# Austin Ramirez

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{{Short description|American swimmer (born 1978)}}
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{{Infobox swimmer
| name=Agustin Ramirez 
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| fullname = Agustin Ramirez
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| nationality = {{USA}}
| strokes = [Freestyle](/source/freestyle_swimming) 
| club = Elmbrook 
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1978|6|30}}
| birth_place = [Brookfield, Wisconsin](/source/Brookfield%2C_Wisconsin)
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{{MedalSport | Men's swimming}}
{{MedalCountry | the United States}}
{{MedalCompetition|[World Championships (LC)](/source/FINA_World_Aquatics_Championships)}}
{{MedalGold|[1998 Perth](/source/1998_World_Aquatics_Championships)|[Team 5 km](/source/Open_water_swimming_at_the_1998_FINA_World_Championships_%E2%80%93_Team_5K)}}
{{MedalCompetition|[Pan American Games](/source/Pan_American_Games)}}
{{MedalSilver | [1999 Winnipeg](/source/1999_Pan_American_Games) | [400m freestyle](/source/Swimming_at_the_1999_Pan_American_Games)}}
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'''Austin Ramirez''' (born June 30, 1978) is the president and CEO of [HUSCO International](/source/HUSCO_International).<ref name=mbj>{{cite news|last1=Rovito|first1=Rich|title=Ramirez follows father's footsteps at Husco|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/print-edition/2011/11/04/ramirez-follows-fathers-footsteps-at.html|accessdate=July 11, 2015|publisher=Milwaukee Business Journal|date=November 4, 2011}}</ref> He replaced his father, Agustin Ramirez, who was CEO for 25 years.<ref name=mbj />

Ramirez graduated from the [University of Virginia](/source/University_of_Virginia) with a degree in [Systems engineering](/source/Systems_engineering) and spent two years working as a consultant at the San Francisco office of [McKinsey and Company](/source/McKinsey_and_Company), a global management consulting firm.<ref name=mbj />

Ramirez worked for a year as a project manager at Husco, then went to graduate school at [Stanford Graduate School of Business](/source/Stanford_Graduate_School_of_Business) in [Palo Alto, California](/source/Palo_Alto%2C_California)<ref name=mbj /> as a [Goldman Sachs Fellow](/source/Goldman_Sachs_Fellow) and graduated as an [Arjay Miller Scholar](/source/Arjay_Miller_Scholar).

Ramirez became CEO of Husco's automotive business in 2008.<ref name=mbj />

Previously Ramirez was a [freestyle](/source/freestyle_swimming) swimmer from United States. He represented his native country at the [1998 World Aquatics Championships](/source/1998_World_Aquatics_Championships) in [Perth, Western Australia](/source/Perth%2C_Western_Australia), competing in two individual events (5&nbsp;km).

Ramirez sits on a number of education-focused boards including: [Teach for America](/source/Teach_for_America), [Boys and Girls Clubs](/source/Boys_%26_Girls_Clubs_of_America), [YMCA](/source/YMCA), and [United Performing Arts Fund](/source/United_Performing_Arts_Fund). He is also director of the [Greater Milwaukee Committee](/source/Greater_Milwaukee_Committee), [Metropolitan Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce](/source/Metropolitan_Milwaukee_Chamber_of_Commerce) and [Young Presidents' Organization](/source/Young_Presidents'_Organization).

==References==
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*[http://www.usaswimming.org USA Swimming]

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Category:Sportspeople from Brookfield, Wisconsin
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Category:World Aquatics Championships medalists in open water swimming
Category:Swimmers at the 1999 Pan American Games
Category:Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
Category:Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in swimming
Category:Henry Crown Fellows
Category:20th-century American sportsmen

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