AMPLIFY
2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Our Mission
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A message to our members, partners and the Greater Cleveland community
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Advocacy: Key legislation advanced, support helps pass four levies
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Economic Development: Strong results drive investments, create jobs
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Physical Development: New fund capitalized; targeted investment advances
catalytic projects
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Economic Inclusion: Focus on member engagement, advancing community
benefits agreement
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Education Reform: Efforts aim to transform schools, improve outcomes
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Membership
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COSE: Empowering small business success
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2013 Board of Directors
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Looking Ahead
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GCP Staff Leadership
OUR MISSION
To mobilize privatesector leadership,
expertise and
resources to
create attractive
business conditions
that create jobs,
grow investment
and improve the
economic prosperity
of the region.
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To our members, partners and the
Greater Cleveland community
The story of Greater Cleveland’s ongoing transformation just keeps getting better.
This past year was packed with progress,
good news and momentum that is
continuing in 2014, and the Greater
Cleveland Partnership is committed to
continue playing a significant role on behalf
of the business community. Highlights
that impacted our community and our
organization include:
Opportunity Corridor received 100 percent funding from
the State of Ohio. The announcement made last July
accelerated the $324 million project, which will provide
a much-needed connectivity between University Circle
and I-490 at East 55th Street. It will serve as a catalyst
for economic and community development in nearby
communities by transforming more than 300 acres of
underutilized land into vital, neighborhood assets while
improving access to jobs, education and culture located in
University Circle.
We appreciate the leadership of GCP Board members
Terrence Egger and James Ireland who, as co-chairs of the
Opportunity Corridor Steering Committee, helped keep
the project on track and move it forward.
Meaningful, positive steps were taken by the GCP, the
City of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County and others to advance
the redesign of Public Square and develop Cleveland’s
waterfront and connect it to downtown. After decades of
discussion, we’re taking action to make the Group Plan
a reality. In 2014, dramatic changes will begin to take
shape as we break ground to reshape and revitalize Public
Square. In addition, a developer has come on board to
bring our lakefront connectivity and development plans
to fruition.
Cleveland DevelopmentAdvisors(CDA)attractedanadditional
$30 million for real estate investment. As announced at
our 2013 Annual Meeting, CDA, the GCP’s real estate
development affiliate, capitalized the Advance Cleveland
Development Fund through the support of GCP-member
companies. The Fund will be used to invest in expanding
our waterfront and building downtown housing, which is
a very hot commodity. Since 1990, CDA has invested more
than $200 million in catalytic projects worth nearly $3
billion.
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Four levies, for which the GCP mobilized business
community support, were passed by the voters. Each
of them — Health and Human Services, Port Authority,
Cleveland Public Library and the Cleveland Metroparks —
is connected to our community’s well-being and economic
development. GCP coordinated fund-raising for the levies’
campaigns and helped communicate key messaging to
voters about the importance of all four ballot issues to
Greater Cleveland’s future.
The GCP led efforts to secure legislation in the Ohio
General Assembly that allowed Cuyahoga County to
place a “sin tax” extension on the May 2014 ballot.
Subsequent approval by voters provided funds to finance
major improvements and repairs on Cleveland’s three
professional sports facilities.
An historic Community Benefits Agreement memorandum
of understanding (MOU), promoting inclusion in City of
Cleveland construction projects, was signed by the city and
business, civic, labor, and trade organizations. The publicprivate agreement is focused on creating opportunities
for Clevelanders and Cleveland companies to directly
participate in the city’s economic success. In September,
10 public- and private-sector project owners added their
endorsement of the effort. The Commission on Economic
Inclusion, a program of the GCP, began working to ensure
implementation of the MOU’s directives.
The new Cleveland Convention Center opened with a highly
successful GCP Annual Meeting as its first public event.
Thanks to our members whose sponsorship support
resulted in our largest meeting of members to date.
The new facility allowed us to deliver the desired “wow”
factor and provided a visually impressive stage for our
discussion about waterfront development with Mayor
Frank Jackson and County Executive Ed FitzGerald.
The GCP Business Development Team’s outreach to the
region’s companies resulted in an estimated $171 million
capital investment. The team’s work also led to 1,366 jobs
retained and 1,334 jobs created.
With assistance of the GCP, the Cleveland Transformation
Alliance began its work to ensure fidelity to the Cleveland
Plan to improve public education outcomes in the City
of Cleveland. Our in-kind support includes providing
office and conference room space in the GCP offices,
IT services as well as promoting the “Right School,
Right Now” campaign through our marketing and
communications vehicles.
GCP augmented its support of the region’s middle-market
companies by providing additional programming and
resources. This includes offering middle-market events
that tackled topics impacting company growth such
as innovation, healthcare costs, and talent retention;
launching an online knowledge center with the latest
middle-market research, data, and best practices; and
providing customized business retention and expansion
assistance.
GCP continued to play a leadership role with regional
philanthropy and other metro chambers to design a more
comprehensive and effective economic development
system, known as the Regional Economic Competitive
Strategy (RECS). The system will coordinate region-wide
activities such as retention and expansion, early stage
start-ups and advocacy.
You can read more about these and other highlights
in this report. Clearly, there’s much to be proud of, but
the work continues. Our agenda includes:
• Helping determine the feasibility of
seeking to bring either the Democratic
or Republican national convention to
Cleveland in 2016;
• Maximizing the neighborhood
development component of Opportunity
Corridor, which can change significant
portions of Cleveland’s East Side; and
• Continuing to assist the Cleveland
Metropolitan School District (CMSD)
in establishment of advisory boards for
individual schools and providing input/
guidance on continuation and growth of
the Transformation Alliance.
We appreciate the leadership of our Board and the
support of our members, which makes the work that
we do possible.
We look forward to continuing our role as a catalyst,
participant, convener, or leader in the next chapter of
Cleveland’s 21st century transformation.
An investment by Medical Mutual provided support
for the strategic realignment of COSE, our small
business partner. As it observed its 40th anniversary,
COSE is well-positioned to take charge and fight for
small business rights throughout our region, the state
and across the nation.
Christopher M. Connor
Chairman, Greater Cleveland Partnership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
The Sherwin-Williams Company
Joseph D. Roman
President and CEO
Greater Cleveland Partnership
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Advocacy: Key
legislation advanced,
support helps pass
four levies
The Greater Cleveland Partnership’s Government Advocacy
Team, partners in the chamber and civic worlds, and with the
engagement of our members, helped advance key legislation in
Columbus and Washington and helped win voter approval of
four local levies. The year also featured two major celebrations
that attracted record-breaking attendance.
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ADVOCACY
Language in federal legislation ensures
support for the Great Lakes
Working with our colleagues in the Great Lakes Metro
Chambers Coalition, the GCP secured language in
federal legislation that recognizes the Great Lakes as
one entity rather than individual lakes and river. This is
advantageous for federal funding and in creating more
awareness of the region in terms of economic development
and commerce. These efforts will also produce important
funding for dredging in the Great Lakes, which is
important to the flow of maritime commerce. Legislation
is poised for approval in 2014.
Efforts secure New Markets Tax Credits for
catalytic development
GCP advocacy efforts resulted in Cleveland Development
Advisors being awarded a $30 million New Markets Tax
Credit Allocation. This allocation will be utilized for
catalytic development projects within Cuyahoga County.
GCP and other Ohio business groups back
Medicaid expansion proposal
The GCP joined other business organizations in
supporting Governor Kasich’s proposal to expand the
Medicaid program in Ohio, thereby bringing healthcare
coverage to thousands more Ohioans.
GCP takes lead in ensuring Turnpike revenues
stay in northern Ohio
The GCP led efforts to secure legislation that guarantees
that 90 percent of the revenue from the sale of bonds from
the Ohio Turnpike will stay in northern Ohio. This paved
the way for full funding of the Opportunity Corridor and
will benefit other transportation projects important to
Northeast Ohio.
GCP push in Columbus helps place “sin tax”
issue on county ballot
The GCP led efforts to secure legislation in the Ohio
General Assembly that allowed Cuyahoga County to place
a ballot measure before voters that extends the current
“sin tax” that supports maintenance of our major league
sports facilities.
Two celebrations attract record crowds
The 2013 Annual Meeting for Build Up Greater Cleveland
(BUGC) drew a record crowd of more than 200 GCP
members, elected officials and BUGC members. It
featured Congressman Bill Shuster, chairman of the
U.S. House Transportation Committee, as the keynote
speaker, and a presentation by Congressman Bob Gibbs,
Ohio’s only member on that committee.
The GCP also hosted the 50th annual Public Officials
Reception and Reunion that featured 13 honorees from
the past, including Governors Richard Celeste and George
Voinovich, former members of Congress, leaders from the
Ohio General Assembly, the City of Cleveland and Cuyahoga
County. By a significant margin, this was the best attended
Public Officials Reception in its 50-year history.
Four local levies pass with GCP support
Four local levies supported by the GCP were approved
by voters. The levies will provide funding for Cleveland
Metroparks, the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port
Authority, Cleveland Public Library, and Cuyahoga
County health and human services.
In November 2013, four local levies supported by GCP were approved by voters.
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Thirteen former elected officials participated in a panel discussion moderated by retired Plain Dealer columnist Brent Larkin to kick
off GCP’s 50th anniversary Public Officials Reunion and Reception: Former U.S. Senator and Governor George Voinovich; former
members of Congress David Hobson, Steve LaTourette, Mary Rose Oakar and Louis Stokes; former Governor Richard Celeste; former
Ohio Senate President Stanley Aronoff; former Ohio House Speaker Jo Ann Davidson; former Ohio Senate President Richard Finan;
former State Rep. and Cleveland Mayor Jane Campbell; former County Commissioner Timothy Hagan; former Cleveland City Council
President George Forbes; and former State Senator Patrick Sweeney.
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Economic Development:
Strong results drive
investment, create jobs
The organizations in the regional economic development system
that the Greater Cleveland Partnership helped create and continues
to support — BioEnterprise, JumpStart, MAGNET, NorTech and
Team NEO, and the Regional Marketing Alliance — along with GCP’s
Business Development Team — report strong results in 2013 as
evidenced by job creation and the attraction of new investment.
Early-stage companies in a variety of sectors experienced growth,
while several mature businesses completed expansion projects
totaling more than $197 million in capital investment.
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Business expansion, retention activities drive strong results
The Greater Cleveland Partnership Business
Development Team, in collaboration with its partners,
continued its award-winning activities from previous
years and ended 2013 with strong results. The team
successfully closed 16 retention and expansion
projects and developed a pipeline of 37 projects with
$252 million in capital investment for 2014.
In addition, GCP and its Northeast Ohio regional
economic development partners, the Greater Akron
Chamber, Stark Development Board, Team Lorain
County, and the Youngstown/Warren Regional
Chamber received top honors for excellence in
economic development marketing from the Ohio
Economic Development Association.
The group was honored for “COLLABOR18,” a strategic
marketing communication booklet representing local
economic development organizations in 18 counties of
Northeast Ohio for advancement of business retention
and expansion efforts.
more than
340
2,101
business calls
jobs created
> $197
million
2,747
jobs retained
in capital investment
16 retention and
expansion projects closed
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50
companies raised
money, up from 43 in 2012
361
jobs added by 51 companies
$19.7 million
more
million
than $200
in attracted capital
raised in equity
capital
BioEnterprise helps emerging medical
device, biotechnology, and healthcare
services companies grow. Services
include providing access to bioscience
venture capital and private equity firms.
Significant growth realized in biomedical
investment, jobs
BioEnterprise, a business formation, recruitment, and
acceleration initiative designed to grow healthcare
companies and commercialize bioscience technologies,
reports that Northeast Ohio biomedical companies raised
more than $200 million in equity capital last year. Those
results represent a strong performance, considering the
headwinds that health-related start-up companies face.
The number of local companies raising money rose
from 43 in 2012 to 50 in 2013, the highest number since
BioEnterprise began collecting data about a decade ago.
Jobs at Northeast Ohio biomedical companies were also
on the rise: 51 BioEnterprise client companies added 361
jobs in 2013. The largest amount of job growth came from
the Health IT and Services sector.
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Helped attract
7,300
direct new jobs
more than
300
positive
stories in national media
95%
growth in social media following
Nearly
40,000
residents engaged in-region
Cleveland Plus is Northeast Ohio’s first and only regional marketing
campaign, working to attract businesses, talent, tourism and positive
national media. The Cleveland Museum of Art’s stunning renovation and
expansion project garnered national press attention.
Helped generate almost
$320m
in new annual payroll
Regional marketing gains more positive
national press, social media impact
Launched in 2007, the Cleveland Plus campaign has played
a key role in attracting more than 7,300 direct new jobs
and nearly $320 million in new annual payroll to Northeast
Ohio. It has also helped place more than 300 positive stories
in target media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal,
The New York Times, the Financial Times, CNBC and
Forbes.com, enabling the region to fare better than its
Midwest competitive set in terms of coverage and tone.
Additionally, the campaign conducts a popular in-region
communications program; from 2012-2013 its social
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media following grew by 95 percent, with 80 percent of
its social media messages being shared. Nearly 40,000
residents engage with the campaign through its inregion program.
Cleveland Plus is the only regional campaign that
markets Northeast Ohio to attract, jobs, talent, and
positive national media coverage to the 18-county region.
The Regional Marketing Alliance oversees and operates
the day-to-day operations of the campaign.
JumpStart works with entrepreneurs leading
promising young ventures with high-growth
potential such as BoxCast, a portfolio company in
downtown Cleveland. Photo by Cassie Tabora.
1,478
jobs created/retained
$151 million
cumulative follow-on
capital raised
$270million
economic benefits
generated for Ohio
in payroll
Entrepreneurial firms
experience momentum-filled year
As the nonprofit venture development organization
JumpStart celebrates 10 years helping realize
entrepreneurial potential in Northeast Ohio, it is doing so
after a particularly momentum-filled year for its portfolio
and client companies.
Two firms — including the Beachwood-based online
insurance company Embrace Pet Insurance — had exits.
Three advanced materials companies — ABSMaterials,
Mesocoat and Catacel Corporation — opened new facilities
to better serve their customers and ramp up product
development and production, while five enterprises
received regulatory approval for their healthcare
technology, product or device.
In addition, JumpStart clients received attention from
national media outlets including Popular Mechanics,
Forbes, Good Housekeeping, Fast Company “Gizmodo,”
NBC’s “Today,” and ABC’s “Shark Tank.”
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
MAGNET’S PRISM program
helped Vitamix:
5,000 units a da
day
An increase in production
from 4,000 units a day
illio
on
$18 milli
in boosted sales
Create
40 jo
job
bs
by upping production from
4,000 to 5,000 units a day.
MAGNET (the Manufacturing Growth and Advocacy Network) combines
deep manufacturing expertise with a powerful network of regional assets.
MAGNET refocuses to help manufacturers
grow faster with less risk
MAGNET refocused its vision in 2013 to help Northeast
Ohio manufacturers more quickly achieve sustainable,
long-term growth. As an Ohio Manufacturing Extension
Partnership (MEP) provider, MAGNET is now combining
its deep manufacturing expertise with a powerful
network of regional assets ready and willing to help local
manufacturers grow through its PRISM (Partnership for
Regional Innovation Services to Manufacturers) initiative.
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PRISM partners include the NASA Glenn Research
Center, award-winning professors and researchers at the
area's colleges and university, the Port of Cleveland and
"America Makes," the National Additive Manufacturing
Innovation Institute in Youngstown.
The PRISM program helped North Olmsted-based Vitamix,
the industry leader making award-winning blending and
mixing products, increase sales by upping production.
In 2013, NorTech
cluster companies:
196
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6
jobs created
illio
on
$65.1 milli
illio
on
$12
12..8 milli
in attracted capital
in generated payroll
NorTech provides individuals, companies, and higher education and
research institutions with new opportunities for collaboration.
Capital attraction, job growth seen in
emerging industries
Leveraging its expertise in emerging industries, NorTech
provides companies of all sizes, higher education
and research institutions, and individuals of diverse
backgrounds with new opportunities for collaboration
that create jobs, attract capital and have a long-term
economic impact.
Aligned with Northeast Ohio’s strategic focus on emerging
industries, the organization performs a specific role in the
region’s innovation ecosystem by helping grow industries
not addressed by any other intermediaries: advanced
energy, flexible electronics and water technologies. NorTech
helps companies in these industries commercialize their
products and services faster.
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Team NEO and partners set new records
Team Northeast Ohio (Team NEO) is a regional,
private-sector organization that markets Northeast
Ohio to the world and collaborates with its partners
and others to attract new businesses and help those
that are here grow. It is the Northeast Ohio regional
partner for JobsOhio, a private, nonprofit corporation
that drives economic development and job creation for
the state.
In partnership with local economic development
organizations, JobsOhio and the State of Ohio, Team
NEO recruited a record 16 new companies to Northeast
Ohio in 2013. These new companies represent nearly
1,400 direct new jobs and more than $85 million in
new direct annual payroll, with an average payroll of
more than $62,000, which is also the highest in the
organization’s history.
As the JobsOhio regional partner, Team NEO supports the
retention and expansion work of its 18 county partners
by connecting them, and their client companies, with
both state and JobsOhio support as well as resources
across Northeast Ohio. In 2013, these collaborative
efforts resulted in 120 companies receiving assistance,
resulting in more than 20,400 jobs created or retained
and $1.37 billion in capital investment.
Business Attraction
2013 new company operations – 16
2007 – 2013 new company operations – 83
2013 new jobs – 1,400
2007 – 2013 new jobs – 7,300
2013 payroll - $85M
2007 – 2013 payroll - $320M
Business Development
2013 companies helped – 120
2011 – 2013 companies helped – 216
2013 jobs created and retained – 20,400
2011 – 2013 jobs created and retained – 59,000
2013 capital investment - $1.37B
2011 – 2013 capital investment – $3B
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Team NEO is a regional, private-sector organization that
collaborates with its partners and others to attract new
companies and help Northeast Ohio companies grow, such
as automotive-related businesses.
Physical Development:
New fund capitalized,
targeted investment
advances catalytic
projects
The Greater Cleveland Partnership uses its resources to support and
invest in catalytic real estate projects in the City of Cleveland. In 2013,
our real estate investment affiliate, Cleveland Development Advisors
(CDA), had a very successful year, completing the capitalization of its
$30 million Advance Cleveland Development Fund that will pursue
investments in real estate projects expected to promote job growth
and business expansion.
Target investment areas include waterfront development, the HealthTech Corridor, the Nine Twelve District and opportunities created by
the efforts of the Group Plan Commission. CDA was also awarded a
$30 million federal New Markets Tax Credit allocation, which was
fully deployed by year end, enabling five transformative projects to
break ground.
To date, CDA has provided financing to more than 100 catalytic
projects throughout Cleveland, investing $235 million that has
created more than $2.5 billion in total development.
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PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
Significant progress was made in 2013 on projects championed
by the GCP.
Convention Center and Global Center for
Health Innovation open doors
The $465 million Cleveland Convention Center and Global
Center for Health Innovation opened its doors to the public
after more than two years of construction and several more
of discussion and debate. Billed as the first showplace for
medical equipment and technology, the Global Center features
over 100,000 square feet of permanent showrooms for many of
the nation’s healthcare leaders.
The new complex is directly connected to the completely rebuilt
Convention Center, which features more than 235,000 square
feet of exhibition and meeting space underneath nearly 11
acres of renovated public green space in the heart of downtown.
George V. Voinovich Bridge opens to traffic
After two-and-a-half years of construction, the $293 million
George V. Voinovich Innerbelt Bridge – opened to both
eastbound and westbound traffic in November 2013. The nearly
mile-long, 115-foot-high span is the first of two planned bridges
that will replace the 54-year-old crossing over the Cuyahoga
River south of downtown Cleveland.
Work will continue in 2014, as the original bridge is demolished
before a second new bridge is constructed in its footprint.
When the dust finally settles in 2016, the first bridge will carry
only westbound traffic with eastbound traffic shifted to the
second bridge. More than 140,000 travelers a day cross the
Cuyahoga valley on this critical artery.
Opportunity Corridor on the fast track
The Opportunity Corridor transportation and economic
development project went from conceptual to the brink
of reality in 2013. In September, the Ohio Turnpike and
Infrastructure Commission approved the allocation of $39
million toward the first phase of the project and is expected to
award an additional $176 million available for the final phase
in 2017. The state funding is in addition to commitments
from the City of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Northeast Ohio
Areawide Coordinating Agency and private sector resources
for the $331 million project.
The Opportunity Corridor will provide direct connectivity to
several of Cleveland’s most historic neighborhoods including
Slavic Village, Central, Buckeye, Kinsman and Fairfax – and
provide accessibility to nearly 400 acres of vacant and
underutilized land in the core city. In addition, the threemile boulevard will provide direct access to the world-class
educational, cultural, and healthcare institutions in University
Circle – our community’s fastest-growing employment center.
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The GCP will continue to work with all of its public, private,
philanthropic and community stakeholders to advance
economic and community development activities in our city
and its neighborhoods.
Redevelopment momentum continues
in the Nine Twelve District
The efforts to revitalize the Nine Twelve District received a
huge boost from new projects currently underway. In 2013,
CDA provided financing for the conversion of the vacant East
Ohio Gas office building into 223 apartments and first-floor retail.
In addition, Geis Companies is redeveloping the Ameritrust
Tower historic Rotunda and Swetland Building, which have
been vacant for more than 20 years. CDA is one of several
sources of financing expected to close in early 2014 for the
mixed-use development that will result in the redeployment of
780,000 square feet of space, including Heinen’s, downtown
Cleveland’s first full-service grocery store.
Cleveland neighborhoods benefit
from transformational projects
CDA invested in three projects in 2013 that highlight GCP’s
commitment to strategic neighborhood investment. The
historic renovation of the Fairmont Creamery in the Tremont
neighborhood will create 30 apartment units as well as
LaunchHouse, a successful Cleveland business accelerator,
and other commercial space.
In the Buckeye neighborhood, the third and final phase of the
St. Luke Hospital redevelopment is creating a campus that
includes impact-driven organizations such as Breakthrough
Schools’ Intergenerational School, Boys and Girls Club of
Cleveland, Centers for Families and Children, St. Luke’s
Foundation and Cleveland Neighborhood Progress. CDA also
provided financing to complete the second phase of Steelyard
Commons, which will provide more job opportunities and
access to goods and service for Cleveland residents.
Flats East Bank first phase completed
With the successful completion and opening of the first phase
of Flats East Bank, including the Ernst & Young Office Tower,
Aloft Hotel, and several restaurants in 2013, the developer is
poised to begin the second phase in early 2014.
The addition of 243 apartments, waterfront entertainment and
additional retail and dining venues will move the project toward
the original Wolstein family vision of a vibrant waterfront
neighborhood. CDA and GCP are proud to play a role in
financing both phases of this project that will serve as a catalyst
for additional waterfront development in Cleveland.
Cleveland Development Advisors
(CDA), GCP’s real estate and business
development finance affiliate, helped
finance Phase One of the Flats East
Bank project, which opened in 2013.
CDA also invested in the St. Luke
Hospital redevelopment project that’s
creating an education and community
and economic development campus in
Cleveland’s Buckeye neighborhood.
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Economic Inclusion:
Focus on member
engagement, advancing
community benefits
agreement
In 2013, the Commission on Economic Inclusion, a program of the
Greater Cleveland Partnership, concentrated its efforts to engage
and support decision-makers within its member organizations who
can drive diverse and inclusive change within their organizations.
Programs, data and resources were developed and delivered to key
leaders through a variety of channels.
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ECONOMIC INCLUSION
Hall of Fame CEOs host
small-group discussions
Three CEOs of the Commission’s Hall of Fame
member companies hosted lunches featuring smallgroup discussions about leading successful diverse
organizations with CEOs from both current and
prospective Commission members. The 2013 Hall of Fame
lunches were hosted by Alexander Cutler, chairman and
CEO, Eaton; Sandra Pianalto, president and CEO, Federal
Reserve Bank of Cleveland; and Beth Mooney, chairman
and CEO, KeyCorp.
Forum for C-suite executives focuses on
building diverse senior management pipeline
The fifth Senior Executive Forum, “How to Build
a Diverse Senior Management Pipeline: Examples
of Success” was held in November and attended by
80 C-level executives from Commission-member
organizations. Dr. Janet Reid, co-founder of Global
Novations, a leading diversity management consulting
firm, served as the keynote speaker and facilitated a
panel of executives from Best-in-Class Commission
organizations Eaton, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer
District and Thompson Hine.
Programming supports diversity
professionals, procurement officers
The fifth annual full-day Diversity Professionals
conference, “Inclusion as a Competitive Edge,” was
attended by 250 diversity and human resource
professionals and featured Dr. Rohini Anand, senior vice
president and global chief diversity officer at Sodexho,
as the keynote speaker. Sodexho was named No. 1 on
DiversityInc's 2013 Top 50 Companies for Diversity list.
Other presenters included speakers from two other
Top 50 companies, Kraft Foods and KPMG and
nationally recognized experts Shirley Engelmeier,
CEO, InclusionInc, and Cindy Burrell, CEO, Diversity
in Boardrooms. Cleveland State University Diversity
Management Program faculty led a special all-day track,
”Culturally Competent Leaders are Change Agents.”
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Quarterly meetings of the Chief Procurement Officers
Group were held to support members’ supplier diversity
goals. In 2013, to accommodate the unique supplier
diversity challenges facing different industry segments,
the CPO group met quarterly in five smaller clusters:
Corporate, Healthcare, Higher Education, Finance,
and Government. In addition, subject-matter expert
presenters from Cincinnati USA Chamber of Commerce
Minority Business Accelerator and Northern Minority
Supplier Development Council shared best practices.
New speaker series on diversity
launched for business leaders
"Dialogues on Diversity," jointly sponsored by the
Commission and the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar
Association, was launched to engage area leaders
from the legal and corporate community in important
discussions around effective strategies to promote and
improve diversity and inclusion within area businesses,
firms, organizations and the public sector. The first
two presenters were PNC Regional President Paul Clark
and Marcus Glover, senior vice president and general
manager, Horseshoe Casino Cleveland.
DiversityInc partnership
promotes national visibility
A formal partnership with DiversityInc, a nationally
recognized consulting and benchmarking company,
provided national visibility for the Commission and
Northeast Ohio’s successes in diversity and inclusion
and benefits for our membership including features
in both the print and online DiversityInc magazine
and e-newsletters. In addition, Commission members
received subscriptions and discounted tickets to
selected DiversityInc events.
Historic MOU signing serves corporate
members and minority businesses
Significant progress was made in 2013 to implement the
parameters of the MOU. Action steps include:
Working through the Commission on Economic Inclusion,
the Greater Cleveland Partnership played a significant
role within the public-private partnership that created the
memorandum of understanding (MOU) on construction
community benefits agreements. The MOU was signed
in February by the City of Cleveland, organized labor, the
business community, local contractors and organizations
to help drive investment in Cleveland to create direct
benefits for local residents and businesses.
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Establishing a Construction Diversity and Inclusion
Committee, chaired by Natoya Walker Minor, chief of
public affairs, City of Cleveland, and Anthony Panzica,
president and CEO, Panzica Construction Company.
The committee and subcommittees incorporate more
than 70 representatives from the business community,
project owners, unions, contractors, schools, training
organizations, black, Hispanic and women-focused
community groups and the City of Cleveland;
In September, 10 public and private project owners
endorsed the MOU expressing the intent of each
organization to make community benefits a priority in
planning and developing projects totaling $5 billion:
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Convening the Cleveland Metropolitan School District
Construction Employers Association and unions to
develop an operating agreement leading to curriculum
for school-to-apprenticeship by 2014;
Case Western Reserve University
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Launching a workforce demand study which will
project actual demand of construction and skilled
trade related labor over the next five to seven years.
This forms the basis for training of local and minority
workers by several collaborators.
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Building partnerships between training organizations
and organized labor to ensure a plan for meeting
workforce needs “inclusively.”
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland Metropolitan School District
Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority
Dominion East Ohio
Geis Companies
The Medical Center Company
The MetroHealth System
Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District
University Hospitals
Project owners who endorsed the Memorandum of Understanding
included (left to right): Julius Ciaccia, Northeast Regional Sewer
District; Dr. Ed Hills, The MetroHealth System; Fred Geis, Geis
Companies; and Steven Standley, University Hospitals. (Photo by
Cleveland City Hall photography).
A memorandum of understanding on construction community
benefits agreements was signed in February 2013 by the City of
Cleveland, organized labor, the business community, local
contractors and organizations.
Left to right: Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, Anthony Panzica,
president, Panzica Construction and co-chair of the Commission’s
Construction Diversity & Inclusion Committee; and José Feliciano,
GCP Board and Commission Advisory Board member. (Photo by
Cleveland City Hall photography)
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ECONOMIC INCLUSION
Members recognized for accomplishments and progress
In 2013, the Commission presented its annual Best-in-Class and Hall of Fame awards at the GCP Annual Meeting
for the first time as part of a year-long focus on increasing CEO engagement in the Commission’s diversity and
inclusion initiatives. These awards are a reflection of what leadership commitment can yield.
Selection for these awards is based on quantitative and qualitative information drawn from the Commission’s
annual Employers Survey on Diversity™ and additional sources. Joining four past Hall of Fame inductees, Eaton
(senior management diversity), Kaiser Permanente (board diversity), KeyCorp (board and supplier diversity), and
Time Warner Cable (workforce diversity), the 2013 inductees were:
Board Diversity
University Hospitals
Workforce Diversity
Case Western Reserve University and U.S. Bank, Northeast Ohio
Supplier Diversity
Eaton and Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Best in Class winners were named in three categories:
nonprofit/government, large corporation and middle market:
Board Diversity
University Hospitals, Eaton and Lifebanc
Senior Management Diversity
Cleveland State University, KeyCorp,
and Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District
Workforce Diversity
Case Western Reserve University, U.S. Bank, Northeast Ohio,
and YMCA of Greater Cleveland
Supplier Diversity
Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority, Eaton,
and Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
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The Commission on Economic Inclusion’s Best-in-Class
winners and Hall of Fame inductees were honored at the
GCP Annual Meeting. Accepting the awards:
Left to right: Alexander Cutler, chairman and CEO, Eaton; Thomas Zenty III, chief executive officer, University
Hospitals; Gordon Bowen, chief executive officer, Lifebanc; Beth Mooney, chairman and CEO, KeyCorp; Ronald
Berkman, president, Cleveland State University; Julius Ciaccia, executive director, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer
District; Barbara Snyder, president, Case Western Reserve University; Alan Zang, president, U.S. Bank, Northeast
Ohio; Glen Haley, president and chief executive officer, YMCA of Greater Cleveland; Jeffrey Patterson, chief executive
officer, Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority; and Gregory Stefani, chief operating officer, Federal Reserve Bank
of Cleveland.
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Education Reform:
Efforts aim to
transform schools,
improve outcomes
In 2013, the Greater Cleveland Partnership continued to support
education as one of its strategic priorities. Our involvement
included input into career-based curriculum development,
helping the Transformation Alliance mobilize to implement
provisions of the Cleveland Plan to reform public education
in Cleveland, and advocacy efforts to preserve key education
legislation.
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EDUCATION REFORM
“Take it to the MAX!”
GCP continued to work with and support the Friends
of Max Hayes, the recently-formed advisory board for
the Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s (CMSD)
Max S. Hayes High School, which prepares high
school students to work in 21st century trades and
high-tech career options or to continue on to college.
GCP has provided financial support to further the
implementation of the “Take it to the MAX!” plan, which
seeks to further attune the Max Hayes curriculum
and learning environment to the latest cutting edge
developments in the career and technical education
space.
The Max Hayes learning environment will take a
significant step forward with the planned opening
of the new, state of the art Max S. Hayes High School
building in 2015. GCP also actively participates with
the school through its seat on Friends of Max Hayes,
which works to connect Max Hayes partners and
supporters with the activities and transformation of
the school.
GCP recognized for impact
on K-12 education
Also last year, GCP was honored to be recognized twice
for its impact on K-12 education in the City of Cleveland.
In May, GCP was honored by the Positive Education
Program (PEP) for its work on the Cleveland Plan,
including participating in the community coalition
that drafted the plan and leading the advocacy for
the implementing legislation passed by the Ohio
legislature, as well as GCP’s enthusiastic fund-raising
support of Issue 107, the successful November 2012 16
mill CMSD levy that was passed by over 57 percent of
Cleveland voters.
Later, GCP was recognized by CMSD as a “Five Star
General” at CMSD’s sixth annual “Army of Believers”
luncheon in August. GCP was honored for “outstanding
commitment to the pursuit of excellence and academic
achievement for the students of the CMSD.” GCP shares
these awards with its members whose support is vital
to successful efforts to improve educational outcomes
for the children of Cleveland.
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GCP helps Transformation
Alliance advance agenda
In late summer, the Cleveland Transformation Alliance,
which was created through the Cleveland Plan and its
board members appointed by Cleveland Mayor Frank
Jackson, hired full-time Executive Director Megan
O’Bryan and began operating out of the GCP offices.
Under the Cleveland Plan, the Transformation Alliance
is charged with ensuring fidelity to the Plan, assessing
the quality of all Cleveland public schools (district
and charter), communicating to parents about quality
school choices and monitoring charter sector quality
and growth in Cleveland.
GCP provided in-kind support including office
and conference room space in the GCP offices
and IT services. Additionally, GCP supported the
Transformation Alliance’s initial school choice
marketing campaign, “Right School, Right Now”
by highlighting the campaign in our electronic
communications and making Transformation Alliance
information on the quality of all public schools in each
Cleveland neighborhood available to our members and
other visitors to the GCP offices.
GCP joins business community efforts
to preserve Common Core standards
In November, GCP joined the Ohio Business Roundtable
and the larger business community in opposition to Ohio
House Bill 237, which is anti-Common Core legislation
sponsored by State Representative Andy Thompson
(R-Marietta). The Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
Initiative, led by the National Governors Association
Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief
State School Officers, has produced K–12 standards in
the foundational subjects of math and English that
meet the business community’s expectations: they are
college- and career-ready, grounded in evidence and
internationally benchmarked.
The state-led effort has established a single set of
clear educational standards for grades K-12 in English
language arts and mathematics that states voluntarily
adopt. Ohio adopted the standards in 2010 and is
scheduled for full implementation in the 2014-2015
school year. The standards are clearly designed to
ensure that students graduating from high school are
prepared to enter college and/or the workforce with the
reading, writing, speaking and listening, language
and mathematics skills they need to be successful.
Unfortunately, Common Core remains under attack
in the Ohio legislature by a small, but vocal, minority.
Those opposed to the Common Core often claim that it
is a federally-led “takeover” of school curriculum, will
cause some states to “dumb down” standards already
in place and that Common Core will expose the private
data of children to the federal government. None of
these myths are true.
In advance of a hearing in November, GCP submitted
a letter to the House Education Committee in support
of Common Core urging tabling HB 237 because it
will undo important progress that has been made to
improve education. Cleveland was among the first
Common Core pilot locations in the nation and we know
the impact these meaningful standards can have in
our classroom. GCP will continue to advocate with the
Northeast Ohio delegation in support of Common Core.
GCP’s early support of STEM education
paves way for third high school campus
GCP and its members continue to support STEM
(science, technology, engineering and math) education
within the CMSD. Based on the groundwork laid by GCP
and its members several years ago to secure funding for
the first two campuses of the MC2 STEM High School
at GE Nela Park and the Great Lakes Science Center,
CMSD was able to open its third MC2 STEM campus on
the campus of Cleveland State University (CSU).
KeyBank Foundation contributed $1.25 million to
renovate space at CSU for the school on two floors
of Rhodes Tower. The space includes renovated
classrooms and a state-of-the-art fabrication laboratory
(or “fab lab”) that uses laser-powered technology. GCP
members KeyBank and CSU continue to ensure that
STEM education is a priority in the Cleveland schools.
Education reform in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) continued to be a GCP strategic priority in 2013.
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Membership:
GCP involvement
builds connections,
strengthens the bottom
line
Greater Cleveland Partnership Investor members are connected
to a broad spectrum of the Northeast Ohio business community
and a wide range of business development resources, benefits
and opportunities to influence the private sector’s economic
development agenda.
Middle-market programming expands
Our second Greater Cleveland Middle Market
Forum, held at the Wyndham Cleveland at
PlayhouseSquare, attracted more than 250 middlemarket business representatives for a half-day
discussion and conversations with leading midmarket CEOs, and sessions on topics that explored
the factors that contribute to growing a successful
middle-market company.
The forum included a one-on-one discussion with
GCP Board member Jodi Berg, president and CEO
of Vitamix moderated by GCP Middle-Market
Committee Chair Darin Haines, MCPc’s chief
technology officer; a keynote address by Cleveland
Browns owner Jimmy Haslam, CEO of Pilot Flying J;
and the latest middle-market research presented by
Dr. Anil Makjiha, academic director of the National
Center for the Middle Market (NCMM).
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We also expanded our middle-market programming
with three additional forums on topics of importance
to mid-market executives: healthcare reform,
innovation, and talent attraction and retention
presented in collaboration with our strategic partner,
the NCCM, and our middle-market sponsors Alliance
Solutions Group, Medical Mutual and Plante Moran.
New website launched, member
e-newsletter redesigned
In 2013, we launched our new website and a new
look for our Every Monday e-newsletter. The website
redesign included more up-to-date news on the home
page; home page links to the expanded content
of Every Monday; easier access to our events and
videos; more prominent recognition of our lead
Investor members; higher visibility of our business
development resources; and prominent placement of
our Twitter feeds.
Members connect through
events and programs
strategy events for senior executives, diversity and HR
professionals, and chief procurement officers.
GCP events and programs build connections for our
members to other business community and thought
leaders and provide access to first-hand knowledge
about economic development issues that impact the
business climate in our city, region and state.
Education provided on key ballot issues
Special events offered in 2013 included the 50th
Anniversary Public Officials Reception that featured
13 honorees from the past, including Governors Celeste
and Voinovich, former Members of Congress, leaders
from the Ohio General Assembly, the City of Cleveland
and Cuyahoga County; the GCP Morning Conversation
series, an informal, off-the-record discussion with
elected officials and key editors and columnists; GCP
Chairman’s Briefing with updates from GCP Board
and staff leadership; and diversity management
With an unprecedented four levies—Port of Cleveland,
Cleveland Public Library, Cuyahoga County Health
and Human Services, and the Cleveland Metroparks—
on the November 2013 ballot, all supported by GCP,
we provided a three-month campaign to educate our
members about the importance of passing all of them.
Information provided included individual web
pages on each levy on the GCP website with links
to e-marketing materials, fact sheets, FAQs and
videos, as well as links to each campaign’s website.
As noted on Page 6 in the Advocacy of this report,
all levies passed!
Faculty from The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business led breakout sessions at the 2013 Greater Cleveland Middle-Market Forum
(left to right): Jill Ellingson; Gretchen Goffe, Thomas Goldsby and Oded Shenkar.
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COSE:
Empowering small
business success
COSE, one of Ohio’s largest small business support organizations,
is committed to empowering small business success through a
series of programs, services, events, and resources that support
entrepreneurs, their businesses, and their employees. COSE helps
small businesses achieve their idea of success in order to build richer,
more vibrant communities that improve the economic climate and
enhance quality of life.
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COSE
Convention collaboration creates largest
gathering of small businesses in Midwest
Leading role in healthcare
reform education for small business
Small businesses across Ohio and western Pennsylvania
enjoyed two days of education and networking among
some 900 attendees at the 2013 Small Business Convention
at Kalahari Resorts in Sandusky. Thirty-seven chambers
of commerce and small business support organizations
collaborated with COSE to plan and produce every aspect of
the convention.
COSE continued its legacy of guiding small businesses
through the often choppy waters of the health insurance
marketplace. COSE held 11 Health Care Reform
Education Sessions, with more than 400 attendees
that gave small business owners the information they
needed to make educated decisions as implementation
of the Affordable Care Act commenced.
The convention kicked off with the 2013 COSE Business
Pitch Competition finale. More than 80 aspiring
entrepreneurs from across Ohio got invaluable
feedback on their business ideas from a panel of
small business owners and experts over two rounds
of judging. The final four participants made live final
pitches to a panel of judges that included Jeff Hoffman,
founder in the Priceline.com Family of Companies. The
finalists shared $40,000 in prize money.
COSE worked with its chamber affiliate partners
across Northeast Ohio to reach small businesses with
its healthcare reform expertise, as well as chambers
involved in the delivery of health insurance and
benefit solutions across the United States. COSE
took a leadership role in convening chamber leaders
supporting more than 200,000 small businesses to
share strategies and best practices in a Health Care
Reform Summit for 39 chambers through their trade
organization, the American Chamber of Commerce
Executives (ACCE).
Energy efficiency efforts for small business
take global stage
Small businesses continued to benefit from COSE’s lead
role in energy efficiency education. COSE secured a
three-year, $1.5 million grant from Dominion East Ohio
to provide no–cost energy assessments. In the first nine
months of the program, 250 small businesses across
Ohio received free energy assessments through the
COSE/Dominion Program and many are considering
or have taken action on improvements and projects to
increase the energy efficiency of their business.
COSE’s work on energy efficiency for small businesses
received national acclaim when highlighted as one
of the country’s top ten chamber energy efficiency
initiatives in the Local Chambers as Change Agents:
Creating Economic Vitality through Clean Energy and
Innovation report from the Chambers for Innovation
and Clean Energy (CICE). COSE energy leadership was
also invited to present on their work at the International
Chambers of Commerce’s World Chambers Federation
eighth World Chambers Congress in Doha, Qatar.
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“Year of Small Biz” highlights
local chamber partnerships
More than 24,000 Northeast Ohio small businesses
are benefitting from collaboration between COSE
and local chambers of commerce. In 2013, the Year
of the Small Biz campaign saw COSE partner with
15 local chambers of commerce and 23 different
cities to engage with and recognize more than 400
local small business owners for their work and their
contributions to their communities.
Peer-to-peer connections in the IT industry
NEOSA, the Northeast Ohio Software Association,
continued its work supporting the region’s IT
industry members by producing content and creating
opportunities centered on growth, raising the profile
of the industry and working to support the talent
ecosystem. NEOSA events and communication efforts
resulted in 2,200 event attendees, 3,500 podcast
downloads and 80 college interns placed. NEOSA also
awarded $11,000 in scholarships through the Cool Tech
Challenge competition.
Innovative new resources for small business
owners and aspiring entrepreneurs
Small businesses began to see new opportunities
develop at COSE stemming from our extended
conversations with members over the last few years.
Busy small business professionals now have a better
way to connect with each other through COSE with
the roll-out of the web portal called Linktunity. At
Linktunity.com, small businesses can connect with
their peers to learn, grow and generate new business
opportunities.
Aspiring entrepreneurs and those who have recently
started a new business will be the beneficiaries of a new
program at COSE called incFuse. This new offering for
start-up and early-stage businesses provides the needed
connections to a large network of business resources,
support organizations and experts – all through one
web location. Providing the connectivity and guidance
to the right source of support will accelerate the path to
success for these new entrepreneurs.
Advocacy efforts connect small
businesses with legislators
To ensure that their voices are heard, COSE continued
to connect small businesses directly to their legislators
through their annual COSE Day at the Capitol and
Washington Presentation events, as well as through
legislator visits to small businesses in local communities
that were coordinated with our chamber partners in
those areas.
Serving as the voice of our small business members on
important legislative issues, COSE also supported Ohio
House Bill 5 which promotes uniformity and simplicity
within Ohio’s municipal income tax structure and
reduces the reporting burden on small businesses.
COSE was a key supporter and collaborator with Lt.
Governor Mary Taylor’s Common Sense Initiative (CSI),
which works to ensure that all current and future state
rules and regulations are fair and equitable and do not
cause undue burdens on businesses, fostering economic
development and growth in Ohio.
COSE’s energy team provided an energy assessment for
Plantscaping and Blooms, a Cleveland family-owned
company now in its 35th year.
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2013 Board
of Directors
VICE CHAIR
Beth E. Mooney
Chairman & CEO
KeyCorp
TREASURER
Robert C. Smith
President & CEO
Spero-SmithInvestmentAdvisers,Inc.
Brent D. Ballard
Managing Partner
Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP
Jeanne Halladay Coughlin
President
The Coughlin Group, Inc.
James M. Free*
Director
NASA Glenn Research Center
Joe Banner
Chief Executive Officer
Cleveland Browns
Allen L. Crowley, Jr., AIC
Partner
COR Services
Lyle G. Ganske
Partner-in-charge,
Midwest Region
Jones Day
Jodi L. Berg
President
Vitamix Corporation
Alexander M. Cutler
Chairman and CEO
Eaton
Ronald M. Berkman, Ph.D.
President
Cleveland State University
Jenniffer D. Deckard
Chief Executive Officer
Fairmount Minerals Ltd.
Isaac C. Brooks Jr.
Managing Director
The PARTNERSHIP
James M. Dickey
Managing Director, Cleveland Office
Accenture
Scott Chaikin
Chairman and CEO
Dix & Eaton
Paul J. Dolan
Chairman and CEO
Cleveland Indians Baseball Co., LP
Sharlene Ramos Chesnes
Board Chair and
Executive Vice President
InterChez Logistics Systems, Inc.
Terrance C.Z. Egger
Publisher and President
The Plain Dealer Publishing Company
CHAIR
Christopher M. Connor
Chairman & CEO
The Sherwin-Williams Company
DIRECTORS
Richard Chiricosta
President and CEO
Medical Mutual of Ohio
William F. Christopher
President and CEO
Lakeview Consulting Enterprises
Paul Clark
Regional President
PNC Bank, Northern Ohio
Lonnie Coleman
Chairman, Owner and President
Coleman Spohn Corporation
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Roxanne Kaufman Elliot
Founder and President
ProLaureate
José C. Feliciano
Chairman
Hispanic Roundtable of Cleveland
John J. Ferchill
Chairman and CEO
The Ferchill Group
Darrin W. Fleming
Managing Director
Stratavant
Eduardo Gonzalez
President
Ferrous Metal Processing Co.
Adam A. Grzybicki
President
AT&T Ohio
James L. Hambrick
Chairman, President and CEO
The Lubrizol Corporation
Maia Hansen
Managing Director, Cleveland Office
McKinsey & Company
Frank Higgins
President and CEO
Nestle USA
Prepared Foods Company
Richard J. Hipple
Chairman, President and CEO
Materion
James D. Ireland III
Managing Partner
Capital One Partners LLC
Alex Johnson**
President
Cuyahoga Community College
Elizabeth B. Juliano
President
Litigation Management, Inc.
Sister Judith Ann Karam, CSA**
Congregational Leader
The Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine
Frederick R. Nance
Regional Managing Partner
Squire Sanders (US) LLP
Samuel A. Steinhouse
President
SPS Partners LLC
Jerry Kelsheimer
President and CEO
Fifth Third Bank, Northeastern Ohio
Stephen D. Newlin
Chairman, President and CEO
PolyOne Corporation
Frank C. Sullivan
Chairman and CEO
RPM International, Inc.
R. Steven Kestner
Executive Partner
BakerHostetler
Donald A. Nolan
President
Avery Dennison Materials Group
Maryrose T. Sylvester
President and CEO
GE Lighting
Len Komoroski
President
Cavaliers/Quicken Loans Arena
Ashley Basile Oeken**
Executive Director
Engage! Cleveland
Eddie Taylor Jr.
President
Taylor Oswald
Evan M. Koppel
Regional Sales Director
United Airlines
Rear Admiral Fred Midgette*
District Commander
Ninth Coast Guard District
C. Lee Thomas
Managing Partner, Cleveland Office
Ernst & Young LLP
Daryl Z. Laisure
President and CEO
ZIN Technologies, Inc.
Sandra Pianalto**
President and CEO
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Sharon L. Toerek
Partner
Licata and Toerek
Lisa Logan
Vice President
Logan Clutch Corporation
Charles A. Ratner
Chairman of the Board
Forest City Enterprises, Inc.
Daniel P. Walsh
President, Cleveland Region
Huntington National Bank
Joe Lopez
President and CEO
Aster Elements, Inc.
Deborah Z. Read
Managing Partner
Thompson Hine LLP
Zev Weiss
Chairman and CEO
American Greetings Corporation
Christopher Mapes
Chairman, President and CEO
Lincoln Electric
Gwenay S. Reaze-Coniglio
President
The Coniglio Group
Steven J. Williams
President and CEO
Elsons International
Bonnie Matthew
Founder and President
Food for Thought Catering
Tim Reynolds
President
Tribute, Inc.
Alan M. Zang
President
U.S. Bank, Northeast Ohio
Scott C. Miller
Vice President & General Manager
Dominion East Ohio
Walter M. Rosebrough, Jr.
President and CEO
STERIS Corporation
Thomas F. Zenty III
Chief Executive Officer
University Hospitals
Bernard Moreno
President
The Collection Auto Group
Deborah Rutledge
Chief Operating Officer
The Rutledge Group
GCP Directors as of December 31, 2013.
Scott Mueller
CEO
Dealer Tire
Rion Safier
Owner
Rion Safier Accounting LLC
Tim D. Myers
President
Alcoa Wheel and
Transportation Products
Barbara R. Snyder
President
Case Western Reserve University
* Federal Installation Liaison
** Other Non-Voting Member
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Looking Ahead
As the Greater Cleveland Partnership enters its 10th year, we
look forward to continuing collaboration with our partners in the
private and public sectors to build on the work we’ve done so far.
Our organization’s initial focus was on “turning the corner,”
and it has, indeed, been turned. The positive results are visible
and measurable.
Our agenda is full, but we are prepared to take on the catalytic
issues and initiatives that must be advanced to support and
grow the economies of our city and region.
1240 Huron Road E., Suite 300
Cleveland, OH 44115
216.621.3300
gcpartnership.com
GCP Staff Leadership
Joe Roman
President and CEO
Greater Cleveland Partnership
Steve Millard
President & Executive Director
COSE
Yvette Ittu
Executive Vice President of
Finance & Operations
Greater Cleveland Partnership
Carol Caruso
Senior Vice President, Advocacy
Greater Cleveland Partnership
Deb Janik
Senior Vice President, Real Estate
and Business Development
Greater Cleveland Partnership
Shana Marbury, Esq.
General Counsel
Vice President, Strategic
Initiatives & Research
Greater Cleveland Partnership
Robert Recker
Senior Vice President, Marketing,
Communications and
Membership Development
Greater Cleveland Partnership
Brian Hall
Executive Director
Commission on Economic Inclusion
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Suite 300
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
216.621.3300
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ECONOMIC RENAISSANCE
LAKEFRONT PLAN
EDUCATION REFORM
NASA
A GLENN
OPPORTUNITY CORRIDOR
MIDDLE-MARKET INITIATIVE
GAME-CHANGING STRATEGIC PRIORITIES
JOB CREATION
REGIONAL PROSPERITY