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Marcia (Peterson) Santaga, '85 and '87
Senior Research Manager, New Products,
S.C. Johnson & Son
Family: Husband Jeff, son Jordan (18) and
daughters Alexandria (17) and Alicia (16)

Marcia Santaga a player at S.C. Johnson
Since 1993, former Phoenix basketball standout Marcia (Peterson) Santaga has been scoring points with her company, S.C. Johnson, working on brand development and new business ventures including well-known household products such as Raid, OFF, Glade, Windex, Scrubbing Bubbles, Edge and others.
      For the past three years, Santaga has taken on the role of senior research manager, working with a team of senior professionals to research new products. Her team is responsible for launching products with a minimum of $50 to $100 million in first-year sales potential. The global company she works for employs 12,000 people in more than 70 countries around the world with headquarters in Racine, Wis.
      “We are consistently in the Forbes ‘Top Places to Work’ and Working Mothers’ ‘Top Places for Women,’” she said. “I have to say, it is all true.
I love working here.”
      After graduating in 1987, she worked for former faculty member Jim Murray at JMA & Associates, then on to ShopKo as an analyst, followed by Fort Howard as a research manager before joining S.C. Johnson.
      “I’ve always felt that my education at UW-Green Bay prepared me very well for the working world, especially the Market Research and Statistics class as an undergraduate, and a marketing research internship at Schneider National,” she recalls. “Dan Alesch was invaluable in planning classes and my major professor for graduate studies. Tim Sewall was also a favorite.”
Welcome to the family:
“I met my husband (Jeff Santaga, brother to Greg and Scott Santaga) at the annual women’s basketball summer softball tournament at Circle Tap. I spent a little time at the big slide (Bay Beach) in back of Marcy’s By the Bay in March. Working Friday and Saturday nights at the Phoenix Sports Center, with people like Les Cseter ’83 and others, was unbelievably fun.”

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