on stroke. The Stewart & Stevenson Professor in Engineering in the department of biomedical engineering at Texas A&M University, Dr. Maitland is the school’s Engineering Experiment Station’s assistant agency director for commercialization and entrepreneurship. Jim Carnovale, BBA ’86, was recognized with Crain’s Cleveland Business’ CFO of the Year Award. He is the senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer at Judson Services, Inc. Mark Lantz, BA ’87 and MA ’90, is founder and partner of Factory Detroit Inc., an agency specializing in advertising, marketing strategy, and branding. He was one of the creators of the “Pure Michigan” tourism campaign while he was chief strategy officer at McCann Erickson in Detroit. 9 Ivan Cugel, BBA ’88, joined Wells Fargo as a financial advisor after 20 years with KeyBank. He lives in University Heights.
Michele Morgan, BA ’88, lives in Dallas and is the senior instructional designer for Tektronix Communications. Thomas S. Tyler, JD ’88, was sworn in at a ceremony at Health and Human Services headquarters in Washington, D.C. as an Administrative Law Judge for Medicare Appeals, presiding in Cleveland. 10 Ann Caresani, BBA ’88, MBA ’93 and JD ’94, is an attorney with Tucker Ellis LLP.
Paula Pietch, BSEd ’89, retired from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction as an assistant school principal. She lives in LaGrange, Ohio. Mark Sunyak, BSCE ’89 and MPA ’94, has joined RWA, Inc. as a senior project manager. The Naples, Florida-based firm provides land use planning, civil engineering, survey and mapping services.
12 Teresa Metcalf Beasley, JD ’92, was recognized in Crain’s Cleveland Business’ 2014 Women of Note. She is a partner with Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP, as well as law director for the city of Warrensville Heights.
Thomas J. Gaffney, BBA ’92, owns American Tax & Accounting Service in Southington, Ohio and recently opened a second office in Donalds, S.C. Lisa Black, BS ’93, is a best-selling author of a series of mystery novels about a fictional Cleveland forensic scientist. Black, also known as Elizabeth Becka Lansky, is a former forensic scientist in the Cuyahoga County Coroner’s Office. She now resides in Cape Coral, Fla., where she is a latent print examiner for that city’s police department. Terrence Deis, MBA ’93, is the newly named president of Saint Joseph London Hospital in Kentucky. He is the former president and CEO of UH Parma Medical Center. William A. McKinney, BA ’93, is founder and executive director of the Innovative Solutions Collective in Philadelphia. The ISC is comprised of organizations committed to working towards transformative solutions and exhibiting the ability to design and execute strategies to address old and new problems.
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13 Maryrose Sylvester, BBA ’93, was recognized in Crain’s Cleveland Business’ 2014 Women of Note. She is president and chief executive officer of GE Lighting.
Philip Pempin, MEd ’93 and education administration certificate ’97, received a contract extension to serve as superintendent of the Vermilion, Ohio schools through July 2019. He has been the district’s top administrator since 2008.
Dean DePiero, JD ’94, was appointed law director of Aurora, Ohio. He is an attorney with McDonald Hopkins.
Daniel Corn, BA ’90, works in the legal department at BTG Pactual, a global financial firm in New York City.
Robert Horvath, MBA ’94, lives in Euclid and is a senior tax analyst with Sifco Industries, Inc.
Claudia Motiu, BA ’90 and MA ’92, has been the manager of adjunct services at the western campus of Cuyahoga Community College for three years. She also supervised Tri-C’s evening/weekend program for two years.
14 Lauren O’Neil Falcone, MPA ’95, received the American Institute of Certified Planners certification. She has been with Poggemeyer Design Group, Inc. for 20 years.
Krsnanandini Dasi, BSEd ’91, is a certified family life educator/ senior minister at the Dasi-Ziyad Family Institute. She is the co-author of Heart and Soul Connection: A Devotional Guide to Marriage, Service and Love and the author of A Concise Guide to Spiritual Living: The Booklet of 8s. Drew Hocevar, MEd ’91, is retiring after 35 years as a special education teacher in the Cleveland schools. He played one of Santa Claus’ elves in the holiday classic A Christmas Story. 11 David Ritchie, BA ’91, was named director of international initiatives at the Mercer University School of Law in Macon, Ga. Dr. Ritchie, who is also a professor of law and philosophy, has been a member of the Mercer faculty since 2005.
Adam J. Banks, BA ’92, is associate professor of writing, rhetoric and digital media at the University of Kentucky.
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Jim Robey, MPA ’93 and Ph.D. ’97, works for Southwest Michigan First as the managing director of economic development for the city of Marshall.
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Brian Cassidy, BBA ’90 and MBA ’11, is a support practice manager for Microsoft Corporation. He lives in Aurora.
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Rhonda McLean, MBA ’95, is associate director of health services at Northeast Ohio Neighborhood Health Services, Inc. Lisa Ryan, BBA ’95 and MBA ’98, is a keynote speaker, author and founder of Grategy. She teaches corporations, associations and non-profits the power of gratitude in the workplace and helps them realize how employee productivity, customer retention and growth affect the bottom line.
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Christopher Hendryx, BA ’96, was promoted to director of oracle business process improvement at Sherwin-Williams. A member of the Visiting Committee for CSU’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, he is part of a task force working to expand internship opportunities for liberal arts majors. Lonny Rivera, BSEd ’96, was named associate superintendent of the Ohio Department of Education. Since June 2013 he has been superintendent of Oregon, Ohio schools.
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