Cleveland Council on World Affairs
Board of Directors FY 2012-2013

OFFICERS:

Chair of the Board
WAEL KHOURY, MD
Head of Cardiology
Marymount Hospital

Vice-Chairs:
MICHAEL G. MEISSNER
Partner
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, LLP

CHRISTOPHER BLAKE
Partner & Chair of International Practice Group
Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP

JOHN A. HELLMAN
President
Creative Development

Secretary
J. DONALD CAIRNS
Attorney
Spieth, Bell, McCurdy, Nowell

Assistant Secretary
MARY ANN CONN-BRODY
Civic Volunteer

Treasurer
GEORGE P. FARRAGHER
Managing Director
Forensic Financial Investigation Practice
BBP Partners LLC

Directors:

RAJ AGGARWAL, Ph.D.
Professor of Business & Finance
College of Business Administration
University of Akron

ALLYSON S. BACH
Attorney
Sr. Counsel/Corporate Securities & Equity Plan Administrator
Aleris International Inc.

GREGORY CHEMNITZ
Vice President General Counsel
Materion Corporation

AMBASSADOR CHARLES DUNBAR
Former President, Cleveland Council on World Affairs
Department of International Relations
Boston University

RICHARD P. EASTBURN
Vice President
UBS

HOWARD B. EDELSTEIN
Edelstein Financial Corp.

MICHAEL ELLIS
Partner
Porter Wright Morris & Arthur

SEDA ERGUN
Environmental Project Manager
URS Corporation

BETTY FARMER
Executive Director of Planned Giving
Hiram College

JUDI FENIGER
Civic Volunteer

DAVID FLESHLER
Associate Provost for International Affairs
Case Western Reserve University

SAMIR D. GAUTAM
Vice President
J. P. Morgan/Private Wealth Management

WILLIAM GOLDMAN
Civic Volunteer

RICHARD L. GREINER
Former Owner & President
Dodd Camera

DONALD F. HASTINGS
Chairman Emeritus
The Lincoln Electric Company

BARBARA HAWKINS
Civic Leader
Former President, League of Women Voters

JENNIE HWANG, Ph.D.
CEO
H-Technologies Group

SARA JAQUAY
Freelance Writer

THOMAS L. JELEPIS
Broker
The BEC Group

GARY R. JOHNSON
President & CEO
Thin Battery Technologies, Inc.

PRADIP KAMAT
President
INDUS International Inc.

MANJIT S. KHUBAN
Vice President, Private Banker
FirstMerit Bank

REBECCA KOPP
Of Counsel Attorney
Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, LLP

VALARIE McCALL
Chief of Government Affairs
City of Cleveland/Office of the Mayor

GERALD MEYER
Sr. Dir., Business Development (retired)
Greater Cleveland Partnership

TODD J. MORGANO
Senior Vice President/Director of Public Relations
Marcus Thomas LLC

DEBORAH E. MORIN, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Educational Leadership
Cleveland State University

DONALD W. MORRISON
Corporate Attorney (retired)

TERRY NAUCK
President
True North Business Advisors

AMBASSADOR JOHN D. ONG
B. F. Goodrich (Chairman Emeritus)
U. S. Ambassador to Norway (2002-2005)

STEPHEN J. PETRAS, Jr.
Partner & Head of International Department
Baker & Hostetler, LLP

HENRY PRECHT
Former President
Cleveland Council on World Affairs

W. DONI RIDDLE
Vice President of Global Accounts
Sherwin-Williams Company

DAVID W. ROWAN
Chief Legal Officer & Secretary
Cleveland Clinic Foundation

MICHAEL SALKIND
President
Business Tech Network

SUSAN A. SASVARI
Director, Development, Lerner Research Institute
Cleveland Clinic

JOHN (JACK) SHERWIN, Jr.
President
Mid-Continental Ventures, Inc.

FAREED SIDDIQ
Senior Vice President, CFP
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, LLC

GEORGE SIEVILA
Civic Volunteer

DAVID SILK
Partner
SGI Global Business Advisors LLC

DIANNE L. SMITH
Civic Volunteer

SETH C. TAFT
Jones Day (retired)

AMBASSADOR WILLIAM R. TIMKEN, JR.
Timken Family Partnership
U. S. Ambassador to Germany (2005-2008)

PAUL R. WILLIAMS, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Cleveland State University/CASAL Department

DAVID ZIMMER
Group Counsel - Ferro Alloys
Cliffs Natural Resources, Inc.

ROSE A. ZITIELLO
Department of Community Development
City of Cleveland