Board and Leadership
United Way’s Board of Directors is a distinguished group of leaders in the Greater Cleveland area whose strategic decision-making and guidance steer the organization. We recruit people and organizations from across the community who bring the passion, expertise, and resources needed to get things done, which is reflected in the make-up of our board.
United Way of Greater Cleveland Board Members Directory
Board Leadership
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| Paul J. Dolan |
| Board Chair |
| Cleveland Indians |
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| Marc S. Byrnes |
| Immediate Past Chair |
| Oswald Companies |
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| Ira C. Kaplan |
| Vice Chair |
| Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP |
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| Gregory L. Stefani |
| Treasurer and Chair, Finance Committee |
| Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland |
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| Victor Ruiz |
| Secretary |
| Esperanza, Inc. |
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| William F. Lacey |
| Assistant Secretary |
| GE Lighting, a Savant company |
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| Keith J. Libman |
| Chair, Audit Committee |
| Bober Markey Fedorovich & Co. |
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| Felton Thomas Jr. |
| Chair, Community Impact Committee |
| Cleveland Public Library |
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| James A. Ratner |
| Chair, Governance and Nominating Committee |
| RMS Investment Group |
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| George A. Sample |
| Chair, Human Resources Committee |
| Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland |
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| Dee Bagwell Haslam |
| Chair, Marketing & Brand Strategy Committee |
| Cleveland Browns |
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| Sonali B. Wilson, Esq. |
| Chair, Public Policy Committee |
| Cleveland State University |
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| Patrick M. Pastore |
| Chair, Resource Development Committee |
| PNC Bank |
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| Delos M. “Toby” Cosgrove, M.D. |
| Distinguished Chair of the Impact Institute |
| Cleveland Clinic (Retired) |
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| August A. Napoli |
| President & CEO |
| United Way of Greater Cleveland |
Directors
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| Chris Adams |
| Park Place Technologies |
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| Thomas W. Adler |
| Playhouse Square Real Estate Services |
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| Harriet Applegate |
| North Shore Federation of Labor AFL-CIO (retired) |
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| Craig Arnold |
| Eaton Corporation |
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| Edward J. Bell |
| Gries Financial Partners |
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| India L. Birdsong |
| Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority |
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| Logan Broadbent |
| PPG Industries |
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| Maynard A. “Mike” Buck |
| Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP (retired) |
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| Matt Carroll |
| Cuyahoga County |
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| Nabil Chehade, M.D. |
| The Metrohealth System |
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| Rev. Dr. Jawanza Karriem Colvin |
| Olivet Institutional Baptist Church |
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| Michele L. Connell |
| Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP |
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| John R. Corlett |
| The Center for Community Solutions |
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| Colleen Cotter |
| Legal Aid Society of Cleveland |
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| Karen R. Cronin |
| Applied Materials |
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| Joe DiRocco |
| Fifth Third Bank |
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| David J. Enzerra |
| The Lubrizol Corporation (Retired) |
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| David C. Fulton Jr. |
| Clearstead Advisors, LLC |
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| Patrick Gareau |
| Catholic Charities |
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| Eric S. Gordon |
| Cleveland Metropolitan School District |
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| André Gremillet |
| The Cleveland Orchestra |
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| Howard W. "Hoby" Hanna |
| Howard Hanna Real Estate Services |
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| J. David Heller |
| NRP Enterprises LLC |
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| Elizabeth M. Hijar |
| The Centers for Families and Children/Circle Health Services |
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| Stephen Hoffman |
| Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation |
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| Andrea M. Hogben |
| Medical Mutual of Ohio |
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| Hon. Frank G. Jackson |
| City of Cleveland |
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| Alex Johnson, Ph.D. |
| Cuyahoga Community College |
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| Sharon Sobol Jordan |
| Unify Labs |
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| Len Komoroski |
| Cleveland Cavaliers and Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse |
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| Susan D. Krantz |
| Zinner & Company LLP |
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| Cecil J. Lipscomb |
| United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland |
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| Kevin Martin |
| Ideastream |
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| Tomislav Mihaljevic, MD |
| Cleveland Clinic |
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| Dr. David B. Miller |
| Case Western Reserve University |
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| Shari Obrenski |
| Cleveland Teachers Union |
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| Daniel O'Malley |
| North Shore Federation of Labor AFL-CIO |
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| Andrew J. “Randy” Paine III |
| Key Institutional Bank |
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| Jeffery K. Patterson |
| Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority |
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| Kim Meisel Pesses |
| Carnegie Companies, Inc. |
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| Allison Taller Reich |
| Frantz Ward LLP |
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| Ronald B. Richard |
| Cleveland Foundation |
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| Brian J. Richardson |
| Covia |
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| Enid B. Rosenberg |
| Community Volunteer |
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| Erika Rudin-Luria |
| Jewish Federation of Cleveland |
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| Jasmin Santana |
| Cleveland City Council |
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| Beverly J. Schneider |
| Steris |
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| Taras G. Szmagala Jr. |
| Eaton Corporation |
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| Daniel P. Walsh Jr. |
| Citymark Capital |
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| Paul L. Wellener IV |
| Deloitte |
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| Vanessa L. Whiting, Esq. |
| AES Management Corp. |
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| Lorna Wisham |
| First Energy |
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| Jeffrey D. Zimon |
| Zimon LLC |
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Life Directors
| Richard J. Buoncore | MAI Capital Management | |
| 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
* Deceased
Leadership and Staff
August A. Napoli
President & Chief,
Executive Officer
Helen Forbes Fields
Executive Vice President & General Counsel
Julianne Gozar
VP, Human Resources and Operations & Chief Operations Officer
Deborah Enty
VP, Finance & Chief Finance Officer
Aaron Petersal
VP, Resource Development & Chief Development Officer
William Winans
VP, Brand Strategy & Chief Communications Officer
Karen Perko
Director of Community Engagement, United Way Services of Geauga County