WELCOME STEPHANIE SCHMIDT AND BEN SWANSON

Stephanie Schmidt is newly retired and is excited to include Rotary service in her life. Stephanie spent her career in technology, digital transformation led her using Agile project management as a guide. Throughout her career, Stephanie has been trusted to lead organizations' most complex, high-visibility technology initiatives. She has partnered with executive leadership to transform strategy into execution, bringing structure to ambiguous situations and delivering business-critical programs with minimal oversight. Her key experiences include enterprise AI initiatives, digital transformation, Workday implementations, cloud migrations, M&A integrations, Agile transformation, and PMO leadership. She is a skilled collaborator.

Stephanie's classification is Community Volunteer. Her sponsor is Michael Birdman.

Ben Swanson was inducted into Edina Morningside Rotary on Tuesday, September 29th. Ben is a Manager on the Advisory team with Abdo, working out of the Edina office. Ben works with businesses and their owners to solve problems that may arise around staffing changes in the finance department by providing outsourced accounting and controllership services. Ben has working knowledge in QuickBooks, can assist with financial statement preparation and putting together report packages.

Ben's classification is Business Finance Solutions. His sponsor is Brandon Vitale.

For information about Rotary membership, contact EMRC Membership Director Nathon Park.