Board of Directors
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.
Board Officers
Executive Committee Members
Our Team
Nic Barlage
Rock Family of Companies
CEO & President
Trina Bediako
New Horizons Baking Company, Inc.
President
Michele Connell
Squire Patton Boggs
Global Managing Partner
Severine De Wagheneire
Accenture
Managing Director
Taylor Evans
Rust Belt Recruiting
President
Christopher Gorman
KeyCorp
Chairman, CEO, and President
Jerry Grisko
CBIZ
President & CEO
Dee Haslam
Haslam Sports Group
CEO
Tony Helton
Medical Mutual
President and CEO
Kevin Johnson
NexGen Interactive
Managing Partner
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Eric Kaler
Case Western Reserve University
President
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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
Paulo Ruiz
Eaton
Chief Executive Officer
Robert Smith
Cerity Partners
Partner, Market Leader
Eddie Taylor Jr.
Taylor Oswald
President
Brian Tierney
FirstEnergy
Chairman, President and CEO
Directors
Our Team
Chris Adams
Park Place Technologies
President & CEO
Bill Baraona
Flex Media
President & Founder
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
Bruno Biasiotta
Covia
CEO
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
Mary Ann Cordiano
CMIT Solutions
Owner
Bill Cosgrove
Union Home Mortgage
President & CEO
Jeffrey Cox
Savant Systems
EVP & COO
Shakorie Davis
Next Generation Construction
President
Todd Diacon
Kent State University
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
Megan Fellinger
Morrison Products
CEO
Roger Frank
Little Jacket
Managing Partner | COSE Executive Committee Member
Hiroyuki Fujita
Canon Healthcare USA
Chairman
Christopher Gessner
Akron Children’s Hospital
CEO
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
Rusty Harris
Enbridge
Vice President, Gas Distribution
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
Ansir Junaid
Junaid Group
Chairman
Ashish Khandpur
Avient
CEO
Ariane Kirkpatrick
The AKA Team
CEO and President
Bob Klonk
Oswald Companies
CEO & Chairman
Matt Kuchta
Citizens Bank
Ohio Market Executive
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
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
Heidi Murphy
Warwick Communications
Principal and Vice President of Finance
Jim Mylen
KPMG, LLP
Managing Partner, Cleveland
Sundaram Nagarajan
Nordson
President and CEO
Matt Nipper
Fifth Third Bank
President, Northern Ohio
Tony Pietrocola
Agile Blue
President & Co-Founder
John Saada, Jr.
Jones Day
Partner-in-Charge, Cleveland Office
Federico Sarzi Braga
Nestle
President, Frozen Foods Division
Vijay Shankar
Kichler Lighting
President & CEO
Laura Steinbrink
Emerald Built Environments
CEO
Frank Sullivan
RPM International
Chairman and CEO
Aaron Swartz
Ernst & Young
Cleveland Office Managing Partner
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
Ed Weinfurtner
Great Day Improvements
Executive Chairman
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
Adam Zelwin
PwC
Managing Partner, Cleveland
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
