TABLE OF CONTENTS CIRCLE OF INFLUENCE SARAH BLOOM RASKIN ....................................15 MARTIN SCHWARTZ ............................................27 NANCY GRASMICK ................................................3 BRIAN C. ROGERS ............................................15 MARC B. TERRILL ..............................................27 DAVID CORDISH....................................................3 FREESTYLE REAL ESTATE CIVIC LEADERSHIP ED BOYCE AND SARAH O’HERRON ................16 KENNETH R. BANKS ..........................................28 NORMAN R. AUGUSTINE......................................4 JAMES “BUZZ” CUSACK ....................................17 RANDALL GRIFFIN ..............................................29 J. THOMAS SADOWSKI..........................................5 KEN NIUMATALOLO ............................................17 KAREN MYERS....................................................30 SUE F. WARD........................................................5 DAVID SIMON ....................................................18 EDWARD ST. JOHN ............................................30 DONN WEINBERG ................................................6 PAUL REED SMITH ............................................18 MICHELE L. WHELLEY ..........................................6 TECHNOLOGY HEALTH CARE LILY BENGFORT ..................................................31 COMMUNICATIONS FRAN LESSANS....................................................19 TOM LOVELAND..................................................32 KEVIN BLACKISTONE ............................................7 CHESTER “CHET” BURRELL ..............................20 PAUL PALMIERI ..................................................32 FRANK CHO ..........................................................8 JOSHUA M. SHARFSTEIN, M.D.........................20 HEATHER SARKISSIAN ........................................33 MARY COREY ........................................................8 ALESSIO FASANO, M.D. ....................................21 PETER SEARSON, PH.D ....................................33 AMY ELIAS ............................................................9 JAMES P. HAMILL ..............................................21 FERN SHEN ..........................................................9 SPONSOR PROFILES LAW STEVENSON UNIVERSITY ....................................35 EDUCATION PAULA CARMODY ..............................................22 COMCAST BUSINESS CLASS ..............................36 RONALD DANIELS ..............................................10 WILLIAM H. “HASSAN” MURPHY III ................23 LOCKHEED MARTIN............................................37 KEVIN MANNING................................................11 SHEELA MURTHY................................................23 TABLE SPONSORS ..............................................37 ELIZABETH MORGAN ..........................................11 ALAN M. WILNER ..............................................24 DAVID WILSON ..................................................12 JOSHUA R. TREEM ............................................24 PAST HONOREES ................................................40 FINANCE PHILANTHROPY ATWOOD “WOODY” COLLINS III ......................13 MARY CATHERINE BUNTING ............................25 ALAN J. HYATT ..................................................14 MARK S. FURST ................................................26 NANCY KOPP......................................................14 ARTHUR B. AND PATRICIA B. MODELL ............26 AWARDS CEREMONY THE DAILY RECORD STAFF Wednesday, April 27, 2011 CHRISTOPHER A. EDDINGS..........................................................PRESIDENT The Grand Lodge SUZANNE E. FISCHER-HUETTNER ..............................................................PUBLISHER 304 International Circle | Cockeysville, Md. 21030 TOM LINTHICUM ................................EXECUTIVE EDITOR, VICE PRESIDENT MARIA KELLY ..........................................................................COMPTROLLER Registration / Networking TRACY BUMBA ..................................AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Cocktails / Appetizers ROBERT J. TERRY......MANAGING EDITOR, ONLINE &SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS 5:30 p.m. • Mingle with friends, colleagues and TODD ZIMMERMAN ..............................ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR, VISUALS honorees before the event TARA E. BUCK ............................................SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS EDITOR WAYNE COUNTRYMAN ....................................................ASSISTANT EDITOR Awards Presentation GAIL CLOUGH ..............................DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT 6:50 p.m. • Celebrate this year’s Influential Marylanders ASHLEE IBEX ............................................................PUBLISHING ASSISTANT JESSICA ZWIRBLE ..........................................................GRAPHIC DESIGNER Desserts / Networking 7:15 - 8:30 p.m. • Receive a copy of this year’s TO ORDER ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THIS PUBLICATION, awards publication PLEASE CONTACT TRACY BUMBA AT (443) 524-8120 OR [email protected]. INFLUENTIAL MARYLANDERS 1 LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE EDITOR The Daily Record is proud to present its fifth annual list of Influential Marylanders. Since 2007, our reporters and editors have combed nine key segments of the state’s econ- omy each year for people not in elective office who make contributions of great impact and sig- nificance. We also have a 10th category — Freestyle — for those highly influential in other fields. Beginning in December, we sift through a long list of names we have compiled throughout the year. Many of the names are familiar to us, have been considered before and have won before. We also make a special effort each year to identify people we have not considered before. We knew that some names would be at the top of the list every year, so from the beginning, we said that people could not be named an Influential Marylander in consecutive years. Even with that restriction, we knew that some individuals might win the honor every other year for many years. So we also decided that after being named an Influential Marylander for the third time, a person would receive special recognition by being inducted into the Circle of Excellence and would no longer be eligible to be named to the annual list. This is the first year that anyone could have been named an Influential Maryland for the third time. Nancy Grasmick and David Cordish have claimed that honor and become the first mem- bers of the Circle of Influence. Their biographies appear elsewhere in this publication, but suffice it to say that these are two extraordinary individuals. Little did we know last December that Grasmick would announce this spring that she will Photo by Maximilian Franz retire in June after two decades on the job. But she did, so now she can take her Circle of Influence award as one more tribute to an illustrious career which has culminated in Maryland public schools being named to a top ranking in a national education publication three years in a row. Cordish, meanwhile, has continued as a bold, successful developer here and elsewhere even through the Great Recession. Most recently he bid successfully for the right to build a slot machine casino near the Arundel Mills Mall, then conducted a winning political campaign, even going door-to-door himself, to defeat a referendum that would have derailed the facility. We salute all of our 2011 Influential Marylanders, but especially Nancy Grasmick and David Cordish. It is a privilege to present this list and to honor these people. As always, we hope our choices stimulate awareness not only of these individuals and their contributions but also of the many deserving Marylanders who did not make this list but who are influential in so many ways. Tom Linthicum JUDGING PROCESS The judging process for Influential Marylanders was difficult because category called Freestyle to include some very influential of the impressive qualifications of so many Marylanders. That said, this Marylanders who did not fit neatly into one of the other cate- is how The Daily Record made its selections. gories. Because they are influential by definition, no elected offi- First, the categories were chosen by The Daily Record to cials were included among the winners. reflect significant segments of the state’s civic, commercial and In each category, special consideration was given to the professional activity. Those categories are civic leadership, com- following attributes: munications, finance, education, health care, law, philanthropy, real estate and technology. •INFLUENCE; The editorial staff of The Daily Record then suggested a num- •PROMINENCE; ber of names in each category. Final selections were made by a panel of the newspaper’s •CONTRIBUTIONS TO INDUSTRY; editors, who chose five winners in each category. •STATURE WITHIN INDUSTRY; AND In making their selections, the editors added a 10th •COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT. 2 INFLUENTIAL MARYLANDERS EDUCATION NANCY GRASMICK MARYLAND STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Nancy Grasmick has been the leading advocate for Maryland’s children as state super- intendent of schools for 20 years, and her leadership and passion have paid off in meas- urable results. Early childhood education is just such an example: While 42 percent of the state’s chil- dren started kindergarten “ready to learn” 10 years ago, the level in 2010 reached 80 per- cent, following an aggressive initiative Grasmick put in place in