Board of Directors
President
Charles A. Bittenbender
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling Inc., retired Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Chair
James B. Rosenthal
Cohen, Rosenthal & Kramer LLP, Partner
Vice President
Kathleen Cerveny
Cleveland Foundation, retired Program Director for Arts and Culture
Vice President
T. Clifford Deveny, M.D.
Summa Health, President & CEO
Treasurer
Ryan Siebel
Marcum, LLP, Assurance Partner
Secretary
William A. Powel, III
Episcopal Diocese of Ohio, Canon to the Ordinary
Assistant Secretary
Andrew Gordon-Seifert
McDonald, Hopkins, Burke, & Harber, Attorney
Chair Emeritus
Norman C. Harbert
Hawk Corporation, retired Founder
Jeffrey P. Barnett
Dorsal Capital Management, Founding Partner & CFO
and professional singer
Howard Bender*
Apollo’s Fire, Executive Director
*ex officio
William P. Blair III
McKinley Strategies, Attorney & Senior Partner
William P. Blair Company
Ann Fairhurst
Cleveland Foundation, retired Lake-Geauga Officer
Ka-Pi Hoh, Ph.D.
The Lubrizol Corporation, Management Director & Business Leader
Robert H. Jackson
Byron, Jackson & Krantz LLP, retired Partner
Thomas Forrest Kelly, Ph.D.
Harvard University, Morton B. Knafel Research Professor of Music
Richard J. Lederman, M.D.
Cleveland Clinic, Neurologist
Meng “Locky” Liu
KPMG, LLP, Audit Senior Manager
Fred J. Livingstone
Taft, Stettinus & Hollister, retired Attorney
Stephen A. Mahoney, M.D.
Ohio Permanente Medical Group, retired Urologist
Michael J. Meehan
General Counsel, Cleveland Clinic Regional Hospitals
Linda M. Olejko
Glenmede, Business Development Director
Kim S. Parry
Cleveland Museum of Art, Associate Director of Principal Gifts
Brendan Patterson, M.D.
Cleveland Clinic, Chairman of Orthopedic Surgery
David J. Reimer
Berkshire Hathaway Home Services
Phillip Rowland-Seymour
University Hospitals, Diversity & Inclusion Manager
Noha Ryder*
Apollo’s Fire, Chief Financial Officer
*ex officio
Daniel Shoskes, M.D.
Field Medical Director, Urologic Oncology Medical Affairs at Exact Sciences
Jeannette Sorrell*
Apollo’s Fire, Artistic Director
*ex officio
Kathie Stewart**
**Musicians’ Representative
Rebecca Storey
Marketing Process Analyst, Progressive Insurance
Dean M. Valore
Valore & Gordillo, LLP, Partner
Herb Wainer
Horizons Inc., Owner & Chairman
Sue Yelanjian**
**Musicians’ Representative
Akron Advisory Board
Thomas Clark, Chair
Esther Cooper
Susan Delahanty
Barbara Feld
William Foster
Walter Keith
Lori Nelson
Sandra R. Smith
Libby Upton
The Ambassadors Council
Ann Fairhurst, Co-Chair
Elizabeth Patterson, M.D., Co-Chair
Karl Bekeny
Mitchell Blair
Frances S. Buchholzer
Robert Conrad
William E. Conway
Samuel S. Hartwell
Marguerite B. Humphrey
Rabbi Roger C. Klein
Annette Lowe
Deborah H. Nash
Clara Rankin
Robert Reynolds, M.D.
Kasia G. Rothenberg, M.D.
Sandra R. Smith