
Global Cleveland Board of Directors
Executive Committee
David Fleshler, Vice Provost for International Affairs, Case Western Reserve University | Chairman of the Board
Keith Libman, Partner, Bober, Marker, Fedorovich & Co. | Vice Chairman of the Board, Finance Committee Chairman
Oren Baratz, Senior Vice President of External Affairs, The Jewish Federation of Cleveland | Policy Committee Chairman
Ed Bell, President & Senior Managing Director, Wealth Management, Gries Financial, LLC | Development Committee Chairman
Fareed Siddiq, Managing Director, Wealth management Advisor, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. | Policy Committee Vice Chairman
Albert Ratner, Partner, RMS Investment Corporation | Co-Chairman Emeritus
Joe Marinucci, President and CEO, Downtown Cleveland Alliance | Governance Committee Chairman
Judge Dan Polster, Federal Judge, US District Court of the Northern District of Ohio | Finance Committee
Board of Directors
Mayor Annette Blackwell, Mayor, Maple Heights | Policy Committee
Lisa Blanchard, People Systems and Analytics Lead, Rapid Response Monitoring | Policy Committee
Abby Bruell, Volunteer | Policy Committee
Matt Carroll, Chief Economic Growth and Opportunity Officer, Cuyahoga County
Jim Cavoli, President and COO, Swagelok | Development Committee Vice Chairman
Patrick Espinosa, Attorney at Law, Lorenzon Law LLC
Hiroyuki Fujita, Founder & CEO, Quality Electrodynamics
William Gary, Executive Vice President, Workforce and Economic Development Division, Cuyahoga Community College | Policy Committee
Dr. John Holcomb, Interim Vice Provost for Academic Programs and Interim Dean, College of Graduate Studies
Elise James-DeCruise, Chief Diversity Officer, The Ad Council
Colin Jennings, Partner, Squire Patton Boggs, LLP
Sanjiv Kapur, Partner, Jones Day
Margarita S. Krncevic, Of Counsel, Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP | Policy Committee
Ryan Kozak, Senior Managing Director of Government and Nonprofit Finance, Huntington Bank | Policy Committee
David Leopold, Partner/Group Leader, Immigration, Ulmer & Berne | Policy Committee
Joe Marinucci, President and CEO, Downtown Cleveland Alliance
Claudia O’Brien, Chief Operations Officer, O’Brien Construction
Ryan Puente, Chief Government Affairs Officer, City of Cleveland
Girish Rao, Director of Information Solutions, Lubrizol | Governance Committee
Radhika Reddy, Partner, Ariel International Center, LLC | Policy Committee
Ronn Richard, President & CEO, Cleveland Foundation
Robert Rosing, President & CEO, Dwellworks, LLC
Chad Salahshour, President & CEO, 911 Cellular Ltd.
Baju Shah, Senior Fellow for Innovation, Cleveland Foundation
Kevin Smith, Senior Director, Executive Education & Strategic Engagement at College of Business at The University of Akron | Governance Committee & Policy Committee
Thomas Snowberger, Chief Human Resources Officer, University Hospitals | Policy Committee
Norman Steiner, Vice President of Business Development, Medical Mutual of Ohio
Daniel Walsh, Chief Executive officer, Citymark Capital, LLC
Megan Wilson, Chief of Staff, Cleveland Foundation | Governance Committee
Margaret Wong, President & Managing Partner, Margaret Wong & Associates Co., LPA
Sheila Wright, Executive Vice President, Policy Advisor to Albert Ratner, The Good Community Foundation
Global Cleveland Staff

Joe CimpermanPresident
Prior to joining Global Cleveland as its top executive, Joe Cimperman served 18 years on the Cleveland City Council, where he distinguished himself as a champion of the diverse peoples and cultures of Greater Cleveland. Joe, an immigrant’s son, grew up in a Slovenian-speaking household on East 74thStreet in the St. Clair-Superior neighborhood of Cleveland. He graduated from St. Ignatius High School and John Carroll University, where he was elected president of the student body. In 1997, he began the first of seven terms on Cleveland City Council. His diverse ward included the businesses and corporate offices of downtown as well as the cultures of Asiatown, Tremont, Ohio City, and the old neighborhood. Joe, a German Marshall Fellow, assumed the leadership of Global Cleveland in April of 2016. He and his wife, Nora, live in Ohio City with their two young children.