Lubar 25 Class of 2022

The Lubar 25 Class of 2022 was celebrated this spring, recognizing stand-out undergraduate students in the Lubar School of Business for their accomplishments in academics, entrepreneurship, leadership, or campus/community service. Each of the students was presented with a certificate and received an $800 scholarship from the Friends and Family of Gary Elfe.

Mathew Herman says entrepreneurship runs in his blood. He sold his first vehicle before he even had a driver’s license and has since sold more than 33 other vehicles. He also invests in property with an eye to selling vacant parcels for development. Prior to entering UWM, Matthew created, and has since sold, Herman Excavating. While attending UWM, he also runs Timberland Environmental Management, the only carbon-neutral forestry mulching company in the Midwest and provides services for residential property owners, commercial groups, and state and municipal governments. Currently, he is considering ways to develop land in a sustainable and environmentally friendly way. “I like the idea of improving a parcel of land so it can be utilized by many generations to come while focusing on sustainability and incorporating aesthetically appealing characteristics into it.” he says. A leader in addition to being an entrepreneur, Mathew is president of UWM’s chapter of the Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization.

A senior majoring in accounting, Lauren Spaulding has been a member of UWM’s volleyball team since coming in as a “walk on” in her freshman year, balancing practice, games, academics, and a part-time job. In 2020, she was awarded the “Highest Female Student-Athlete GPA” award and was also a recipient of the Leer/Tellier Accounting Scholarship, which is awarded to top accounting students. Lauren credits her collegiate volleyball career for her growth as a leader. “I embraced my role as being the best leader I could be, regardless of the playing time I saw on the court. I realized the importance of effective teamwork, communication, and problem-solving,” she says. Lauren has been active in “Team Impact,” an organization connecting children diagnosed with a medical illness to college athletics. She has also volunteered for the Special Olympics, helping athletes prepare for their games.

Hope Xiong says that her parents raised her to be a leader and to be independent. “As a first-generation college student in my household, they always hoped for the success in my education,” she says. Hope is a student in the Business Scholars Program and Lubar’s Multicultural Mentoring Program. As a member of the Hmong Student Association, she has participated in many activities, including a play and short film about conflicts between religious and western beliefs in seeking help for mental health issues. In 2019, with the encouragement of her father, Hope created an e-commerce business called HX Cosmetics because she wanted to offer a cosmetics line that was affordable for all. Last year, she expanded her business to other selling websites and saw huge growth in her business. “Although there are many obstacles with managing a small business, I am proud of how much it has expanded,” she says. “I have grown innovatively, made financial risks, and learned through trial and error.”

Profiles of all of the members of the Lubar 25 Class of 2022 can be found at this website. They are:

• David Aleckson, Senior, Finance and Information Technology Management majors
• Benjamin Barker, Senior, Marketing major
• Avery DeBoer, Senior, Human Resources Management and Women’s and Gender Studies majors
• Jacob Diker, Senior, Marketing major
• Ellis Eberhardt, Junior, Finance and Marketing majors
• Francisco Eujenin, Junior, Marketing major
• Riley Hansen, Senior, Marketing and Supply Chain & Operations Management majors
• Taylor Hattori, Senior Marketing major
• Mathew Herman, Junior, Supply Chain & Operations Management major
• Evan Hottman, Senior, Finance major
• Wyatt Johnson, Senior, Marketing major
• Anna Kiskunas, Junior, Accounting major
• Reese Kressin, Senior, IT Management and Supply Chain & Operations Management majors
• Lauren Limbeck, Senior , Finance and Supply Chain & Operations Management majors
• Mayya Perova, Senior, Marketing and Communications majors
• Reid Pezewski, Senior, Finance, Computer Science, Economics, and Pre-Law majors
• Jackson Roh, Junior, Finance major
• Jamie Rose, Senior, Information Technology Management major
• Kailey Sharpe, Junior, Accounting major
• Lauren Spaulding, Senior, Accounting major
• Carter Tomkins, Senior, Marketing major
• Dionisios Tsioutsiopoulos, Senior, Marketing and Supply Chain & Operations Management majors
• Lindsay Van Der Wegen, Junior, Accounting major
• Sophia Wentz, Junior, Marketing major
• Hope Xiong, Junior, Human Resources Management major

Applications for the Lubar 25 Class of 2023 open later this year.

Many thanks to this year’s Lubar 25 sponsors: