Hello and welcome to our website!

The NACE – Capital Area of Wisconsin Chapter is a great group of energetic professionals from Madison, Janesville, Wisconsin Dells, Brookfield and everywhere in between. If you haven’t had a chance to meet these dynamic people, I encourage you to come, be my guest and meet some of the most dedicated professionals in the industry! Just send me an e-mail at madisonnace@yahoo.com (see the meeting & events section for meeting details).

Our chapter started in 2003 with a small group of wildly ambitious Caterers from Madison and Spring Green who thought the Madison Area should have their own chapter. With fifty borrowed dollars and dedication to the idea of a Madison Area NACE chapter, we were chartered in July, 2004. Since that humble beginning, our chapter has grown in membership, in strength and in community involvement. As a chapter, we annually give to the Foundation of NACE and Gilda’s Club – Madison, as well as many other organizations through out the years including the Humane Society and AIDS Network. In addition to these charitable works, our chapter annually gives a student academic scholarship and an annual National Educational Conference Scholarship to one of our members.

This chapter is full of members who embody the NACE national mission statement, “To provide catering and event professionals superior education, networking, and resources to enhance career success and deliver excellence to our clients.” And it shows every day in everything that they do. In addition they have taken to heart the chapter’s vision statement, “To be leaders in building and maintaining a network of Catering Executives and affiliates who have a vision for the future.”

Congratulations to all of our members for the every day things you do to make this chapter the wonderful chapter that I am proud to be a part of!

Laurie

Laurie Wirkus
Chapter President