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Generation Foundation Leadership

Members of the Board of Trustees

President: Glenn R. Brown, Ph.D., former Science and Technology Advisor to Ohio Governors Voinovich and Taft, and the retired senior vice-president and chief technology officer for Standard Oil of Ohio, now BP-Amoco.

Vice Presidents:

  • Nancy McCann, vice-president-marketing for Forest City Enterprises, Inc. and president of the John P. Murphy and Kulas Foundations.

  • Peter K. Ranney, a Cleveland businessman with extensive philanthropic experience and president of the P. K. Ranney Foundation.

  • Katherine T. O’Neill, member of the Disbursement Committee for the William J. and Dorothy K. O’Neill Foundation and trustee of many Cleveland nonprofit organizations.

Secretary: Phillip A. Ranney, a partner of Schneider, Smeltz, Ranney and LaFond and trustee of the Kent H. Smith Charitable Trust.

Treasurer: James D. Ireland III, Chairman and Managing Director of Early Stage Partners; president of The Elizabeth Ring Mather and William Gwinn Mather Fund; and trustee of many nonprofit organizations.

Members of the Advisory Board

  • Jacqueline Acho, The Acho Group

  • Christopher Coburn, Executive Director, CCF Innovations

  • James Cookinham, Vice President, Greater Cleveland Partnership

  • Mark Coticchia, Vice President-Research, Case Western Reserve University

  • Allen Ford, Trustee, The Abington Foundation

  • Sally Gries, CEO, Gries Financial LLC

  • Dr. Edward Hill, Cleveland State University Levin College of Urban Affairs

  • Trevor Jones, Founder/CEO, ElectroSonics Medical, Inc.

  • David Morgenthaler, Managing Partner, Morgenthaler Ventures

  • John Morley, President, Evergreen Ventures Ltd. and retired CEO, Reliance Electric

  • Hunter Morrison, Director, Youngstown State University Center for Urban and Regional Studies and former Director, Cleveland Economic Development

  • William Mulligan, Managing Director, Primus Venture Partners

  • John Nestor, President, Kirtland Capital Partners

  • Dr. Walter Plosila, Director, Battelle Public Technology Management

  • Dr. Luis Proenza, President, University of Akron

  • Bill Sanford, Chairman, SYMARK

  • William Summers, Retired Chairman, McDonald Investments

  • John Wheeler, Retired Managing Partner, Calfee, Halter & Griswold, LLP and Vice President, Case Western Reserve University

Executive Director

Robert Miller, former banking executive and president of a consultancy for nonprofit organizations.

 

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