How Tom Erickson Took On The World, Then Came Home To Wisconsin
"Sit a while." Mirror Lake, Mondovi, Wis. around sunrise. Tom Erickson left the small town of Mondovi, Wisconsin to study electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an experience that opened the door to interesting jobs and world travel. From the moment when Erickson did a co-op program for college students at Chevron’s San Francisco office, he was on a path that had him working outside of Wisconsin for four decades. Erickson was influenced by his father, a third generation small business owner in Mondovi who had traveled around the world with the U.S. Navy,...