Eugene “Pepi” Randolph, a former UW-Madison athlete with a background in sales and the law, took over the ultimate sales job last fall: leading the state’s economic development arm.
Randolph, once captain of the Badgers baseball team, has worked for Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson and the Milwaukee Brewers. In September 2004, Randolph took over for Michael Armiak as president of Forward Wisconsin, a public-private group that tries to recruit businesses.