The active engagement and leadership of senior business executives are central to the GCP’s credibility and success. Consideration is given to ensure that the GCP Board represents the diversity that is present in Greater Cleveland. 

Click here to read our Board of Directors Resolution on Diversity and Inclusion. Our Board is composed of CEOs of small, mid-sized and large companies in the Cleveland Plus region, as well as executives who lead our major health care, educational, and venture capital organizations.

Chair

Scott Chaikin
Executive Chairman
Dix & Eaton 

Vice Chair

Eric Schnur
President and Chief Executive Officer
The Lubrizol Corporation

Treasurer

Joe DiRocco
Regional President 
Fifth Third Bank  

Directors

Craig Arnold
Chairman and CEO
Eaton

Brent D. Ballard 
Managing Partner 
Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP

Nevin Bansal
President and CEO
Outreach Promotional Solutions LLC

Chip Bell
Managing Director of Cleveland Office
Accenture

Rudy Bentlage
Executive Director-Market Executive
JP Morgan Chase Bank

Jodi L. Berg 
President 
Vitamix Corporation

Fernando Bertero
CEO
Fully Promoted

Julie Boland
Office Managing Partner
Ernst & Young 

Akram Boutros, M.D.**
President & CEO
The MetroHealth System

Brendan Buescher
Senior Partner
McKinsey & Co. 

John Carmichael
President, Pizza & Snacks Division
Nestlé USA, Inc.

Rick Chiricosta
Chairman, President & CEO
Medical Mutual

Lonnie Coleman
Chairman, Owner & President
Coleman Spohn Corporation

Bill Cosgrove
President & CEO
Union Home Mortgage Corp. 

Paul J. Dolan 
Chairman and CEO 
Cleveland Indians Baseball Co. LP

James E. Eck
Vice President & General Manager
Ohio & West Virginia Distribution
Dominion Energy Ohio

José C. Feliciano 
Chairman 
Hispanic Roundtable of Cleveland 

Dr. Hiroyuki Fujita
Founder and CEO, Quality Electrodynamics
Chief Technology Officer, Canon Medical Systems Corporation, MRI Division
Honorary Consul of Japan in Cleveland

Christopher Gorman
Vice Chairman and President of Banking
KeyCorp

Brad Harmon
President
Advance Ohio

David Heller
Managing Member
The NRP Group

Alex Johnson, Ph.D.**
President
Cuyahoga Community College

Kevin Johnson
Managing Partner
NexGen Interactive

Elizabeth B. Juliano 
Founder and CEO
Litigation Management, Inc. 

Bob Klonk
CEO
Oswald Companies

Len Komoroski 
CEO
Cleveland Cavaliers/Quicken Loans Arena

Bill Lacey
President and CEO
GE Lighting, a Savant company

Daryl Z. Laisure
President and CEO
ZIN Technologies, Inc.

Ed Largent III
President, CEO & Board Chair
The Westfield Group

Heather Lennox
Partner-in-Charge, Cleveland Office
Jones Day

Bob Littman
Office Managing Partner
BDO USA, LLP

Joe Lopez
President and CEO
Artessa Building Group LLC

Jason Lucarelli
CEO
Minute Men Staffing Services

John MacIntosh
Managing Partner, Northeast Ohio
KPMG

Jim Malz
Midwest Regional Executive State President – Ohio
Citizens Bank

Christopher Mapes 
Chairman, President and CEO 
Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. 

Jeneen Marziani
Senior Vice President
Ohio Market President
Bank of America

Bonnie Matthew 
President and Owner 
Food for Thought Catering

Loretta J. Mester**
President and CEO
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Tomislav Mihaljevic
CEO and President
Cleveland Clinic

Rob Moll
CEO
MTD Products Inc.

Marvin Montgomery
President
The Sales Doctor  

John Morikis
Chairman, President and CEO
The Sherwin-Williams Company

Scott Mueller 
Chief Executive Officer
Dealer Tire 

Randall Myeroff
Chief Executive Officer
Cohen & Company

Frederick R. Nance 
Global Managing Partner 
Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP  

Tim Opsitnick
Executive Vice President and General Counsel
Technology Concepts and Design, Inc.

Lawrence E. Oscar
Ohio Regional Coordinating Partner
Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP

Pat Pastore
Regional President
PNC Bank

Robert Patterson
President and CEO
Avient (formerly PolyOne)

Cheryl Perez
President
Benefit Innovation Group (BIG) HR

Marla Perez-Davis
Deputy Director
NASA Glenn Research Center

Deborah Z. Read 
Managing Partner 
Thompson Hine LLP 

Sean Richardson
Cleveland Regional President
Huntington National Bank

Walt Rosebrough
President and CEO
STERIS

Mark Ross
Cleveland Office Managing Partner
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP 

Rion Safier 
Owner 
Rion Safier Accounting LLC

Harlan Sands
President
Cleveland State University  

Mark Smucker
President and CEO
The J.M. Smucker Company

Barbara R. Snyder 
President 
Case Western Reserve University

Michael E. Stanek
Co-owner and CFO
Hunt Imaging LLC 

Frank C. Sullivan 
Chairman and CEO 
RPM International, Inc. 

Eddie Taylor Jr. 
President 
Taylor Oswald 

Tameka Taylor
President
Compass Consulting Services LLC

Adrian Thompson
Co-Partner-in-Charge and Chief Diversity Officer
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP

Gabriel Torok
Vice President
Preemptive Solutions LLC

Micki Tubbs
CEO
FIT Technologies 

Jugal K. Vijayvargiya
President and CEO
Materion

Brett Wall
Chief Operations Partner
BakerHostetler LLP

Tony Weber
CEO
Goldfarb Weber Creative Media 

Paul Wellener
Managing Principal
Deloitte Services LLP

Vanessa Whiting
CEO
AES Management Corporation

Thomas L. Williams
Chairman and CEO
Parker Hannifin Corp.

John G. Young
Owner
Speed Exterminating Co.

Alan M. Zang
Regional President
U.S. Bank

Thomas F. Zenty III 
Chief Executive Officer 
University Hospitals    

 

*Federal Installation Liaison  **Other nonvoting member