Board Of Directors
A volunteer Board of Directors, representing our geographically diverse area, governs the Foundation. Board meetings are held every quarter, and in addition, there are Board Committees organized around specific areas of the Foundation operations. Our board members include the following:
Governance Board
• Juan Perez - Board Chair - Perez & Morris
• Susan McConnell - CEO, Make-A-Wish Foundation® of Greater Ohio,
Kentucky, & Indiana
• Bonita Black - Frost Brown Todd
• Anthony Boor - Brightpoint Inc.
• Paul Cashen - Focal Point Consulting
• Kevin Horton - UBS Financial Services Inc.
• Robert Mangold - Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
• Ed Muransky - Ohio Management Group
• Mark Ranalli - Nationwide Children's Hospital
• Thomas Pate - Accenture
• Phil Renaud II - DHL/Exel Supply Chain
• Sheri Tackett - Delta Energy
• Don Tassone - Procter & Gamble
• David Yankovitz - Accenture
Northeast Ohio Board
• James Bumgardner - General Motors Corporation
• Todd Bury - Bury Financial Group
• Thomas Cavalier - Butler Wick Corporation
• Denise Dufala - WOIO-TV
• George Farris - Farris Marketing
• Christopher Kelly - Jones Day
• Michael Madsen - Huntington Bank
• Nicolette Manuel - WKBN/WYFX TV
• Richard Marabito - Olympic Steel Inc.
• Drew McCandless - The Sherwin Williams Co.
• Laura Milgram - University Hospitals of Cleveland
• Gary Mrozek - National City
• Andrew Paine III - KeyBanc Capital Markets
• Kelly Becker-Rumberg - Becker Funeral Homes
• Seth Uhrman - State Industrial Products Corporation
• John Warner - McKinsey & Company
• Randy Werner - OneBeacon Insurance Company
• Bob West - Medical Mutual of Ohio
• Jason Whitehead - City of Youngstown
Central Ohio Board
• Andy Balser
• Todd Cameron - Accenture
• Brenda Dean - Huntington Private Financial Group
• Jim Dixon - Direct Response Associates
• Mark Dropsey - NetJets Inc.
• Jay Eggspuehler - Wiles, Boyle, Burkholder & Bringardner
• Gail Froelicher - Kinetic Insights LLC
• Chris Gempel - Microsoft
• Mark Gilicinski - Now Software Inc.
• John Griffin - Perficient Inc.
• Ryan Huyghe - The Crane Group
• Sean Ramsey - Information Control Corp.
• Nancy Sargeant - Grange Insurance
• Bill Sullivan - Neace Lukens
• Jeff Warnat - Microsoft
• Laura Weeks - Fifth Third Bank
• Sean White - Living & Learning TV
• David Zuppo - Nationwide Insurance
Southern Ohio Board
• William Anderson - Xperianz
• David Hart - Jump Institute
• Julie Holt - West Chester Medical Center
• Jeff Janszen - US Airways
• David Mann - Mann & Mann, LLC
• Sheila Gray Robinson - WXIX TV
• Michael Schiess - Merrill Lynch
Kentucky Board
• John Baumann Jr. - Steel Technologies Inc.
• Randy Boehme - Retired Executive
• Erica Dowd - National City Bank
• Clark "Bud" Orr - Orr Corporation
• Fred Orthmeyer - Acordia of Kentucky
• Adolph Rupp III - Rupp & Associates, Inc.
• Dale Schaefer - Radio One, Inc.
• Brent Wells - Nally & Hamilton Enterprises
• Kelly Will - The Will Company
Indiana Board
• John Bear - Midwest ISO
• Matt Cornacchione - Phoenix Fabricators and Erectors Inc.
• G. Ross Dahlstrom - FedEx
• Maurice Davison - United Auto Workers
• Jeff Fierce - Merrill Lynch
• Tom Hammer, Esq. - Tom Hamer Law
• David O'Neal - Fifth Third Bank
• John P. Smith - Brightpoint North America
• Dave Taylor - Dorel Juvenile Group
