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Grant H. Brohm – President/Head of Business Development/Sales

Brohm, age 37, is a Minnesota native who earned his B.S. in Business Finance from the University of Minnesota in 1989 and M.S. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1994. Prior to starting WCC, Brohm was employed in sales positions with Weather Central, Inc. in Madison, WI and American Excelsior Company in Minneapolis, MN. Brohm also worked as a Financial Analyst for General Dynamics Corporation in San Diego, CA.

As a meteorologist, Brohm has worked on-air television and radio positions and worked closely with WCC partner, Brett Wilt, to develop and market weather model products to the television weather industry.

Brett A. Wilt - Vice President/Head of Technology

Wilt, age 35, is an Ohio native who earned his B.S. in Geography/Meteorology from Ohio University in 1992 and M.S. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science from University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1994. Prior to starting WCC, Wilt was employed both as an operational forecast meteorologist and as a key Product Manager overseeing the development of weather model-based products now in use at over 250 television stations in the United States.

Wilt is but one of a few people with intimate working knowledge of the UW-Non Hydrostatic Modeling System (UW-NMS) developed by Dr. Greg Tripoli at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Wilt is familiar with many programming languages and has an excellent weather forecasting skills - winning the National Collegiate Weather Forecasting competition in 1993.

Charles D. (David) Schowengerdt - Director, Travel Division

David, age 35, is also an Ohio native, who like Wilt, earned his B.S. in Geography/Meteorology from Ohio University in 1992 and M.S. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science from University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1994. In the mid 1990’s Mr. Schowengerdt was employed as a forecaster by the National Weather Service with assignments in Seattle and Tucson. In 1998, Schowengerdt moved to Austin, Texas and began a website, www.travelforecast.com, designed to meet the weather forecasting needs of travelers on the move by offering itinerary specific forecasts for points along a route. In June of 2000, Schowengerdt joined the staff of FWC and moved to Madison to head up the travel division of WCC.

Michael R. Snow - Marketing and Advertising

Michael, age 23, is a Wisconsin native who earned his B.S. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from University of Wisconsin – Madison in May 2002. After graduation, Snow joined the WCC staff. Snow handles the advertising and marketing of Weather Depot and Travelforecast.com.

Professor Gregory J. Tripoli - Technology Advisor

One of WCC's core assets is the development and maintenance of a numerical weather prediction model known, academically, as UW-NMS (University of Wisconsin Non-Hydrostatic Modeling System). Professor Greg Tripoli is the author of UW-NMS. He has over 20 years of experience with numerical weather prediction models earning his Masters degree from Florida State in 1974 and his Ph.d from Colorado State in 1986. He jointed the faculty of the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department at UW-Madison in 1987.

Mr. Wilt worked under Professor Tripoli from 1992-1994. Their collaborative efforts helped to produce the TV weather industry's first, regular use of future forecast imagery generated from a numerical weather prediction model, implemented by Weather Central, Inc. Tripoli continues to work with Wilt and WCC to advance and perfect the UW-NMS/NAMS code.

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