Our Board

Meet the Board

Board Officers

Hoyt Hsiao

Vice Chair and Treasurer President & CEO
Shaw-Lundquist Associates, Inc.

Chair of the Board

Steve Singer

CEO
Rockler Companies, Inc.

Vice Chair

 

John Stout

Secretary Co-Chair, Corporate Governance, Corporate Sustainability & CSR, & Artificial Intelligence Groups
Fredrikson & Byron

Secretary

Jeffrey Payne

Commercial Banking Lead
Huntington Bank

Treasurer


Board Members

Kevin Besikof

Partner
Eisner Advisory Group

Shawn Calabrase

Director, Procurement
Best Buy

Andrea Burns

General Manager
Independent Packing Services, Inc.

 

Jashan Eison

President & CEO
H&B Elevators

Laura Helmueller

Senior Vice President, Market Manager
Bremer Bank

Bukata Hayes

Vice President, Racial and Health Equity
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota

 

Hoyt Hsiao

President & CEO
Shaw-Lundquist Associates, Inc.

Matthew Lyons

2VP Corporate Procurement
The Travelers Company, Inc.

Joel Lebewitz

Partner & Executive Committee Member
Lurie, LLP

 

Natalie McGrady

Global Supplier Diversity Leader
Cargill

Stefan Michno

Director of Development
Kraus Anderson

Al Mendoza

Principal and Partner
Ernst and Young

 

Darren Moquist

CFO, Employer and Individual
United Healthcare

Suzanne Murphy

Senior Manager Community Relations
Xcel Energy

Mary Muldowney

Global Sourcing Leader
General Mills

 

Andrea Novak

Community Affairs Supervisor
Minnesota Pollution Control

Jeffrey Payne

Group Manager
Huntington Bank

Lalin Perera (Al)

Wells Fargo
Senior Vice President | Commercial Banking Leader - Middle Market

 

Jacob Rider

Vice President, Services
Deluxe

David Rudolph

Region Manager, Minnesota
Chase

Steven Singer

CEO
Rockler Companies, Inc.

 

John Stout

Vice President & Shareholder
Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

John “JT” Taylor

Senior Director, Supplier Diversity
Medtronic

D’Angelos Svenkeson

CEO
NEOO Partners

 

Matt Thompson

Senior Vice President
U.S. Bank

Joseph Wallace

President
Independent Packing Services

 

Our Team

Together, we can grow MEDA to serve as a national best-in-class organization and go-to resource that is fiercely accountable to our mission of Helping BIPOC Entrepreneurs

Our History

Together, we can grow MEDA to serve as a national best-in-class organization and go-to resource that is fiercely accountable to our mission of Helping BIPOC Entrepreneurs