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CRAIN’S CLEVELAND BUSINESS
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JULY 29 - AUGUST 4, 2013
GOING PLACES JOB CHANGES ARCHITECTURE RDL ARCHITECTS INC.: Jonathan Cana to senior project manager; Kevin Dreyfuss-Wells to senior designer; James Viviani to project manager; Vincent Sassano to project designer.
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president, equipment finance.
NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY: Denise Inman to director, integrated pharmaceutical medicine degree program; Heidi Terry to executive director, enrollment management.
SS&G: Courtney Ockenden to senior associate, entrepreneurial services group; Mario Ciclone to associate, tax; Steve Newton to associate, IT; Ilona Aronov to senior associate, tax.
ENGINEERING
SS&G HEALTHCARE: Desarae Simon to senior help desk staff; Kendra Gudakunst and Pamela Smith to billing specialists.
AUSTIN CO.: Erica Compton to BIM implementation manager; Ron Thieret to senior estimator; Jason Gergotz to senior electrical engineer; Jonathan Stewart to mechanical engineer; Roy Harmon to structural designer; Billiejo LaSage to design specialist II; Aaron Jones to project engineer; Mike Anthony to location analyst. TECHNICAL ASSURANCE INC.: Will Roess to vice president, corporate development; Carrie Ann Tripodo to office manager; Lisa Anselmo to coordinator, major corporate accounts; Chris Jasinski to director of engineering and enclosure commissioning.
HEALTH CARE AKRON GENERAL: Jim Armstrong to director of public relations and communications.
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LEGAL LITTLER MENDELSON P.C.: Bradley A. Sherman to office managing shareholder, Cleveland. SUTTER O’CONNELL: Doug Miller to CFO; Tiffany Allison to associate.
SISTERS OF CHARITY HEALTH SYSTEM: Mark Yantek to executive director, Regina Health Center.
IVIDEO TECHNOLOGIES LLC: Kevin Soltzberg to account manager, Cleveland.
HOSPITALITY ALOFT HOTEL CLEVELAND/BEACHWOOD: John
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TRANSACTION REALTY: Philip Compton and Anitra Boyt to sales associates.
TECHNOLOGY
BOARDS CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN BAR FOUNDATION: Ginger F. Mlakar (Cleveland Foundation) to
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Susan R. Hurwitz to assistant secretary; Barbara Bellin Janovitz to treasurer; Harvey A. Siegel to assistant treasurer; Kenneth G. Hochman to immediate past chair.
BAR 25 LLC: Jeff Draeger to assistant general manager, Market Garden Brewery, McNulty’s Bier Markt, Bar Cento and Nano Brew Cleveland.
REAL ESTATE
GE CAPITAL CORPORATE FINANCE: Garrett Myers to vice
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Gaydos to general manager; Darlene Figlioli to director, sales.
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS CASE MEDICAL CENTER: Tony Wynshaw-Boris, M.D., to chair, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences.
FINANCIAL SERVICE
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president; Thomas L. Feher to vice president; Drew T. Parobek to treasurer; Hugh E. McKay to vice president, endowment; Larry W. Zukerman to vice president, special events. MONTEFIORE: Steven S. Willensky to chair; Lawrence A. Mack to chair-elect; Ira S. Goffman, David B. Orlean and Ben Sheridan to vice chairs; June E. Taylor to secretary; Margo Vinney to assistant secretary; Idelle K. Wolf to treasurer; Bruce E. Cweiber to assistant treasurer; Andrew W. Hoffmann to immediate past chair. MONTEFIORE FOUNDATION: Andrew W. Hoffmann to chair; Jeffrey S. Davis, Robert A. Fuerst and Elaine J. Gilbert to vice chairs; Harriet L. Fader to secretary;
MONTEFIORE HOUSING CORP.: Robert M. Lustig to chair; David R. Hexter and Scott H. Polster to vice chairs; Daniel E. Rocker to secretary; Bradley Sherman to assistant secretary; Irv Berliner to treasurer; Alan B. Blumenthal to assistant treasurer; Ben Sheridan to immediate past chair. OHIO ASSOCIATION OF HEALTH UNDERWRITERS: Joe Blasco (Frank Agency Inc.) to president, Northeast chapter; Nancy Kuzenko (Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield) to president, Western Reserve chapter.
AWARDS ERNST & YOUNG: Gary Schuster (OMCO) received the 2013 Entrepreneur of the Year Northeast Ohio Award, distribution and manufacturing category.
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Ohio Aerospace Institute’s new partnership raises teaching bar By LAURA STRAUB clbintern@crain.com
The partnership that brings together the Ohio Aerospace Institute, a nonprofit in Cleveland that supports the state’s aerospace industry, and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Center for Aviation and Aerospace Leadership is a collaboration that OAI hopes will help new aeronautical education programs take flight in Northeast Ohio. The leadership center is a separate entity from Embry-Riddle’s academic programs that offer leadership development programs to individuals, teams and organizations in the aviation and aerospace industry and related fields. Plans for how the partnership between OAI and the leadership center will work here are still in their infancy, said OAI president and CEO Michael Heil. “The memorandum we just signed is the first step,” Mr. Heil said. The memorandum of understanding does not define a specific long-term goal but rather a visionary goal, said Robert E. Mansfield Jr., executive director of the Center for Aviation and Aerospace Leadership and a retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general. That visionary goal focuses on benefiting both entities and advancing the aeronautical industry as a whole. Gen. Mansfield plans to visit OAI to meet with Mr. Heil and OAI se-
nior staff. During this visit, the two parties will begin to work out details for both short- and long-term plans for the partnership. Areas that OAI could tap into could include the Center for Aviation and Aerospace Leadership’s distinguished speaker series, its STEM+M program — an initiative to build and put to use a national science, technology, engineering, mathematics and manufacturing database — as well as conferences, workshops and possibly a new Embry-Riddle branch campus. With the prestige Embry-Riddle carries in the field of aeronautics, Mr. Heil said, the partnership has the potential to bring high-profile speakers to the Cleveland area as early as this fall. Gen. Mansfield recognizes Embry-Riddle isn’t a household name for those not involved with aeronautics; however, he hopes increasing the reach of the distinguished speaker program will help change that situation. Gen. Mansfield also plans to visit Lorain County Community College to discuss a potential link with the leadership center. He said he wants to help community colleges cut costs by allowing them to share high-demand curricula through a network of community colleges and companies facilitated by the leadership center. “Our view is there is a potential to organize community colleges to train the (aviation) work force,” Gen. Mansfield said. Embry-Riddle
already has a relationship with Sinclair Community College in Dayton, which is the home of WrightPatterson Air Force Base. Besides its interaction with community colleges, Embry-Riddle has 24,000 students enrolled at two residential campuses — one in Daytona Beach, Fla., and the other in Prescott, Ariz. — and more than 150 regional and online branch campuses worldwide. In the long term, Mr. Heil said he hopes to bring a branch of EmbryRiddle to Northeast Ohio. “They have a presence in Dayton and Cincinnati, but in Cleveland they’re kind of starting from scratch,” he said. The presence of an Embry-Riddle location in the Cleveland area would mean visits from traveling Embry-Riddle instructors and adjunct local faculty as well as leveraging the university’s international prestige to secure regular guest appearances from industry leaders. “We think by establishing a relationship with them and establishing ties to their faculty, that can help us with work force development,” Mr. Heil said. This is not the first time Mr. Heil and Gen. Mansfield have worked together in the field of aeronautics. They both studied at the Air Force Institute of Technology and served together within the Aerospace States Association, an organization representing states’ interest in federal aerospace policy. ■