Board of Directors
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Dick Radatz, Jr. - President
Dick Radatz, Jr. is a co-founder of the Northwoods League and has an educational background and work experience in sports administration. Upon completion of a Master’s degree in Sports Administration, from Ohio University, Dick worked as an Administrative Assistant for the Los Angeles Dodgers at their Spring Training site in Vero Beach, FL. He then spent a year as General Manager of the Boston Red Sox entry in the New York-Penn League, setting a single-season attendance record, before serving six years managing the business operations of the Boston Red Sox Spring Training site in Winter Haven, FL, and as General Manager of the Red Sox wholly-owned subsidiary in the Florida State League, where he set another single-season attendance record. He was named Florida State League Executive of the Year in 1986. Following his pro baseball tenure, Dick was Assistant Director of Operations for Michigan Special Olympics. Dick is a graduate of Albion College (MI) with a B.A. in Economics and Management. He was also Captain of the baseball team at Albion and a four-year letter winner.
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William McKee - Vice-President and Assistant Treasurer
Bill McKee is a co-founder of the Northwoods League, and a former co-owner of the Rockford Expos Professional Baseball Club of the Class A Midwest Baseball League, the Erie Sailors Professional Baseball Club of the Class A New York-Penn League, the Albany Polecats Professional Baseball Club of the Class A South Atlantic League, the Pocatello Giants Professional Baseball Club of the Class A Pioneer League, and the Rockford Lightning of the Continental Basketball League. He has a B.A. degree from Bowling Green University. Bill was a co-founder, Vice President and Actuary of Parsons, McKee, Sommers and Company, in Cleveland, OH, a business consulting firm in the area of retirement and medical care programs for corporate clients. Prior to co-founding the firm, he worked in similar capacities with national consulting firms in Chicago and Los Angeles. Bill is now retired and splits his time between Florida and Ohio.
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Robert D. Finnell - Corporate Secretary
Robert D. Finnell brings over twenty-five years of experience as inside legal counsel to rapidly growing private and publicly-held technology companies. Mr. Finnell was formerly Vice President and General Counsel of PeopleSoft, Inc., which was consistently one of the world's most highly respected software companies. As PeopleSoft's first chief legal officer, over a six year period he created and managed the complete legal support infrastructure as total revenue doubled every year from $40M to $1.5B and total company personnel increased from 250 to over 7,000. Since 2005, Mr. Finnell has served as SVP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Calypso Technology, Inc., a leading global application software provider for the capital markets industry, financial institutions and other companies participating in the world’s financial markets. Mr. Finnell holds a J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law and a double B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Michigan.
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Kathy Radatz - Treasurer
Kathy Radatz brings over twenty-five years of Human Resources (HR) experience in financial services and defense technology industries. As a Senior HR Officer for Citigroup, she has Human Resources and Training responsibility for 112,000 employees across 100 countries for the Global Operations and Technology organization supporting the credit card, retail banking and investment banking businesses. In addition, she has successfully led global HR re-engineering efforts and integration activities for several major acquisitions. Prior to joining Citigroup, Kathy held positions of increasing responsibility in all areas of HR at Harris Corporation. She has MBA and BBA degrees from the University of Michigan.
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Gary Hoover - General Counsel
In addition to serving as General Counsel of the Northwoods League, Gary Hoover is president of his own law firm in Centennial, Colorado. Gary has handled all manner of corporate transactions, litigation, entity formations (including numerous non-profit and tax-exempt organizations), and was selected by a national consulting firm to present at various seminars on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, regarding corporate governance and compliance. Previously, Gary was general counsel for a fully-integrated real estate development and construction company where he oversaw legal, human resource, and risk management matters. Gary also has substantial trial experience from his ten-year stint as a prosecutor in California, including two capital murder prosecutions, several homicide cases, and many other “high profile” cases. He has appeared on Court TV as a guest commentator regarding cases of national interest, and was a contributing author to the Handbook of Acoustical Measurements and Noise Control, published by McGraw-Hill as a result of his experience working for the outside counsel to Orange County California’s John Wayne Airport and the Unified Port District of San Diego on aviation-related matters. Gary is Co-Founder, Vice-President and Board member of Teen Rescue USA, a non-profit aimed at reducing the teen suicide rate. Gary earned an MBA from the University of Denver, a Juris Doctorate from California Western School of Law (where he was President of the student bar association and class graduation speaker), and Bachelor of Science degree in Aviation Management from Metropolitan State College. Gary is married with two children and resides in the Denver metropolitan area.
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Vern Stenman - League Affiliates Committee Representative
Vern Stenman brings a unique perspective and experience to the NWL Board of Directors. The 2003 and 2005 Northwoods League Executive of the Year as General Manager of the Madison Mallards deserves much of the credit for making the Mallards, by far, the greatest success story in Summer Collegiate Baseball. His innovative promotional ideas and steady vision have contributed to the team's rising attendance each of the past seven seasons—including consecutive 200,000+ attendances from 2006 to 2009. Now as President of the Mallards and Owner/President of the expansion Wisconsin Rapids Rafters, Stenman continues to make his mark on the Northwoods League. Prior to Madison he was an intern and later Assistant GM for the St. Cloud Rox from 1997 to 2000 before taking a corporate account position with the NHL's Minnesota Wild for a year. Stenman and wife Kallie have one child, daughter Chloe Mae, who turned two in September. He is originally from St. Cloud, MN.
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