Two Inducted into Weinert Center’s Entrepreneur Hall of Fame

Jim Weinert, a prominent entrepreneur and philanthropist, and Bob Pricer, a longtime teacher of entrepreneurship, were honored at the eighth annual celebration of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship in May. Both were inducted into the school's Entrepreneur Hall of Fame.

Pricer retired in 2002 after a successful career teaching entrepreneurship. Popular with students and alumni, he was selected by BusinessWeek in 1996 as one of the nation's top entrepreneurship professors and received numerous honors for his teaching and public service.

Jim Weinert, MBA ‘69, became a successful entrepreneur in the Minneapolis area. He encouraged the idea of teaching entrepreneurship at UW-Madison before it became a national phenomenon. He gave the School of Business support to enable students in the WAVE (Weinert Applied Ventures in Entrepreneurship) program to invest in promising business ventures and provided funds to endow the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship. Weinert remains active in the program by mentoring student entrepreneurs and serving on the board of several businesses run by former Weinert students. He is also chairman of Tri Pro in Minneapolis.

Previously inducted into the UW-Madison Entrepreneur Hall of Fame were Aaron Kennedy, chairman, founder, and CEO of Noodles & Company; and Carol Bartz, CEO of Autodesk.