School of Business > LEAP > Personnel

The LEAP Program consists of following:

• Marian Walluks, Coordinator for LEAP
• Professor Ray Aldag, Project Director for LEAP
• Larry Cox, Project Advisor
• Helen Capellaro, LEAP Liaison
• Neha Kapoor, LEAP Project Assistant

LEAP Advisory Board consists of the following individuals:

• Marian Walluks, President - Personnel Advisors, Inc. & Co-Chair of WIBC
• Kathleen Ley, Co-owner - Norback, Ley & Associates LLC & Co-Chair of WBIC
• Denise Kornetzke, Director - Business Procurement Assistance Center
• Dana Hoffmann, Director, Bureau of Business Finance

Project Director
RAY ALDAG, a Professor in the Department of Management and Human Resources at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, is also the Glen A. Skillrud Family Chair in Business and co-director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship.  His areas of expertise are Decision-making and Leadership.

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Project Advisor
LARRY COX, Faculty Associate in the Department of Management and Human Resources at the university of Wisconsin –Madison School of Business, is also the director of Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship. His personal research interests include the dynamics of high-growth firms, the impact of entrepreneurship education, and the cognitive processes of entrepreneurs.

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Liaison/Marketing/PR
HELEN J. CAPELLARO, public relations director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, also serves as liaison with the Women in Business Council. On the LEAP project, she serves as liaison between the various parties. She has worked in the field of public relations/ communications/marketing for over 30 years. For 12 years, she was an entrepreneur and owned a group of four weekly newspapers in New Glarus, Wis. She also worked in San Francisco, California doing marketing for a financial services firm. Early in her career, she was public relations specialist at Northwestern Mutual Life in Milwaukee. She has co-authored a juvenile book and served on the advisory boards of several business publications. She has been a member of the Women in Business Council since it started in 1993.

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Consultant/LEAP Coordinator
MARIAN C. WALLUKS, 
is President of Personnel Advisors, Inc., a firm, which provides business development consultation to small and medium-sized businesses and business start-ups, and MCW Productions LLC, an event planning and management services company through which she produces the annual Business Women’s Expo event. Her current clients include the Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation (serving as the WWBIC Madison Office and Outstate Representative) and O’Gara Publishing Company producers of Wisconsin Woman magazine, 50+ Lifestyles, Business Watch and the Wisconsin Woman Business & Resource Directory).
Prior to becoming self-employed full-time, she had a 30-year career in public personnel management including professional and managerial experience with both the State of Wisconsin and the City of Madison.
Her work with the Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation involves outreach as well as developing and providing training and counseling for entrepreneurs. Ms. Walluks is active in a number of local professional women's groups, including The Business Forum and Wisconsin Women Entrepreneurs (now the NAWBO Chapter of Greater Madison) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Women in Business Council. She has a BBA and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has participated in a broad range of other training and professional development courses and conferences during her career and her time as a small business owner.

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Project Assistant
NEHA KAPOOR is the current LEAP assistant. She is a master's student in Civil Environmental Engineering, majoring in Environmental Engineering and will be graduating in December 2004. A native of India, she has strong interest in woman's empowerment and has an extensive background in fields including childhood  care, environmental protection, engineering and training. She is interested in pursuing a career in Human resources. In addition to serving as the LEAP assistant, she is presently working in office of Human resources at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and as a Research Assistant in the Biological System Engineering. She intends to stay in US and work in consulting.

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