Meet Our Board Of Directors

Our Board is composed of CEOs of global, mid-market, and small companies and major health care and universities in the region. The active engagement and leadership of our board members is central to our approach and vital to our region.

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Board Officers

Board Officers

Paul Dolan

Chair

Owner and CEO Cleveland Guardians

Eddie Taylor Jr.

Secretary

President Taylor Oswald

Sean Richardson

Treasurer

Regional President, Huntington National Bank

Executive Committee Members

Our Team

Craig Arnold

Eaton

Chairman and CEO

Nic Barlage

Rock Family of Companies

CEO & President

Trina Bediako

New Horizons Baking Company, Inc.

President

Michele Connell

Squire Patton Boggs

Global Managing Partner

Bill Cosgrove

Union Home Mortgage

President & CEO

Severine De Wagheneire

Accenture

Managing Director

Taylor Evans

Rust Belt Recruiting

President

Christopher Gorman

KeyCorp

Chairman, CEO, and President

Adam Graves

Nestlé

President, Pizza and Snacking Division

Dee Haslam

Haslam Sports Group

CEO

Tony Helton

Medical Mutual

President and CEO

Kevin Johnson

NexGen Interactive

Managing Partner

Eric Kaler

Case Western Reserve University

President

Rebecca Liebert

Lubrizol

President and CEO

Tim Opsitnick

Technology Concepts and Design

Executive Vice President and General Counsel

Jennifer Parmentier

Parker Hannifin Corporation

CEO

Pat Pastore

PNC Financial Services Group

Regional President

Cheryl Perez

Cheryl C Perez Brand of Companies

CEO | COSE Board Chairwoman

Heidi Petz

Sherwin-Williams

Chair, President and CEO

Neal Restivo

Oatey

CEO

Brian Tierney

FirstEnergy

Chairman, President and CEO

Directors

Our Team

Chris Adams

Park Place Technologies

President & CEO

Chad Barnhill

JACK Entertainment

EVP and Chief Operating Offer

Michael Baston

Cuyahoga Community College

President

Chris Bellamy

Cohen & Company

CEO

Rudy Bentlage

JP Morgan Chase Bank

Executive Director-Market Executive

Fernando Bertero

Fully Promoted

CEO | COSE Executive Committee Member

Shane Bigelow

Champ Titles

CEO

Laura Bloomberg

Cleveland State University

President

Brent Blouch

Swagelok

President and Chief Operating Officer

Claude Booker

Simply Southern Sides

President

Brandon Carrus

McKinsey & Company

Managing Partner, Ohio

Fiona Chambers

Deloitte

Managing Partner, Cleveland

Lonnie Coleman

Coleman Spohn

Chairman, Owner & President

Shakorie Davis

Next Generation Construction

President

Tim Dimoff

SACS Consulting & Investigative Services

President and CEO

Fred DiSanto

Ancora Advisors

Chairman & CEO

Deborah Donley

Vocon Design

Founder and Principal

Gregg Eisenberg

Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP

Managing Partner

Patrick Espinosa

Sus Abogados Latinos

Managing Partner

Karen Fanger

K&D Properties

President

Roger Frank

Little Jacket

Managing Partner | COSE Executive Committee Member

Hiroyuki Fujita

Canon Healthcare USA

Chairman

Lourenco Goncalves

Cleveland-Cliffs

President and CEO

Stanley Gorom

Hahn Loeser & Parks

CEO & Managing Partner

Sally Gries

Gries Financial Partners

Founder and Non-Executive Chairperson

Jerry Grisko

CBIZ

President & CEO

Steven Hedlund

Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc

President and CEO

David Heller

The NRP Group

Managing Member

Chris Howse

Howse Solutions

President and CEO

Margaret Judd

Executive Arrangements

President

Elizabeth Juliano

Litigation Management

Founder and CEO

Ariane Kirkpatrick

The AKA Team

CEO and President

Bob Klonk

Oswald Companies

CEO & Chairman

Lillian Kuri

The Cleveland Foundation

CEO

John Langell

Northeast Ohio Medical University

President

Ed Largent III

The Westfield Group

President, CEO & Board Chair

Steve Laserson

Vitamix

CEO

Zhao Liu

Flynn Ming

Owner

Jason Lucarelli

Minutemen Staffing Services

CEO

Anthony Manna

M7 Holdings

Chairman and Founder

Rick Marabito

Olympic Steel Co.

CEO

Jeneen Marziani

Bank of America

President, Ohio Market

Bonnie Matthew

Food for Thought Catering

President and Owner

Dave McClain

BDO USA, LLP

Northeast Ohio Tax Practice Leader

Darrell McNair

MVP Group of Companies

President/CEO

Cliff Megerian

University Hospitals Health System

CEO

Kyle Merrill

Gilbane Building Company

Senior Vice President – Cleveland Business Unit

Tomislav Mihaljevic

Cleveland Clinic

CEO and President

Marcia Moreno

AmMore Consulting

President

Joseph Morford

Tucker Ellis

Managing Partner

Scott Mueller

Dealer Tire

Chief Executive Officer and President

Gregg Muresan

PwC

Managing Partner

Heidi Murphy

Warwick Communications

Principal and Vice President of Finance

Jim Mylen

KPMG, LLP

Managing Partner, Cleveland

Sundaram Nagarajan

Nordson

President and CEO

Tony Pietrocola

Agile Blue

President & Co-Founder

CeCe President

Presidential Consultants

Owner

John Saada, Jr.

Jones Day

Partner-in-Charge, Cleveland Office

Vijay Shankar

Kichler Lighting

President & CEO

Robert Smith

Cerity Partners

Partner, Market Leader

Kevin Stein

TransDigm Group Incorporated

President & CEO

Laura Steinbrink

Emerald Built Environments

CEO

Frank Sullivan

RPM International

Chairman and CEO

Tameka Taylor

Compass Consulting Services

President

Matthew Tenerowicz

BakerHostetler, LLP

Managing Partner

Adrian Thompson

Taft Stettinius & Hollister

Co-Partner-in-Charge and Chief Diversity Officer

Michelle Tomallo

FIT Technologies

Chief People Officer & Co-Founder

Gareth Vaughan

The Albert M. Higley Co., LLC

CEO

Jugal Vijayvargiya

Materion

President and CEO

Tony Weber

Goldfarb Weber Creative Media

CEO

Daniel Weekley

Enbridge Gas Ohio

President, General Manager

Thomas Welsh

Calfee, Halter & Griswold, LLP

Managing Partner

Tony White

Thompson Hine

Managing Partner

Vanessa Whiting

AES Management Corporation

CEO

Chas Withers

Dix & Eaton

CEO

Ryan Yost

Avery Dennison

President, Materials Group

John Young

Speed Exterminating

Owner

Observers

Our Team

Beth Hammack

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

President and Chief Executive Officer

Christine Alexander-Rager

MetroHealth

CEO

James Kenyon

NASA Glenn Research Center

Director

Jill Dietrich Mellon

VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System

CEO