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