Board of Directors
United Way of Greater Cleveland
Board Leadership
Vanessa L. Whiting, Esq.
Board Chair
AES Management Corp.
Paul J. Dolan
Immediate Past Chair Cleveland Guardians
James A. Ratner
Vice Chair
RMS Investment Group
Andrew J. “Randy” Paine III
Treasurer and Chair, Finance
Key Institutional Bank
Victor Ruiz
Secretary
Esperanza, Inc.
Chris Adams
Chair, Marketing & Brand Strategy Committee
Park Place Technologies
Keith J. Libman
Chair, Investment Committee
Bober Markey Fedorovich & Co.
Kim Meisel Pesses
Chair, Community Investment Committee
Carnegie Companies, Inc.
Monte Repasky
Chair, Resource Development Committee
EY
Enid B. Rosenberg
Chair, Governance and Nominating Committee
Community Volunteer
Sonali B. Wilson, Esq.
Chair, Public Policy Committee
Cleveland State University
Jeffrey D. Zimon
Chair, Human Resources Committee
Zimon LLC
Sharon Sobol Jordan
President & CEO
United Way of Greater Cleveland
Directors
Harriet Applegate
North Shore Federation of Labor AFL-CIO (retired)
Craig Arnold
Eaton Corporation
Dr. Michael A. Baston
Cuyahoga Community College
Edward J. Bell
Gries Financial Partners
India L. Birdsong
Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority
Kip T. Bollin
Thompson Hine, LLP
Maynard A. “Mike” Buck
Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP (retired)
Matt Carroll
Cuyahoga County
Nabil Chehade, M.D.
The MetroHealth System
Kevin Clayton
Cleveland Cavaliers
Michele L. Connell
Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jenice Contreras
Northeast Ohio Hispanic Center for Economic Development
John R. Corlett
The Center for Community Solutions
Colleen Cotter
Legal Aid Society of Cleveland
David C. Fulton Jr.
Clearstead Advisors, LLC
Patrick Gareau
Catholic Charities
André Gremillet
The Cleveland Orchestra
Jerome P. Grisko, Jr.
CBIZ, Inc.
Howard W. "Hoby" Hanna
Howard Hanna Real Estate Services
Dee Bagwell Haslam
Cleveland Browns
J. David Heller
NRP Enterprises LLC
Elizabeth M. Hijar
Walter Haverfield
Stephen Hoffman
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation
Andrea M. Hogben
Medical Mutual of Ohio
Joy D. Johnson
Burten, Bell, Carr Development, Inc.
Ira C. Kaplan
Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP
Susan D. Krantz
Zinner & Company LLP
Steffany Larkins
Unison Risk Advisors
Cecil J. Lipscomb
United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland
Melissa Maki
Middlefield Bank
Kevin Martin
Ideastream
Jessica Matia
Cleveland Clinic
Tomislav Mihaljevic, MD
Cleveland Clinic
Dr. David B. Miller
Case Western Reserve University
Dr. Warren Morgan
Cleveland Metropolitan School District
Shari Obrenski
Cleveland Teachers Union
Patrick M. Pastore
PNC Bank
Jeffery K. Patterson
Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority
Ryan M. Puente
City of Cleveland
Allison Taller Reich
Frantz Ward LLP
Ronald B. Richard
Cleveland Foundation
Brian J. Richardson
Covia
Erika Rudin-Luria
Jewish Federation of Cleveland
George A. Sample
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Jasmin Santana
Cleveland City Council
Beverly J. Schneider
Steris
Taras G. Szmagala Jr.
Eaton Corporation
Felton Thomas Jr.
Cleveland Public Library
Paul L. Wellener IV
Deloitte
Lorna Wisham
First Energy
Daniel Walsh
Citymark Capital
Life Directors
Thomas W. Adler
Playhouse Square Real Estate Services
Richard J. Buoncore
MAI Capital Management
Marc S. Byrnes
Oswald Companies
Paul Clark
PNC Bank (Retired)
Alexander M. “Sandy” Cutler
Eaton Corporation (Retired)
Terrance C.Z. Egger
The Plain Dealer (Retired)
Robert W. Gillespie Jr.
KeyCorp (Retired)
Henry J. Goodman *
H. Goodman Inc.
Alex Machaskee
Alex Machaskee & Associates, L.L.C.
Morton L. Mandel *
Parkwood Corporation
Henry L. Meyer III *
KeyCorp
Sandra Pianalto
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (Retired)
Richard W. Pogue, Esq.
Jones Day
Robert S. Reitman
Riverbend Advisors
William R. Robertson
Kirkland Capital
Cheryle A. Wills-Matthews *
JALAD Group
Emeritus Directors
William E. Butler
Julien L. McCall *
Leadership and Staff
Sharon Sobol Jordan
President & Chief Executive Officer
Deborah Enty
Chief Finance Officer
Ken Surratt
Chief Development and Investment Officer
Karen Perko
Director of Community Engagement, United Way Services of Geauga County
Kristen Popelmayer
Chief Marketing and Communications Officer
