John Torinus Jr.

An economic journalist for 50 years and a business executive as well, John Torinus Jr. decided he had to use both sets of skills to reinvent a business model for the delivery of health care. He led a leveraged buyout of his company, Serigraph Inc., in 1987 and turned it into an international manufacturing company with more than 1000 employees. He was CEO for 20 years and continues as chairman. Torinus graduated from Yale in Industrial Administration and holds a master's degree in International relations from the University of Stockholm. He got his first leadership and mangement training in the U.S. Marine Corps, serving as a batallion operations officer in artilllery and as a company commander. He currently serves as chairman of the Wisconsin Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, president of BizStarts Milwaukee and as a director of a dozen for-profit adn non-profit boards. His company has held medical costs to less than a 3% annual increase over the last eight years.