Appointed 2012 by the Bank Trustees Committee

Sally Gries is founder and non-executive chairperson of Gries Financial Partners, a registered investment advisory (RIA) firm that provides investment and financial advisory services to high-net-worth individuals, foundations, endowments, and retirement plans. A graduate of Northwestern University, she is also a founder and chairperson of Fieldstone Associates, a real estate investment advisory firm, and is on the advisory board of Citymark Capital. The founder of the first female-owned money management and financial planning firm in Ohio, Gries has served on many boards in Northeast Ohio, including Holden Forests & Gardens, Hawken School and Case Western Reserve University, and is a member of the National Advisory Board of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

Appointed 2018 by the Board of Directors

Constance Hill-Johnson is the Owner and Managing Director of Visiting Angels Living Assistance Services, a national franchise, in Cleveland Ohio. Visiting Angels is an in-home service provider assisting the elderly and older adult to live as independently as possible by remaining safely in their own familiar home environment.

Ms. Hill-Johnson started her business in 2002, and now in its 16th year, has successfully served hundreds of seniors throughout the greater Cleveland area and surrounding communities. Her professional background includes over 10-years of senior health care management experience in a variety of health care settings. She is regarded as a both a dynamic motivational leader and speaker who shares with audiences her entrepreneurial journey which began in her early 40’s, in addition to her recent journey as an adult caregiver to a mother with dementia.

Ms. Hill-Johnson’s expertise spans a wide array of organizational settings including acute care hospitals, physician’s medical practices, and professional management services companies. Ms. Hill-Johnson also spent 5 years as an institutional sales broker on an equity sales and trading desk for Merrill Lynch Capital Markets in Detroit, Michigan.

Ms. Hill-Johnson has earned the degree of Master of Public Administration with an emphasis in Health Services Administration from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech Communications from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

She was nominated and selected as one of the 2007 Top 10 Women Business Owners in northeast Ohio by the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO). In January 2005 she was appointed by the Cuyahoga County Board of Commissioners to the Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging (WRAAA) Board of Trustees and is a Board Member of the Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging (BRIA). Additionally, she serves on the board of Adults at Risk (Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry), the African American Outreach Committee of Hospice of The Western Reserve and is past Co-Chair of the African American Philanthropy Committee of The Cleveland Foundation. Most recently she was selected as one of the 2017 Crain’s Women of Note honorees.

Appointed 2020 by the Board of Directors

Frederick E. Bidwell is the executive director and CEO of FRONT Exhibition Company, a nonprofit that plans and presents FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, which celebrated its debut edition in 2018. After a 35-year career as an advertising and marketing entrepreneur, he and his wife established the Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Foundation in 2011. Two years later, the Bidwell Foundation opened Transformer Station, a contemporary art exhibition space on Cleveland’s West Side. Bidwell served twice as board president of the Akron Art Museum and serves as board chair for the Arts and Culture Action Committee. Currently, he also sits on the boards of Cleveland Neighborhood Progress and the Cleveland Museum of Art, as well as the Visiting Committee of the Allen Memorial Art Museum. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College.

Appointed 2015 by The Center for Community Solutions

Carrie Carpenter is Senior Vice President, Regional Manager of Corporate Affairs for Huntington National Bank, where she directs community engagement strategies for the Cleveland region. She has more than 25 years of experience engaging leaders in community initiatives, building public relations campaigns, launching charitable programs and designing initiatives to address the needs of cities. Her experience building strategies spans the corporate, nonprofit, philanthropic and public sectors.

She was named to Crain’s Cleveland Business Forty Under 40 in 2007 and was honored with the YWCA Woman of Professional Excellence award. She is a graduate of the Leadership Cleveland class of 2009. In 2010, she was honored with the American Marshall Memorial Fellowship by the German Marshall Fund, and currently serves as its Cleveland co-chair hosting European leaders in the city annually.

Carpenter earned her B.A. magna cum laude from Kent State University in political science and women’s studies, and her Masters in Strategic Public Relations from George Washington University. She serves as vice chair of the Greater Cleveland Food Bank board, and was a founding board member of the Gordon Square Arts District. She is the founder and director of Women’s Networking Group-Cleveland, a 17,000-member social media discussion group that focuses on empowering women in the workplace.

Appointed 2019 by the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Appointed 2012 by the Board of Directors

Hiroyuki Fujita, an immigrant from Japan and industrialist, is the founder and CEO of Quality Electrodynamics (QED), a global developer and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology manufacturer. In October 2019, QED became a subsidiary of Canon Inc. based in Tokyo, with Dr. Fujita serving as chief technology officer of the CT-MR Division of Canon Medical Systems Corporation (CMSC) headquartered in Tochigi, Japan.

After studying at Waseda University (Tokyo), Dr. Fujita completed his BA in physics and mathematics at Monmouth College and his Ph.D. in physics at Case Western Reserve University. He has authored 17 patents and has published more than 40 peer-reviewed scientific papers and abstracts.

Dr. Fujita serves as an adjunct full professor at Case Western Reserve University in the Department of Physics and the Department of Radiology. He also serves as an adjunct full professor in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the University of Queensland in Australia. Dr. Fujita is a Senior Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.

Dr. Fujita sits on The Ohio State University (OSU) Board and chairs its Talent, Compensation & Governance Committee; he is also a member of the OSU Wexner Medical Center Board of Trustees. Dr. Fujita serves as chair of the Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest Hospital Board and chairs the Cleveland Foundation's Board Governance Committee. He is the Honorary Consul of Japan in Cleveland for the Government of Japan and is a board member of the U.S.-Japan Council's Board of Councilors; the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Foundation (OIST), NY; the OIST Graduate University, Board of Governors, Okinawa, Japan; The Cleveland Orchestra’s Executive Committee; Global Cleveland; the Cleveland Council on World Affairs; and the Greater Cleveland Partnership. He also serves on the President's Visiting Committee, International Visiting Committee, the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence Advisory Board, and the Physics Strategic Advisory Group at Case Western Reserve University.

Dr. Fujita is a frequently invited lecturer at various institutions, organizations, and conferences for national and international audiences. He has published his autobiography, “A Pathfinder,” and authored a monthly editorial in Wedge Magazine.

Dr. Fujita served two terms on the U.S. Manufacturing Council for the U.S. Secretary of Commerce during the Obama Administration, sat on its U.S. Tax and Export Subcommittee, and co-chaired the Energy Policy Subcommittee.

Dr. Fujita founded QED in 2006, and by 2009, it was recognized in Forbes Magazine's top 20 list of “America’s Most Promising Companies,” and granted the Ohio Governor’s Excellence in Exporting E-Award. In 2010, Dr. Fujita received the Industrial Manufacturing Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Northeast Ohio and also received the Young Alumni Award for exemplary professional achievement and service to Case Western Reserve University. In recognition of growing an impactful, high-tech manufacturing company in the United States, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama invited Dr. Fujita to be an honored guest and sit in the First Lady’s Box at the 2012 State of the Union Address.

Dr. Fujita received the 2013 Presidential Award for Export ("E-Award") from the U.S. Department of Commerce for QED’s significant contribution to the U.S. Export Expansion program. In 2019, QED earned the President’s “E Star” Award for continuing U.S. export growth for another four consecutive years. Dr. Fujita was named one of the 100 most influential people for Japan in NIKKEI Business in January 2014. In 2015, he was named Case Western Reserve Radiology Alumnus of the Year and received the Consul General’s Commendation from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs for his contributions to enhancing the relationship between Japan and the United States.

Appointed 2015 by the Bank Trustees Committee

Robert A. Glick is the founder, former CEO and Chairman of Dots, LLC, a national specialty women’s apparel chain. 

Glick was inducted into the Kent State University School of Fashion Design and Merchandising’s Hall of Fame for his accomplishments in the industry and previously served as chair of the school’s advisory board.

Glick also serves on the boards of the Cleveland Orchestra, University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center and the Alliance Solutions Group. He also serves as an advisor to Activant Capital (private equity) based in Greenwich, CT.  

Glick graduated summa cum laude from Ohio University with a Bachelor of Arts and he earned a Master of Business Administration with highest honors from the University of Michigan. In 1995, he was named EY Entrepreneur of the Year.

Appointed 2019 by the Bank Trustees Committee

Rev. Dr. Hedgeman has served as the Senior Pastor at Bethany Christian Church since 1997. In this capacity, Dr. Hedgeman has focused her congregation on a community-centered approach, including the development of a summer enrichment program for youth that provides participants with reading and math skills, sports activities, field trips, and more. Prior to coming to Cleveland, she served seven years on the regional staff of the Christian Church in Ohio. Dr. Hedgeman’s pastoral work has also included stops in her hometown of Washington, D.C., as well as Louisville, Ky. and Peoria, Ill. She is an adjunct professor for the National Youth Sports Program at Case Western Reserve University, a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., and serves as a mentor for the John Adams High School for the Adopt-A-School Program. Dr. Hedgeman earned a Bachelor of Science in Early Childhood Education from Towson State University, a Master of Divinity from Lexington Theological Seminary, and a Doctor of Ministry from United Theological Seminary.

Appointed 2018 by the Bank Trustees Committee

Ronald A. Ratner is a Partner of RMS Investment Group, a closely held family investment company.

Mr. Ratner served as Chief Development Officer responsible for oversight of Forest City Realty Trust’s national development program until September of 2018. His career at Forest City began in 1975 and included direct development, construction, financing and management responsibilities, beginning with individual projects and progressing to executive supervision of multiple large scale developments on a national level. He had direct responsibility for over 80,000 residential units and in excess of 12 million sq. ft. of mixed-use development in 15 States.

Mr. Ratner received his bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University and completed the master’s program in architecture at UCLA.

Mr. Ratner is active with numerous community, educational, charitable and professional organizations. He currently is a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Council and serves on the board of The Cleveland Foundation, Enterprise Community Partners and the Cleveland Clinic. He was active with National Multi Housing Council and has previously served on the Board of Directors at Forest City, and as a board member at The Ohio State University, Park Synagogue, Brandeis University and Menorah Park.

Appointed 2020 by the Bank Trustees Committee

Maria Spangler is the Director of Community Engagement for the Sherwin-Williams Company, a 154-year-old firm founded in and committed to Northeast Ohio. In addition to serving as Director of the Sherwin-Williams Foundation, she develops strategy and provides thought leadership for corporate responsibility efforts in support of communities and 60,000 employees across the company’s global footprint.

Spangler earned her B.A., cum laude, in political science from John Carroll University. She holds a juris doctorate from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and a masters of public administration from the Maxine Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University

Extensively involved and committed to the Northeast Ohio community, Maria serves on the boards of Cuyahoga County Public Library, University Circle Incorporated, and the Greater Cleveland Food Bank. She and her husband Michael are strong supporters of educational access to underserved communities and remain staunchly committed to the mission of Esperanza.

Appointed 2020 by the Board of Directors

Richard P. Stovsky retired from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in June 2018 after 35 years with the firm, holding positions of increasing responsibility, most recently as a Vice Chairman. He currently serves as a Director and Audit Committee Chair of Encore Capital Group, and is on the Advisory Boards of several privately held companies including Safeguard Properties, Morrison Products, Inc. and Anderson-Dubose, Inc.  Stovsky also serves on several nonprofit organization boards, including The Cleveland Orchestra, The 50 Club of Cleveland Executive Committee, The Cleveland Museum of Art Executive Committee, Bluecoats of Cuyahoga County Executive Committee, and University School. He is a Certified Public Accountant and attorney, and holds a bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University and a juris doctorate from Cleveland Marshall College of Law

Appointed 2016 by the administrative judge, 8th Ohio District Court of Appeals

Daniel P. Walsh is the founder and CEO of Citymark Capital. Citymark Capital is a real estate private equity fund management company with