Cheesemaker Paul Scharfman is 8th Annual Nilsestuen Legacy speaker

April 2, 2019 - Paul Scharfman, president of Specialty Cheese Company, Inc., will discuss leadership in difficult times with the presentation "The Neuroscientist, The Mystic and The Cheesemaker: Teaching Emotional Intelligence for Employee Retention" on Wednesday, April 10, at 2 p.m. in the Kinnickinnic Theater in the University Center at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. The event is free and open to the public.

Scharfman is also president of Getting Better, LLC.; a current member of the WI Governor’s Dairy Task Force 2.0; and, current member/founding president of the Wisconsin Specialty Cheese Institute.

Specialty Cheese Company, located in Reeseville, produces Just the Cheese brand products as well as Bharatma brand Indian cheese, La VacaRica brand Hispanic cheeses, Rich Bow brand Arabic cheese and other specialty cheeses. Prior to starting the firm Specialty Cheese Company, Scharfman held several sales and marketing positions at General Foods, Oscar Mayer Foods and Louis Kemp Seafood. Scharfman received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics at Harvard College and his M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

His presentation is part of the annual Nilsestuen Legacy Event.

Rod Nilsestuen was a UW-River Falls graduate who held several leadership positions with cooperative associations and was the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection Secretary at the time of his death in 2010. The CHS Foundation, in conjunction with the Ralph K. Morris Foundation, was instrumental in establishing the Rod Nilsestuen Legacy Event in 2012. Each spring, the UWRF Agricultural Economics Department and the UWRF Agricultural Business and Marketing Society, a student organization, organize a conference focusing on cooperatives, land use and other topics of interest to Nilsestuen.
For more information about the event, email james.white@uwrf.edu or call 715-425-3298.