business SPOTlight
here’s to
30 | MARCH 10 • 2022
DRIVING MICHIGAN’S ECONOMY FORWARD continued from page 29
gap with strong bipartisan
measures to invest in degree
and training programs with
the goal of having 60% of the
working population degreed
or credentialed by 2030,”
Ungerleider said.
“(But) we must do more,”
he said, “including removing
barriers to work by invest-
ing in childcare, broad-
band access and affordable
housing, which will drive
additional labor force partic-
ipation. To address some of
the immediate issues in our
K-12 education system, we
recommend using American
Rescue Plan Act funding
($6.5 billion of federal aid
provided to Michigan) to
expand teacher training and
recruitment and to invest in
before and after school sup-
port and summer learning
programs.”
HIS CAREER AT DOW
Ungerleider’s own post-sec-
ondary educational journey
began at the University of
Texas, where he studied
marketing. “It was a great
education and in terms of
dollar input per output of
knowledge, a tremendous
value for in-state students,”
he said.
Corporations, Dow among
them, recognized Texas as a
top school and recruited there.
“I was interested in business,
so the summer between my
junior and senior year I came
to work for Dow in Midland,
which I previously hadn’t
known existed.”
Dow, he said, has a com-
petitive, hardworking and
promote-from-within culture.
“That summer they threw
me in the deep end, trusting
me with an important project
concerning the fluid used for
de-icing airplanes.
“
At the time, Dow was a
large player in that market;
and a big technology shift was
taking place. We were trying
to figure out how fast it was
happening and what we could
do to differentiate ourselves. I
hadn’t yet graduated from col-
lege, and I was talking to the
FAA and to airport operators
around the world,” he said. “
At
the end of the project I made
recommendations to the busi-
ness unit’s leadership team —
it was pretty exciting stuff.”
Following his graduation,
Dow hired Ungerleider in
1990 to work in sales on
the West Coast, first in San
Francisco and then Los
Angeles. While working in
Los Angeles, he earned an
MBA at UCLA. Additionally,
he worked for Dow in
Houston twice; Danbury,
Connecticut; Philadelphia;
and Zurich, Switzerland,
before returning to Midland
in 2008 as vice president of
investor relations.
“WORKING TOGETHER WE HAVE A
LEGITIMATE SHOT AT BECOMING
A TOP 10 STATE.”
— HOWARD UNGERLEIDER
Craig E. Zucker has been appoint-
ed to the executive committee of
Maddin Hauser Roth & Heller P.C.,
in Southfield. Zucker is a share-
holder with the firm and co-chairs
its Bankruptcy, Restructuring and
Debtor-Creditor Rights group.
Hunter Pasteur,
Southeast
Michigan’s pre-
mier luxury res-
idential builder,
announced that
Jake Dangovian
has been named
vice president
of finance. Dangovian previously
served as a senior financial and
acquisitions analyst — respon-
sible for budgeting and report-
ing systems throughout Hunter
Pasteur’s project portfolio. The
new role will expand Dangovian’s
duties to include financial report-
ing, cash flow management,
trade partner management and
investor relations.
John A. MacKenzie has been select-
ed to Michigan Lawyers Weekly’s
“Up & Coming Lawyers” for 2022. He
is a shareholder with Maddin Hauser
and member of its Complex Litigation
and Risk Advisory Group.
Ronald A. Sollish has been select-
ed to Michigan Lawyers Weekly’s
2022 “Hall of Fame” class. He is a
shareholder with Maddin Hauser,
and serves as an executive com-
mittee member and chairman of its
Corporate/Employment Group.
Lauren
(Garfield)
Herrin,
37, of
Bloomfield
Township
and associ-
ate director
of Jewish
Community Relations
Council/American Jewish
Committee (JCRC/AJC) was
named as one of Oakland
County’s 40 Under 40. The
2022 class honors young
professionals who live and/
or work in Oakland County
and exemplify Oakland
Together, a vision for a
community working togeth-
er to leverage its strengths,
address its challenges and
find value in working with
regional partners.