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 
• David Yankovitz - Board Chair - Accenture
• Susan McConnell - President & CEO - Make-A-Wish Foundation^® of Ohio,
   Kentucky, & Indiana
• John Bear - Midwest ISO
• Anthony Boor - Blackbaud, Inc.
• Robert Daly - Zumbiel Packaging
• April Miller - SafeAuto Insurance Co.
• Andrew Paine III - KeyBanc Capital Markets
• Thomas Pate - Accenture 
• John Perez - Perez & Morris LLC
• Michael Raimondo - Abbott Laboratories
• Mark Ranalli - Nationwide Children's Hospital
• Phil Renaud II - DHL/Exel Supply Chain
• Steven Schneider – Finish Line
• Sheila Spradlin – Fifth Third Bank
• Sheri Tackett - Delta Energy, LLC
• Ronald White – Owens-Illinois, Inc.

Northeast Ohio Regional Board
• Christopher Kelly - Jones Day
• Deviani Kuhar- Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP
• Richard Marabito - Olympic Steel Inc.
• Drew McCandless - The Sherwin Williams Co.
• Laura Milgram - University Hospitals of Cleveland
• Howard Schreiber - Accenture
• Seth Uhrman - State Industrial Products Corp.
• John Warner - McKinsey & Company
• Randy Werner - OneBeacon Insurance Company
• Bob West - Medical Mutual of Ohio

Central Ohio Regional Board
• James Aten - Salient Systems
• Mark Dropsey - NetJets Inc.
• Gail Froelicher - Kinetic Insights LLC
• Chris Gempel - Microsoft
• Ray Griffin - NFL Cincinnati Bengals (Retired)
• Gina Heffner - Centric Consulting
• Kyle Pifher - Findley Davies, Inc.
• Jennifer Scholl - Ernst & Young, LLP
• Sean White - Living & Learning TV LLC

Southern Ohio Regional Board
• William Anderson - Direct Options
• Tom Bechard - Procter & Gamble
• Robert Beck – Metro Communities
• Jeffrey Bickel - The Nielsen Company
• Paul Cashen - ProjectConnect and Thrive Training
• Ann Flaherty – Meridian Medical LLC
• Julie Holt - Mercy Hospital Anderson
• Ken Jenkins – Rippe & Kingston
• Bryson Lair – Hubbard Interactive
• David Mann - Mann & Mann, LLC
• Michael Schiess - Merrill Lynch
• Steve Schulte - Oppenheimer & Co.

Northwest Ohio Regional Board
• Joseph Choate - General Motors
• Michael Henry - LaValley, LaValley, Todak & Schaefer, L.P.A.
• Kathy Jumper - Fifth Third Bank
• Douglas Kearns - Yark Automotive Group
• Amy Sprague - Innovate E-Commerce
• Gregory Taylor - Plante & Moran, PLLC

Kentucky Regional Board
• John Baumann Jr. - JK Success Enterprises LLC 
• Chrystina Blakeman - AML, Inc.
• Allan Klimusko – Hillerich & Bradsby
• Rob Mitchell – CitiCards
• Clark Orr - Orr Corporation
• Jen Roytz – Three Chimneys Farm
• Dale Schaefer - Main Line Broadcasting
• Nina Seigle - ResCare Inc.
• Dan Von Behren – CFO Services
• Kelly Will - The Will Company

Indiana Regional Board
• Matt Cornacchione - Phoenix Fabricators and Erectors Inc.
• G. Ross Dahlstrom - FedEx
• Pamela Soladine-Davis – MedTech (Retired)
• Ron Dickerson - Nucor Steel
• Jeff Fierce - LPL Financial
• Tom Hamer, Esq. - Tom Hamer Law
• Todd Philip Hillman – MISO
• Shelley Meador - Hillenbrand, Inc.
• Jeff McFarland – Deloitte
• Woodrow Myers – Myers Venture LLC
• David O'Neal - Fifth Third Bank
• Alex Paskoff - Brightpoint
• Dave Taylor - Dorel Juvenile Group