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Attracting business talent to area is hard

The cultural shift from Wall Street to Willy Street can make it difficult to recruit top-notch management talent for Madison companies, Shawn Guse, TomoTherapy’s vice president and general counsel told a gathering of entrepreneurs and investors on Tuesday.

UW-Madison is a lure for scientific talent, but “recruiting commercial talent into Madison is a challenge,” said David Snyder, Nimblegen’s vice president and chief financial officer.