Board of Directors + Advisory Council

Team NEO is a joint venture of larger regional chambers of Northeast Ohio

• Greater Akron Chamber
• The Greater Cleveland Partnership
• Youngstown-Warren Regional Chamber
• Stark Development Board
• Team Lorain County
• Medina County Economic Development Council

For information on partners, including Board of Trustees, Advisory Council and Funders, see below:

Board of Trustees

• Christopher M. Connor, Chairman & CEO  :  The Sherwin Williams Company
  *Team NEO Board Chairman
• April Miller Boise, Partner-in-Charge, Cleveland  :  Thompson Hine LLP
• Dr. Roy A. Church, President  :  Lorain County Community College
• Paul Clark, Regional President  :  National City, now a Part of PNC
  
• Daniel C. Colantone, President & CEO  :  Greater Akron Chamber*
• Jeanne Coughlin, President  :  The Coughlin Group Inc.
• A. Ray Dalton, President & CEO  :  PartsSource
  
  
• Rachel Y. Daniel, CEO  :  Synergy International Limited, Inc.
• Steven C. Glass, Chief Financial Officer  :  The Cleveland Clinic
  
• Thomas M. Humphries, President  :  Youngstown/Warren  Regional Chamber*
  
• Charles E. Jones, Sr. Vice President and President : FirstEnergy Utilities
  
• Daniel E. Klimas, President & CEO  :  Lorain National Bank
  
• Steven R. Lewis, President & CEO  :  First Place Financial Corporation
• Joseph Lopez, President  :  New Era Builders
  
• Donald Misheff, N.E. Ohio Managing Partner  :  Ernst & Young LLP
  
• Steve Morey, President & CEO  :  Team Lorain County*
• Thomas Murphy, President & COO  :  Ben Venue Laboratories
• Stephen L. Paquette, President  :  Stark Development Board*
  
• Joseph D. Roman, President & CEO  :  Greater Cleveland Partnership*
  
• W.J. Timken, Jr., Chairman, Board of Directors  :  The Timken Company
• Stuart W. Cordell  :  Fund for Our Economic Future Representative
  
• Thomas A. Waltermire, CEO  :  Team NEO
  
  * Denotes Funding and Operating Partners.

Advisory Council

• Michael J. Baird, CEO  :  HumanArc
• Paul Bishop, Chairman  :  H-P Products, Inc.
• Lonzo  Coleman, President  :  Coleman Spohn Corporation
  
• Ted Boyd, Chairman  :  First Communications
  
• William Considine, CEO  :  Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Akron
• Maureen Cromling, Chairman  :  Ross Environmental Services, Inc.
• Tom Fleming, President  :  AIM National Lease
• Yank  Heisler, Dean of Business School  :  Kent State University
• Robert Joyce, Chairman & CEO  :  Westfield Group
• Beth Mooney, Vice Chair  :  KeyCorp.
• Richard W. Pogue, Counsel  :  Jones Day
• Luis Proenza, President  :  University of Akron
  
• Ed Roth, President  :  Aultman Hospital
• Alan R. Schonberg, Chairman Emeritus  :  Management Recruiters International

Supported By

Team NEO is supported by the Fund for Our Economic Future, FirstEnergy, Timken Foundation, Charter One Foundation, the Cleveland Plus Marketing Alliance, Greater Cleveland Partnership, Greater Akron Chamber, Stark Development Board, Team Lorain County, Youngstown-Warren Regional Chamber, Ashtabula Growth Partnership, Medina Economic Development Corporation and Council of Smaller Enterprises (COSE).