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Great Lakes Biomimicry

Great Lakes Biomimicry (GLBio) was established to create conditions for sustainable, educationally driven, regional economic development, through place-based GL Bio innovation inspired and tested by nature Great Lakes Biomimicry

Thomas N. Tyrrell \ CEO and Founder\Great Lakes Biomimicry

Professional Profile: Mr. Tyrrell is Founder and CEO of GLBio, an organization of diverse NEO leaders "creating conditions for sustainable, educationally driven regional economic development, through place- based innovation inspired and tested by nature," focusing on institutional, professional and business biomimetic education, and attraction, support, and growth of biomimetically inspired entrepreneurs and start-up companies. He is Founder and Managing Partner of Collaborx, an organization that identifies, facilitates and assists with the discovery, implementation, execution and support of not-for-profit and for- profit business collaborations, focusing on efficient and effective enterprise solutions. Mr. Tyrrell is a Co- Founder and Chairman of Segmint, which analyzes and interprets private consumer spend data anonymously – through a secure technology-based proprietary process – enabling Financial Institutions and their marketing partners to build digital relationships. He is a Co- Founder, Senior Advisor and a Director of Glengary LLC, which combines an unparalleled network of support services with investment capital. His prior thirty-three year career in the metals industry included significant turnaround, M&A and IPO experience, with responsibility for five start-ups, restarts or consolidations ranging from $250M-$1.5B in sales, partnering directly with investment firms which included Primus Venture Partners, PNC Equity Management, Warburg Pincus and The Blackstone Group. In 1988, he won Inc. Magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year (EOY) Award for NEO; in 1989 was selected an EOY national finalist, for the restart and operation of American Steel & Wire; received an Esquire Magazine Register Award for Business and Industry in 1988; and, appeared in Who’s Who in America commencing 1992.

Civic Profile: Since moving to NEO in 1986, Mr. Tyrrell has spent much of his time engaged with the “three E’s” – Education, Environment and Entrepreneurism – aimed at enhancing regional economic development. He has supported undergraduate and graduate-level entrepreneurial programs at Midwestern colleges and universities. He was a Trustee for Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois, from 1990-2011 and Board Chair from 2002-2007. Mr. Tyrrell is a Trustee Emeritus for Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio, serving as a board member from 1989-2010 and Chair of Academic Affairs Committee from 1993-2009. He is a member of the Foundation Board of Lorain County Community College and serves as Chair of their GLIDE Innovation Fund. Mr. Tyrrell is engaged with the University of Akron Research Foundation and the Akron ArchAngels, as well as a member of the Youngstown Business Incubator Board of Directors. He serves on the NorTech Board of Trustees and is a member of the Cuyahoga Valley Initiative, both major NEO economic development efforts. Mr. Tyrrell chairs the Trails Forever Legacy Leadership Leadership Team of the Conservancy of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park and from 1988-1994 and 2000-2006 (Vice-Chair) was a trustee of the Ohio & Erie Canalway Association, the oversight board for the Ohio & Erie National Heritage Canalway. He is a trustee of the Cleveland Zoological Society Board and a Vice-Chair of the NEO Mayors’ and City Managers’ Association’s Regional Prosperity Initiative (RPI). Mr. Tyrrell has been involved with numerous other NEO philanthropic organizations, notably as Founding Chairman of Business Volunteers Unlimited, a member of the Leadership Cleveland Class of 1988 and, in 2010, was named one of 30 Difference Makers in Crain’s Cleveland Business 30TH Anniversary issue.

Education Profile: Mr. Tyrrell received a B.A. in Business Administration from Elmhurst College and an honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from Baldwin-Wallace College

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Great Lakes Biomimicry

Peter H. Niewiarowski, Ph.D. \ Professor, Integrated Bioscience and Biology, University of Akron; Principal Investigator, Biomimicry Research and Innovation Center

Professional Profile: Dr. Niewiarowski’s appointments include Post-Doctoral Researcher, Savannah River Ecology Lab, University of Georgia, Athens GA 1993-1995; Professor, University of Akron (UA), Akron, OH 1995 – current, and Interim Director, Integrated Bioscience PhD Program, 2009 – current. He is actively researching projects in amphibian population biology, life history evolution and physiological ecology of lizards and gecko ecology and evolution especially as it relates to adhesion. Since 2008, Dr. Niewiarowski has been developing collaboration between his lab and the lab of Ali Dhinojwala, a polymer scientist, focusing on the biology and material science of gecko adhesion. That work, which includes active collaboration between graduate students in both labs, motivated an interest in Biomimicry (although he refers to it as biologically inspired design). From a basic research perspective, Dr. Niewiarowski believes that interdisciplinary collaboration can promote new insights into material science as well as biology. His research interests in gecko adhesion provided a perfect context for thinking about Biomimicry.

Dr. Niewiarowski teaches at introductory and advanced levels within the Biology and Integrated Bioscience programs. He has developed courses, which include Advanced Ecology, Herpetology, Principles of Biology, Vertebrate Zoology, Tropical Vertebrate Biology (taught in the field in the Florida Keys and Moorea, Tahiti), Communicating in Integrated Bioscience, and Research in Integrated Bioscience. He firmly believes that Universities are places where research should directly inform teaching at all levels; that is one of the ways universities distinguish themselves from colleges and community colleges.

Dr. Niewiarowski has secured grants from the National Science Foundation to support his research as well as to develop faculty models for integrating teaching and research at the university and K- 12 levels. One of the grants he recently directed, funded K-12 teachers and graduate students in Biology to collaborate on research projects and the development of curricular supplements aligned with state standards and based on local biological research. This led to dissemination of local biological research to students as well as professional development for teachers teaching science, for which these research experiences were the first and only of their careers.

Civic Profile: In 2011, Dr. Niewiarowski joined the Great Lakes Biomimicry Collaborative (GLBio) to lead creation of a model for fellowships for PhD students in Biomimicry at the University of Akron, a key component of GLBio’s strategy for educationally driven economic development through Biomimicry. He continues to work closely with GLBio to expand the fellowship program and integrate the work of GLBio and the UA Biomimicry Research and Innovation Center. In 2010, he and Doug Paige, of the Cleveland Institute of Art, participated in an Educators Workshop run by the Biomimicry Institute and became Biomimicry Fellows, which enabled CIA and UA to become the first joint-affiliates of the Institute. At the workshop, they also hatched the idea of creating a training program for Biomimicry PhDs, and launched the first cohort of students in the fall of 2012.

Education Profile: Dr. Niewiarowski holds a BS Biology, Marlboro College, Marlboro VT, 1984, and a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, 1992

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Great Lakes Biomimicry

Ven O. Ochaya – Ph.D, MBA \ Associate Professor of Business, and Director of the Entrepreneurship & Sustainability MBA Programs, Baldwin Wallace University; Biomimetic Education Services & Networks, Great Lakes Biomimicry

Professional Profile: Dr. Ochaya is a member of the GLBio leadership team with responsibility for education services and networking. In this role, he collaborates with GLBio to help craft, implement, and execute key initiatives related to biomimetic education, economic development, and other defined priorities in partnership with outside parties as needed. Dr. Ochaya is currently the Director of the MBA Entrepreneurship Program and an Associate Professor in the Division of Business Administration at Baldwin Wallace University. He holds the George Herzog Chair in Free Enterprises, with specific accountability for integrating the fundamental tenets of the free enterprise system into the model of entrepreneurialism. Dr. Ochaya collaborates and works closely with the College’s Center for Innovation & Growth (as well as all the other directors and MBA programs) in his teaching and program development responsibilities. He teaches numerous classes in the undergraduate program (including Creativity, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Business Management, Principles of Marketing, B2B Marketing, and the Strategic & Systems Planning Capstone course for Business Majors) as well as MBA courses (Innovation, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Business Planning, and the Strategic Planning & Management MBA Capstone).

Dr. Ochaya has over 17 years of visionary leadership with significant achievements through innovation within Fortune 500 companies ranging from $5 – $30B in revenues. As a member of the senior leadership – first as a Director of Product Technology & Innovation and then as Vice President, Research & Development – he provided effective leadership and management accountability that included business process improvement, human asset management, R&D & next-generation product development strategy, innovation process, and certain third-party partner development. Prior to Avery, Dr. Ochaya spent 12 years at International Paper Company in a variety of roles with increasing responsibilities, primarily in the R&D, new product, technology, and process innovation within the Corporate and Consumer Packaging Divisions. He was especially effective in driving broad-based cross-functional alignment and inter- department relationships, with an excellent track record of success in hiring, developing, grooming, coaching, and mentoring talent to meet organizational, personal, and professional development need for sustained business improvements both companies. Dr. Ochaya has traveled extensively throughout the United States and abroad (especially in Europe, China, India, and South America).

Civic Profile: Dr. Ochaya has been active working with undergraduate students, MBA candidates, and various business partners (SMEs, for-profits, not-for-profits, and institutions) – including Sherwin- Williams, GOJO, MTD, the Cleveland Clinic, etc., in helping develop solutions to real, current, and future business challenges. He is member of the Institute for Sustainable Business Practices, as well as a Fellow in the Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship. He mentors in the STEM education program and other campus programs. Ochaya is an active participant in GLBio and the entrepreneurial ecosystem of NEO.

Education: Dr. Ochaya holds an Executive MBA from Xavier University in Cincinnati, a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, an MS in Chemistry from the University of Texas at El Paso, and a BS in Chemistry from St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. He has over a dozen publications in various technical journals and has been presented with several awards for his business and professional accomplishments, including the 2005 Avery Dennison Leadership Excellence Award for Product Innovation & Service Support. 9/26/13 Howie Beigelman Executive Director Ohio Jewish Communities

Howie Beigelman has over fifteen years of experience at the intersection of nonprofit advocacy and Jewish communal affairs. As Executive Director of Ohio Jewish Communities, he works to advocate for vital human services needs in both Columbus and Washington, DC, with a focus on health and long term care, community services to the aging and those in need, safety and security, and chartered nonpublic schools, while educating elected officials and policymakers on key public affairs issues, including support for Israel, divestment from Iran’s energy sector, and Holocaust remembrance.

An attorney by training, he got his real start in politics by serving as Deputy Research Director for New York Governor George Pataki’s 2002 re-election. He later served in the Pataki Administration as part of the press and communications shop, including time as a speechwriter. Then he joined the Orthodox Union, an international nonprofit, as founding state affairs professional at its nonpartisan public policy arm (then known as the Institute for Public Affairs, and now OU Advocacy), where he increased the OU’s political footprint in statehouses and legislatures across North America. There, he also staffed interfaith dialogue with the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Howie has a JD from Georgetown University where his two favorite professors were Rabbi David Saperstein, now Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom and the late human rights activist, Father Robert Drinan, SJ. Howie earned his undergraduate degree in History from Yeshiva University.

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Sean Joseph Creighton

Sean Joseph Creighton, Ph.D., is the President of SOCHE, a regional association of colleges and universities dedicated to educating, employing, and engaging citizens. SOCHE coordinates programs for over 20 diverse members of higher learning with an annual economic impact of $3.3 billion, serving over 120,000 student and more than 36,000 employees. SOCHE received the Dayton Business Journal’s Non-Profit Business of the Year Award in 2012 and Innovation Index Award in 2015.

Sean is currently in his second term as an elected member of the Board of Education for the Yellow Springs Public Schools, where he has been president, chaired the 2020 Strategic Plan, and served as the district’s legislative liaison. He also serves on advisory committees and boards for several local and national organizations, including Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Midwestern Higher Education Compact, TEDxDayton (license holder and co-chair), ThinkTV Public Broadcasting, and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Community Partnership Leadership Council.

Sean has published and presented extensively on higher education, collaboration, civic engagement, and talent retention. He has also conducted research for the Kettering Foundation on the economic and civic missions of regionally based colleges and universities. He is a voice for collaboration and posts regularly at creightoncollaborative.com. Sean holds degrees from Marist College and New York University, and earned his PhD from Antioch University. He lives in the charming village of Yellow Springs with his wife, Leslee, and his five fun children, Liam, Maya, Quinn, Audrey, and Juliette. [email protected] @seancreighton (937) 430-0349 W. Robert Manning, Jr.

NOCHE Chief Operating Officer

Robert is the COO of NOCHE responsible to manage the day-to-day operations of the NOCHE organization. These responsibilities include: overseeing the operation of the NOCHE programs and standing committees, preparing grant requests and reports, coordinating communication to stakeholders, and developing and implementing NOCHE’s key initiatives, NEO Talent Exchange and NEO Talent Dividend.

Prior to joining NOCHE, Robert enjoyed a successful career of over 38 years in the financial services industry. During his career, he had the privilege to hold over 20 senior management positions across all the major functions of the financial services industry. He is a strong leader and manager having managed teams from 2 people to over 2000 in his varied career.

Robert is known as an innovative senior executive who is recognized for achieving outstanding results particularly in revitalizing underperforming business units. He has extensive leadership experience in finance, operations, strategic planning, project management, organization design, people management, process improvement, staff development and training. He has outstanding organizational management and communication skills.

Robert earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Akron and his Juris Doctor degree from the University Of Akron School Of Law. He is also a graduate of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at the University of Delaware where he graduated with High Honors.

As CEO, Dr. Cosgrove presides over a $6.2 billion healthcare system comprised of the Cleveland Clinic, eight community hospitals, 16 family health and ambulatory surgery centers, Cleveland Clinic Florida, the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, Cleveland Clinic Toronto, and Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. His leadership has emphasized patient care and patient experience, including the re-organization of clinical services into patient-centered, organ and disease-based institutes. He launched major wellness initiatives for patients, employees and communities. Under his leadership, Cleveland Clinic has consistently been named among America’s top four hospitals (U.S.News & World Report) and is one of only two hospitals named among “America’s 99 Most Ethical Companies” (Ethisphere Institute).

Dr. Cosgrove received his medical degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville and completed his clinical training at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Brook General Hospital in London. His undergraduate work was at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass.

He was a surgeon in the U.S. Air Force and served in Da Nang, Republic of Vietnam, as the Chief of U.S. Air Force Casualty Staging Flight. He was awarded the Bronze Star and the Republic of Vietnam Commendation Medal.

Joining Cleveland Clinic in 1975, Dr. Cosgrove was named chairman of the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular surgery in 1989. Under his leadership, Cleveland Clinic’s heart program was ranked No. 1 in America for 10 years in a row (U.S.News & World Report).

He has published nearly 450 journal articles, book chapters, one book and 17 training and continuing medical education films. He performed more than 22,000 operations and earned an international reputation for expertise in all areas of cardiac surgery, especially valve repair. As an innovator, Dr. Cosgrove has 30 patents filed for developing medical and clinical products used in surgical environments.

In 2014, Dr. Cosgrove authored The Cleveland Clinic Way: Lessons in Excellence from One of the World’s Leading Health Care Organizations, which takes an in-depth look at today’s healthcare system. It describes the eight trends shaping the future of medicine in this country to be more efficient, more effective and more affordable than it is today. The book acknowledges the challenges facing the industry but takes a “strongly optimistic” view of what lies ahead by illustrating how the Clinic is helping to shape the future of medicine by working toward one goal: putting patients first.

Dr. Cosgrove is a sought-after speaker worldwide. He has addressed the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting at Davos, Switzerland, and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, in Washington, D.C. He is regularly quoted and featured in national magazines and newspapers, including a cover story in Time, and major articles in Newsweek, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. He has appeared on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, “The Charlie Rose Show” on PBS, and other national media outlets.

The recipient of Cleveland Clinic’s Master Clinician Award, Innovator of the Year Award and Lerner Humanitarian Award, Dr. Cosgrove is also a member of the Cleveland Medical Hall of Fame and Cleveland Business Hall of Fame. In 2007 he was named Cleveland Business Executive of the Year by the Sales and Marketing Executives of Cleveland, and Castle Connolly’s National Physician of the Year. He also received the Woodrow Wilson Center Award for Public Service as well as Harvard Business For information about the School’s Award from HBS Alumni, Cleveland, and the Humanitarian Award of the Diversity Center of doctor’s industry Northeast Ohio. Dr. Cosgrove topped Inside Business’s “Power 100” listing for Northeast Ohio, and is relationships, go to highly ranked among Modern Healthcare’s “100 most powerful people in healthcare” and “most powerful www.clevelandclinic.org physician executives.” And in 2013 he was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the and click on Find a Doctor to National Academies. review each doctor’s profile.

Michael F. Roizen, M.D. Chair, Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute Chief Wellness Officer, The Cleveland Clinic

Michael F. Roizen, MD is currently Chief Wellness Officer and Chair of the Wellness Institute at Cleveland Clinic. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Williams College and Alpha Omega Alpha graduate of the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. He performed his residency in internal medicine at Harvard's Beth Israel Hospital and completed Public Health Service at the National Institutes of Health in the laboratory of Irv Kopin and Nobel Prize winner Julius Axelrod.

Dr. Roizen is a Past Chair of a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee and a former editor for six medical journals. He has published more than 175 peer- reviewed scientific papers, 100 textbook chapters, 30 editorials, and four medical books (one, a medical best-seller), and received 13 U.S. and many foreign patents.

After nine years on the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco, he chaired the top-10-rated Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care at the University of Chicago. He then became Dean of the School of Medicine and Vice President for Biomedical Sciences at SUNY Upstate. After serving as CEO of the Biotechnology Research Corporation of Central New York, he accepted a position as Chair of the Anesthesiology Institute at Cleveland Clinic, responsible for over 180 operatories, 124 critical care beds and 28 pain therapy intervention units. In 2008, Dr. Roizen was named Chief Wellness Officer at Cleveland Clinic, the first such position in a major healthcare institution in the United States. Dr. Roizen also serves as Joseph T. Gorman and Family Chairman of the Wellness Institute at Cleveland Clinic.

His first general-audience book, RealAge: Are You as Young as You Can Be? (HarperCollins Publishers) became a #1 New York Times bestseller and was awarded the Best Wellness Book of 1999 by the Books for a Better Life Awards. RealAge has been translated into more than 20 languages and was #1 in four other countries, displacing Harry Potter for 7 days as #1 on Amazon. Other books include the New York Times bestseller The RealAge Diet: Make Yourself Younger With What You Eat (HarperCollins), written with Dr. John La Puma, Cooking the 1

RealAge Way (Harper Collins), also with Dr. La Puma., and The RealAge Makeover (HarperCollins). His book, YOU: The Owner’s Manual (HarperCollins), written with Health Corps founder Dr. Mehmet Oz, debuted in May 2005 and became a #1 New York Times bestseller (sold more than 2.7 million hardcover copies worldwide; was the #2 best-selling book published in 2005 in 2005-- displacing Harry Potter for 35 days as #1 on Amazon and BN.com.). It was followed by the New York Times bestseller (written with the JCAHO), YOU: The Smart Patient. Their next book, YOU: On A Diet, the Owner’s Manual for Waist Management, debuted at #1 on the New York Times list (11 consecutive weeks at #1 and 35 consecutive weeks in top 3) with 40 printings totaling over 2.4 million copies in the first three weeks (it was the #2 best-selling book published in 2006 in 2006). Their next book, YOU Staying Young, the Owner’s Manual for Extending Your Warranty also debuted at #1 on the New York Times list, and is listed by People magazine as the #3 selling book in the world in 2007. He has published 10 more books in that series. Dr Roizen’s RealAge and YOU books have been translated into more than 44 languages and have resulted in 4 #1 NY Times Bestsellers (more than any other physician) and have been #1 in five other countries.

Dr. Roizen has given over 1,500 lectures to professional medical groups and has been recognized with over 20 professional lectureships. He has appeared more than 28 times each on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Today, CBN, CNN, CBS, Good Morning America, The Dr. Oz Show (where he has served as Chief Medical Consultant since the show’s inception) and Canada AM; and 20/20 (3 times); The Montel Williams Show, Larry King Live, and has five PBS fundraising specials (his fundraising special The RealAge Makeover was one of the top two PBS special fundraisers in 2006, now with well over 5,000 showings in 100 TV markets. He and Mehmet Oz wrote a quarterly column for the nursing magazine, Every Woman, a monthly column for Success, and for Chiropractic Times, and a daily newspaper column syndicated currently to over 130 newspapers by King syndication. Hel also writes a quarterly column for the Robb report. He also hosts a 2-hour 33-station Terrestrial show entitled: YOU The Owner’s Manual Radio Show, live every Saturday. He and Dr Oz shared an Elle in 2008, a lifetime achievement award from Books for Better Health, and the Paul Rodgers award for best medical communicators by the National Library of Medicine in 2011. He was awarded an Emmy in 2013.

Dr. Roizen serves (or served) on the Board of four nonprofits, was President of the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesia and led the United Way Campaign at the Cleveland Clinic in 2008.

Dr. Roizen and his pediatrician wife Nancy have two children – Jeffrey, a pediatric endocrinologist at Children’ Hospital of Philadelphia and Jennifer, an assistant professor of Chemistry (organic) teaching at Duke. Dr. Roizen still practices internal medicine. The Wellness Institute that he chairs aims to elevate preventive care and wellness as a core brand of Cleveland Clinic and a core value they teach their patients, employees and communities.

No institute like this existed or exits anywhere – and the results for Cleveland Clinic employees..smoking rtes decreased from 15.4 to 5.3 percent, 455,000 pounds lost, a 0.5% decrease in BMI’s per year (while the nations have increased 0.37% per year) has resulted in a yearly savings in insurance costs that has allowed Cleveland Clinic to reduce costs to all we serve. The Clinic has also exported such processes and programs to such diverse companies as in manufacturing (LaFarge), healthcare (Bon Secours) and insurance (Crum and Foster).

Current initiatives are to broaden the scope and reach of the wellness programs Dr. Roizen and his team have created over the past ten years. The programs educate and motivate individuals to make better lifestyle choices: to eliminate tobacco use, manage stress, make better food choices and increase physical activity at all levels. Three major areas now being developed and spread all involve making programs more available and affordable throu 1. Spreading the educational programs developed for K-3 and 10-12 to K-12; 2. Developing and proving best in class apps that make achieving the 6 normals frictionless, and 3. Embedding wellness care paths into the discharge plans of all who have been hospitalized or have a chronic disease diagnosis so they do not have to suffer a recurrence.