Officers and Directors

  
President

Bennett L. Gaines
Vice President, Corporate Shared Services and Chief Information Officer, First Energy Corp.

Vice President

Anita L. Davis, Esq.
Legal Counsel, Summit County Dept. of Job and Family Services

Treasurer

Joseph P. Saporito
Director, H.C. Lobalzo & Sons, Inc.

Secretary 

Dana K. LaGarde
Senior Consultant System Integration
AT&T 

 

  
 
Maura Scanlon Bozzelli, Esq.
Attorney at Law, The Scanlon Group
Lee A. Gill, J.D.
Associate Vice President for Inclusion & Equity/Chief Diversity Officer
The University of Akron  
William Hauser, Ph.D. 
Assistant Dean and Director of Graduate Studies, College of Business Administration 
The University of Akron 
Henry L. Johnson, Sr.
Owner
Henry’s Acme 
Danielle Kimmell, CPA
Partner, Bober Markey Fedorovich
Past PGA Board President
 
Robert Kulinski
President
United Way of Summit County
Past PGA Board President 
 
 
Ellen McWilliams, Ph.D.
Assistant Superintendent
Akron Public Schools 
Russel C. Neal, Jr.
Owner, Graffitti Print Shop
Member, Akron City Council 
Richard Nickerson, III 
Sales and Services Executive 
Charlene K. Reed, Ph.D.
Secretary to the Board of Trustees and
Senior Assistant to the President
Kent State University 
Terri Rogers, CPA, CBA
Vice President and Senior Audit Manager
FirstMerit Bank
Billy Soule
Assistant to the Mayor
The City of Akron 

Paul Stallings 
Retired, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company 

Pamela R. Valentine
Regional Manager of South Region 
Girl Scouts of North East Ohio  

Kathy K. Vidakovics
Sales Team Manager and Personal Mortgage Advisor
First Federal (a division of First Federal Lakewood)

Oscar Williams, Jr.
Treasurer, Buchtel PTA 

  

David W. James
Superintendent
Akron Public Schools  

Jacqueline A. Silas-Butler, Esq.
Executive Director
Project GRAD Akron  

 


Past Project GRAD

 Akron's Board Presidents

2002-2004 2004-2007 2007-2009 2009-2012
Bob Kulinski Jocelyn McClendon Jean Van Ness, Esq. Danielle Kimmell, CPA

 

 
 
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