighteen banking centers and one mortgage loan origination office, Wisconsin Bank & Trust serves customers in the Madison, Milwaukee, Green Bay, Sheboygan, Monroe and southwest areas of Wisconsin. WBT offers a wide range of personal and business banking, private client and mortgage lending services. For more information, visit www.wisconsinbankandtrust.com or call 608.203.1214. Wisconsin Bank & Trust is a member of the FDIC and an Equal Housing Lender.

About Heartland Financial USA, Inc.

Heartland is a diversified financial services company with assets exceeding $9.5 billion. The Company provides banking, mortgage, private client, investment, treasury management, card services, insurance, and consumer finance services to individuals and businesses. Heartland currently has 121 banking locations serving 88 communities in Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Arizona, Montana, Colorado, Minnesota, Kansas, Missouri, Texas and California.  Additional information about Heartland is available at www.htlf.com.

###

AM Solutions Appoints New Digital Prepress Technician

Edgerton, WI – AM Solutions is pleased to announce, JaNae Pernsteiner has joined the firm to assist in developing their Data Services offerings. JaNae comes with a wealth of experience within the industry. Over the past twelve years she has worked with various print media firms in Prepress and Graphic Design.

JaNae joins AM Solutions as a Digital Prepress Technician to help further AM Solutions recent success providing integrated marketing services to many of the top companies in the United States. JaNae comments“I am excited to start this new challenge with AM Solutions. With over twelve years of experience as a Prepress Specialist coupled with a degree in Graphic Design I feel that I can utilize my skill set to bring increased value to the organization”.

Eric Stein, Vice President of Operations, said “JaNae’s acquired experience and knowledge of the industry will quickly make her a key addition to the AM Solutions team. We view her appointment as a sign of our commitment to being a leading service provider in our industry. The increasing demand for data services from our customers led us to look for an addition to the team who will fit in with our innovative and exceptional service offerings. I am confident that JaNae will play a key role in providing high quality solutions for our clients.”

About AM Solutions:

AM Solutions (amsolutionswi.com), is a customer-driven marketing services provider specializing in direct mail marketing, data, print, fulfillment and email communication. AM Solutions has proudly been providing its customers, large and small, with solutions-based, results-driven, integrated communications for their marketing needs since 1993.

Midwest Prototyping becomes first independent additive manufacturer to achieve ISO 9001:2015 Certification

Midwest Prototyping Achieves ISO 9001 Certification | July 11, 2017

BLUE MOUNDS, WI – Midwest Prototyping, LLC, announced today its operations have been certified compliant with the ISO 9001:2015 standard, an internationally recognized achievement for operational excellence. One of the nation’s largest additive manufacturers, it’s the first independent service bureau to achieve ISO 9001:2015 certification.

“For us, obtaining ISO certification is a natural next step,” said Steve Grundahl, President and founder of Midwest Prototyping. “As our operations and the additive manufacturing industry have continued to grow, we’ve seen an increasing number of production and end-use orders for printed parts. This [ISO 9001 certification] is a critical step to create a manufacturing facility for 3D printed, end-use products. If we are going to compete with traditional manufacturing processes, we need to meet them at their level.”

Midwest Prototyping has spent close to 18 months working to ensure its quality management system meets the extensive criteria associated with the standard, which centers on enhancing customer satisfaction and continuous improvement. National Quality Associates, Inc., an independent accredited registrar, verified Midwest Prototyping’s compliance to the standard.

“At its core, ISO 9001 is a business improvement standard,” explained Nate Schumacher, Project Leader and ISO 9001 implementation coordinator. “Realistically, what we’ve done is taken our existing QMS and reshaped it to let us take a closer look at our operations at every level, allowing us to improve them as we continue to grow.”

Centered in Geneva, Switzerland, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an independent, non-governmental international organization which develops and publishes International Standards in collaboration with 163 national standards bodies. Its documentation provides guidelines that can be used consistently to ensure that materials, products, processes and services are fit for their purpose.

Founded in 2001, Midwest Prototyping is one of the nation’s largest independent additive manufacturing service bureaus. Named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing privately held companies for the last 5 consecutive years, the Blue Mounds-based organization was recently a 2016 Wisconsin Manufacturer of the Year award winner. Offering multiple 3D printing technologies, urethane casting, and extensive finishing services, Midwest Prototyping has consistently provided quality products and unrivaled customer support, enabling clients of all industries to make better parts, faster.

For more information, visit www.midwestproto.com.

Madison HealthTech Company Creates Roadmap for Success

Datica, the industry cloud platform for digital health applications, today announced its Digital Health Success Framework (DHSF). Digital health developers can use the detailed guide to take products from napkin scribble to market without any snags.

Launched in 2013, Datica has spent the past four years working with digital health companies that range from single-founder startups to Fortune 100 pharma companies and hospital providers. Patterns from thousands of conversations have emerged around topics like technology, cloud infrastructure, data exchange and compliance.

“Unlike other industries where a pathway to success is straightforward, the healthcare industry has unique considerations not found elsewhere,” said Mark Olschesky, Datica’s chief data officer. “The DHSF takes those specific complexities, details the timelines and benchmarks for each, then simplifies the success process in an intelligent way that developers can clearly comprehend.”

According to research and data analytics firm CB Insights, increases in digital health funding continued for the seventh straight year in 2016 with venture deals reaching $6.5B. Those financial deals have financially supported companies that want to “remedy the pain points of healthcare.” Investors distributed the majority of those funds to early-stage, seed and Series A companies. Yet, Datica has seen many of those well-intentioned companies struggle to reach market adoption. Research by Accenture in 2015 showed that more than 50 percent of all digital health startups are likely to fail within two years following their launch.

Datica’s mission is to reduce that 50 percent rate. The Digital Health Success Framework plays the role of helping teams understand the major considerations which contribute to business risks and product burdens. “We’ve seen hundreds of digital health companies pass by in our position as a top startup incubator. Most of them struggle to understand what challenges stand between them and market adoption,” explained Joe Kirgues, co-founder of Gener8tor, a nationally ranked accelerator. “Datica’s Digital Health Success Framework can help organizations understand the unique considerations required for new products, which will help the healthcare ecosystem only get better at delivering stronger patient outcomes through new innovation.”

For more information on the Digital Health Success Framework, visit http://www.datica.com/dhsf. The free resource charts dozens of important considerations for digital health teams along a four-year timeline, ranging from HIPAA compliance to pilot strategies.

About Datica
Datica is the platform for digital health success. We solve the problem of HIPAA compliance in the cloud, and enable secure data exchange between digital health and EHRs. Customers and partners across healthcare trust Datica to ensure the barriers for digital health are removed so innovation can happen faster. For more information please visit http://www.datica.com.

Per Mar Security Services Hires First Student through “Grow Our Own Program”

Contact:

Suzette Sawvell, Per Mar Security Services

563-549-6610

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

July 10, 2017

 Per Mar Security Services Hires First Student through “Grow Our Own Program”

DAVENPORT, Iowa – Per Mar Security Services, a leading provider of total security solutions for residential and commercial clients based in Davenport, IA, announced it has hired its first student, Luis Miranda, through its “Grow Our Own Program”.

Per Mar’s “Grow Our Own Program” is a program where Per Mar employees reach out to local high school students, visit their classrooms, and tell them about Per Mar and employment opportunities. The program was started by Carri Waack, HR Coordinator for Per Mar. Waack saw an opportunity to reach out to high school students and inform them of what Per Mar has to offer as far as careers beyond high school.

Waack met Miranda through the “Grow Our Own Program” at Moline High School in Moline, IL. After learning more about Per Mar and job opportunities, Miranda told Waack that he was interested in becoming a Security Officer at Per Mar after graduation. Miranda had thorough background check and interviews, was hired, and is now in Security Officer training.

Waack said, “I think this is a great program. Not only does it educate the students on what Per Mar does and has to offer, it may also help a student decide on a field they would like to go into after college. I am very glad to have met Luis as he is an outstanding young man, and I am excited for his future with Per Mar!”

Miranda is thrilled to be a part of the Per Mar team, saying, “Working for Per Mar has been a great experience! I am really enjoying it, and I look forward to having a long career at this company.”

Since the launch of this program, Per Mar has worked with local high schools around the Quad City, Des Moines, and South Bend areas. Per Mar’s goal is to expand the program and offer the program to other communities in which the company serves.

If you are interested in having Per Mar visit your high school through the “Grow Our Own Program”, please reach out to Carri Waack at cwaack@permarsecurity.com.

About Per Mar Security Services

Established in 1953, Per Mar Security Services is the largest, family-owned, full-service security company in the Midwest with more than 2,400 team members, operating in 23 branch locations and 18 satellite locations. The company provides full-service security solutions for homes and businesses including security officer services, smart home automation, burglar and fire alarms, access control, security cameras, alarm monitoring, investigative services and background checks. For more information about Per Mar Security Services, please visit permarsecurity.com.