COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN SERVICES Dr. Robert A. Mengerink, MEd education administration ’74, is superintendent of the Educational Service Center of Cuyahoga County, which impacts the pre-K through high school education of some 160,000 students by providing school districts with curriculum development, fiscal management, leadership training, technology assistance, grant writing, and more. For 21 years, Dr. Mengerink served as superintendent of the Kettering and Northmont City Schools in the Dayton area. He was named Ohio Superintendent of the Year in 2008, received the national Excellence in Educational Leadership Award from the University Council for Educational Administration, and twice received the Exemplary Educational Leadership Award from the state association for school superintendents. He lives in Hinckley, Ohio. FENN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Rebecca A. Bompiedi, BS chemical engineering ’84 and MS industrial engineering ’90, recently accepted the position of senior vice president, business transformation, for Philips Lighting Americas. For the past 23 years she has been with GE Lighting, most recently as lighting transformation/ strategic initiatives leader where she led a $500 million restructuring and transformation initiative due to the global phase out of incandescent and certain types of linear fluorescent lighting. At GE, she led the Six Sigma corporate quality initiative and held leadership roles in engineering and technology in the areas of product development, manufacturing capacity management, quality, and research and development. Bompiedi serves on Fenn College’s Visiting Committee and has provided experiential learning opportunities for students at GE Lighting. She lives in Chagrin Falls. CLEVELAND-MARSHALL COLLEGE OF LAW Teresa K. Demchak, BA social work ’70 and JD law ’76, is the retired managing partner of Goldstein, Demchak, Baller, Borgen & Dardarian (now Goldstein, Borgen, Dardarian & Ho) in Oakland, Calif. A respected litigator, she was with the firm for 22 years before retiring last December. Demchak’s professional experience includes election to the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and serving as a Wasserstein Civil Rights Fellow at Harvard Law School and an adjunct professor at Hastings College of Law. She is a member of C M LAW’s National Advisory Council and established the Teresa K. Demchak Scholarship for students interested in careers in public interest law. She lives in Houston, Texas. COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Thomas F. O’Toole, BA ’79 communication and MA applied communication theory and methodology ’87, is senior vice president of marketing and loyalty/president of MileagePlus at United Airlines. He is responsible for all marketing, ancillary revenue, e-commerce, loyalty, co-brand credit cards, distribution and product management for the company.
and chief operating officer of MileagePlus, and senior vice president and president of MileagePlus. His career also includes 14 years with Global Hyatt Corporation, where he was chief marketing officer and chief information officer. He lives in Chicago. COLLEGE OF SCIENCES AND HEALTH PROFESSIONS John C. Vitullo, Ph. D. regulatory biology ’84, is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Omega Laboratories, Inc., one of only six hair drug-testing laboratories in the world. Dr. Vitullo completed two post-doctoral fellowships at the Cleveland Clinic, where he was recognized for his work on the effects of cocaine on the cardiovascular system. He also has done biomedical research at the Veterans Administration Hospital at Wade Park and Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine, and was a partner in a forensic laboratory which provided evidence analyses for more than 30 law enforcement agencies. He recently completed a three-year term on the College of Sciences and Health Professions Visiting Committee and established the John and Florence Vitullo Endowed Scholarship in honor of his parents. He lives in Cleveland. MAXINE GOODMAN LEVIN COLLEGE OF URBAN AFFAIRS Nickie J. Antonio, BS education ’80 and MPA public administration ’92, is serving her second term in the Ohio House of Representatives for District 13, which includes Lakewood, Linndale and parts of Cleveland. She chairs the Ohio House Democratic Women’s Caucus and serves as the highest-ranking member on the Health and Aging Committee. Antonio served for five years as an at-large member of Lakewood City Council. She was the first openly gay member of both the Ohio House and Lakewood Council. A former special education teacher and nonprofit administrator, Antonio has taught women’s studies and public administration courses at CSU. She serves on the board of the Cleveland Tenants Organization. She lives in Lakewood. SCHOOL OF NURSING Susan L. Collier, BA English ’76 and BS nursing ’86, is vice president of nursing/chief nursing officer at Hillcrest Hospital, ranked as one of the top 50 hospitals in the nation. She also is the mother two School of Nursing alumni. Affiliated with the Cleveland Clinic Health System since 1977, Collier operationalized the integration of care management across the Cleveland Clinic system as associate chief nursing officer for care management. She also was the chief nursing officer at South Pointe Hospital for 15 years, and held positions as director, nurse manager, nursing supervisor and staff nurse at South Pointe and Huron Hospital. For many years she has helped provide clinical training placements for CSU nursing students at Clinic facilities. Now pursuing a doctor of nursing practice degree at Case Western Reserve University, Collier has been recognized by the Plain Dealer as a “Best of the Best” nurse. This year she received the Center for Health Affairs’ Northeast Ohio Nursing Initiative Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives in Claridon, Ohio.
O’Toole joined United in 2010. Since then, he has advanced steadily, holding the positions of senior vice president and chief marketing officer, senior vice president Cleveland State University CSUOHIO.EDU
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