Deborah Yue
Deborah Yue founded the Law Office of Deborah Yue LLC in 2018 and concentrates her practice on insurance, business and general liability litigation. She has extensive experience representing businesses, insurance companies, and individuals in a wide variety of civil litigation and appeals, including lawsuits arising out of personal injury and property claims. She also counsels
Drew Purcell
Drew Purcell is a Business Leader at Progressive Insurance, where he has served in a Corporate Development role since 2019. Drew works to identify suitable investment and acquisition targets, as well as oversees an array of distributed product relationships. His 15-year Progressive career includes P&L responsibility for a number of states in the personal auto
Eric Fiala
Eric Fiala is Head of Corporate Responsibility at KeyBank. In his role, Eric oversees community engagement, environmental, social and governance (ESG) teams, philanthropy and Community Reinvestment Act teams. Eric joined Key in 2002 and has held roles of increasing responsibility in Corporate Finance, Analytics, and Corporate Responsibility. This included serving as Consumer Bank Finance Director
Gerrick Doss
Mr. Gerrick Doss spent more than 25 years with General Motors and General Motors Financial Services. He began his career with GM as a co-op student working a semester and going to school a semester while achieving his undergraduate degree. He held positions in materials management, sales, marketing, and financial services. His career culminated with
Jean-Claude Kihn
Jean-Claude Kihn is a retired executive of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. During his thirty-year career at Goodyear, he lived and worked in six countries and on four continents. He led various businesses but his passion was and is innovation. He now mentors young entrepreneurs. Jean-Claude served as President of Goodyear’s Europe, Middle East
J. Michael Oakes, PhD
Recently named Case Western Reserve University’s inaugural senior vice president for research and technology management, Dr. Oakes oversees all aspects of Case Western Reserve University’s $400m research enterprise and technology transfer program. He is the Veale Professor of Technology Transfer and Commercialization and Professor of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences in the School of Medicine.
Kipum Lee
Kip Lee is a designer and healthcare executive at UH Ventures, the innovation and commercialization arm of University Hospitals. He manages an innovation portfolio that supports University Hospitals’ strategic initiatives and partnerships through product innovation and human-centered design. In this “living lab” model, the most promising opportunities are cultivated and positioned for system-wide adoption, commercialization
Larry Fulton
Larry Fulton is an equity investor who purchases and takes an active position within his portfolio of small businesses. He presently owns three companies; LEFCO Worthington, a wood products manufacturer; HanlonComposites, a custom fiberglass fabricator; and Cleveland PPE, a producer of face masks. He sits on the board of JumpStart, MAGNET, and the Advisory Committee
Mark Samolczyk
Mark Samolczyk is the President of the Stark Community Foundation. In that role, he serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation, the primary representative of the Foundation in the community and the leader in achieving the Foundation’s Vision and Mission. Mark has served with the Foundation since October of 2009. Mark started his
Sharon Toerek
Sharon Toerek is Principal of Toerek Law, a national intellectual property and marketing law firm based in Cleveland, Ohio, and focused on helping professionals in the advertising, marketing, and creative services industries protect and monetize their intellectual capital, and manage the legal implications of their marketing and advertising work. Toerek is also the Publisher of