Cate Hollowitsch is the Director of Marketing for Nesnah Ventures, a La Crosse area private equity firm. She is an energetic, results-driven marketing professional with more than 24 years of experience and a proven track record in all areas of business. Fueled by her passion for marketing, she focuses on helping their portfolio of companies with branding, commercialization, and marketing best practices. As an executive, she also serves as a strategic advisor across the portfolio.

Cate excels at bringing any vision to life and uses her ingenuity to identify and solve any problem.  She holds a BSBA and an MBA but has learned more about building brands by simply getting out in the world and doing it.

Elizabeth Ressie is Director, Human Resources for Dairyland Power Cooperative where she leads Dairyland’s Human Resources Team. Ressie joined Dairyland as Senior Human Resources Business Consultant in January 2020.

Prior to joining Dairyland, Ressie was the Director, Human Resources for BIC Graphic. She joined BIC Graphic in 2014 and was a strategic Human Resources leader within the organization focused on leading a multi-site HR team while designing, planning and implementing HR solutions by establishing HR processes, programs, and policies, including benefits, compensation, employee relations, HR metrics/data analysis, leadership development, performance management, rewards and recognition, staffing forecast/labor management and succession planning. Before joining BIC Graphic, Ressie was an HR Generalist for Peerless Chain Company and McNeilus Companies, Inc.

Ressie is a graduate of Winona State University with a dual degree in Human Resources and Business Administration. She also earned her Master of Human Resources Management from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. She is certified as a Senior Certified Professional from the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM-SCP) and a Professional in Human Resources (PHR) from the HR Certification Institute.