Our Board
BVU is governed by a board of directors comprised of business and community leaders who provide their professional expertise and leadership to achieve the mission of linking businesses and nonprofits to foster excellence in the nonprofit sector.
Officers
- David S. Goodman, Esq.
- Chair
- Managing Partner-Cleveland
- Squire, Sanders (US) LLP
- Debra Adams Simmons
- Vice Chair
- Editor
- Cleveland Plain Dealer
- Christopher Gorman
- Vice Chair
- President
- Key Corporate Bank
- Chris Swift
- Board Secretary
- Partner
- Baker Hostetler LLP
- Gregory J. Skoda, CPA
- Board Treasurer
- Chairman
- Skoda Minotti
- Richard W. Pogue, Esq.
- Chair Emeritus
- Advisor
- Jones Day
Directors
- Richard J. Batyko
- President, Regional Marketing Alliance
- Sylvie A. Bon
- Vice President, Distributor Support
- Swagelok Company
- Adam A. Briggs
- President
- Briggs Financial Gorup
- Holly Buffinton
- Executive Vice President
- PNC Bank
- Candace Campbell Jackson
- Vice President and Chief of Staff
- The University of Akron
- Michael A. Cogan
- President & CEO, Ohio
- Northern Trust Bank
- Ben Cohen
- Partner, Tax Services
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Richard C. Fedorovich
- Managing Partner
- Bober Markey Fedorovich
- Daniel Flowers
- President & CEO
- Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank
- Susan Flowers
- Vice President of Marketing
- Cleveland Vicon
- Heidi L. Gartland
- Vice President, Government Relations
- University Hospitals, Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital
- David G. Goodall
- Executive Vice President & Chief Commercial Banking Officer
- FirstMerit Corporation
- Carl J. Grassi
- President
- McDonald Hopkins
- Maia Hansen
- Partner
- McKinsey & Company
- Sean P. Hennessy
- Senior Vice President- Finance & CFO
- The Sherwin-Williams Company
- Andrew Jackson
- Community Philanthropist
- Ira C. Kaplan
- Managing Partner
- Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP
- Philip S. Kaufmann
- Partner
- Stark & Knoll Co., L.P.A.
- Christoper M. Kelly
- Partner-in-Charge, Cleveland
- Jones Day
- Unhee Kim
- System VP, Service Lines and Ancillary Services
- Summa Health Systems
- Robert J. Klonk
- Chief Executive Officer
- Oswald Companies
- Joseph M. LaGuardia
- Principal
- LaGuardia Group, LLC
- Kevin S. Lauterjung
- Executive Vice President, Managed Care
- Medical Mutual
- Dennis Lehman
- Executive Vice President of Business
- The Cleveland Indians
- John MacIntosh
- Managing Partner
- KPMG
- Jackie McDermott
- Program Manager
- Alcatel-Lucent University
- David Meyers
- OM Group Inc.
- Patricia W. Nobili
- Executive Director
- Achievement Centers for Children
- Geralyn M.Presti
- General Counsel, Senior Vice President & Secretary
- Forest City Enterprises,Inc.
- E.R. (Chip) Preston III
- President
- Spiral Brushes, Inc.
- Kip Reader, Esq.
- Managing Partner
- Ulmer & Berne LLP
- Deborah Z. Read
- Managing Partner
- Thompson Hine, LLP
- Donald J. Richards
- Accenture (Retired)
- William Ruschhaupt, M.D.
- Chairman, Global Patient Services
- Cleveland Clinic Foundation
- Michael E. Steele
- Vice President of Finance & Planning, Fluid Power Group
- Eaton Corporation
- Lorraine Vega
- Senior Vice President
- KeyBank Foundation
- Deborah Vesy
- President & CEO
- Deaconess Community Foundation
- Thomas A. Waltermire
- Chief Executive Officer
- Team NEO
- Chas Withers
- President
- Dix & Eaton
