JSOnline: Madison chamber leader touts Wisconsin’s high-tech ‘Third Wave’

Starting with his very first interview for the job of president of the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce, Zach Brandon made it clear: His was not a traditional plan.

Rather than focus solely on established businesses, Brandon wanted to embrace start-ups, the “scalable and salable” companies, as he called them.

Some called it a flash-in-the-pan strategy. They criticized how he never even mentioned major local employer Oscar Mayer in his vision statement. Read the full story here.