Global Cleveland Board of Directors
Executive Committee
Mr. Joe Marinucci, Volunteer/Former President and CEO, Downtown Cleveland Alliance | Chairman of the Board
Mr. Keith Libman, Partner, Bober, Marker, Fedorovich & Co. | Finance Committee Chairman
Mr. Ed Bell, President & Senior Managing Director, Wealth Management, Gries Financial, LLC | Development Committee Chairman
Mr. Jim Cavoli, President and COO, Swagelok | Vice Chairman
Mr. William Gary, Executive Vice President, Workforce and Economic Development Division, Cuyahoga Community College | Workforce Committee Chair
Mr. Albert Ratner, Partner, RMS Investment Corporation
Judge Dan Polster, Federal Judge, US District Court of the Northern District of Ohio | Finance Committee
Ms. Megan Wilson, Chief of Staff, Cleveland Foundation | Governance Committee Chair
Board of Directors
Mayor Annette Blackwell, Mayor, Maple Heights | Policy Committee
Ms. Erin Brown | Attorney at Law, Brown Immigration
Mr. Matt Carroll, Chief Economic Growth and Opportunity Officer, Cuyahoga County
Mr. Jim Cavoli, President and COO, Swagelok | Development Committee Vice Chairman
Mr. Patrick Espinosa, Managing Partner, Sus Abogados Latinos
Mr. David Fleshler, Vice Provost for International Affairs, Case Western Reserve University
Dr.Hiroyuki Fujita, Founder & CEO, Quality Electrodynamics
Dr. John Holcomb, Interim Vice Provost for Academic Programs and Interim Dean, College of Graduate Studies
Mr. Colin Jennings, Partner, Squire Patton Boggs, LLP
Mr. Sanjiv Kapur, Partner, Jones Day
Ms. Margarita S. Krncevic, Of Counsel, Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP | Policy Committee
Mr. Ryan Kozak, Senior Managing Director of Government and Nonprofit Finance, Huntington Bank | Policy Committee
Ms. Abbie Levin | Senior Vice President of Operations, Jewish Federation of Cleveland
Ms. Claudia O’Brien, Chief Operations Officer, O’Brien Construction
Chief Ryan Puente, Chief Government Affairs Officer, City of Cleveland
Mr. Girish Rao, Director of Information Solutions, Lubrizol | Governance Committee
Ms. Radhika Reddy, Partner, Ariel International Center, LLC | Policy Committee
Mr. Ronn Richard, President & CEO, Cleveland Foundation
Mr. Robert Rosing, President & CEO, Dwellworks, LLC
Mr. Chad Salahshour, President & CEO, 911 Cellular Ltd.
Mr. Baiju Shah, President & CEO, Greater Cleveland Partnership
Mr. Kevin Smith, Associate Dean, External Relations for Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School | Governance Committee & Policy Committee
Mr. Norman Steiner, Vice President of Business Development, Medical Mutual of Ohio
Mr. Daniel Walsh, Chief Executive officer, Citymark Capital, LLC
Mr. Clifton R. S. Williams, III, Director of Public Affairs, Taft
Ms. Megan Wilson, Chief of Staff, Cleveland Foundation | Governance Committee
Ms. 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.