Giving Back To Our Community!
Our board represents a cross-section of our community and has a passion for our organization and those we serve. The members work hard to ensure the long-term sustainability of the organization and oversee that the funds raised directly affect those in need.
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David Castillo GocherDavid Castillo Gocher is an Associate Attorney with Thompson Hine in the firm's Corporate Transactions & Securities practice group. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters, including governance, compliance with state and federal laws, and formation and operation. Prior to joining Thompson Hine, he practiced at an Am Law 200 firm where he worked as a corporate and labor employment associate. Further, he advised clients on various aspects of employment-based immigration, including immigrant and non-immigrant visas.
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Kate FortlageKate Fortlage is Director of Strategy and Business Development (Innovation) at Formica. She analyzes current business strategies for improvements, i.e. revisions to stage gate process & completing product launch cadence recommendations. Kate has 14 years of CPG marketing, innovation and management experience.
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Roseann HasseyDr. Roseann Hassey is a Marketing professor at the University of Cincinnati, where her research focuses on branding, consumer attitudes and decision making, and consumer responses to brand failure. She is a Strategic Marketing expert with a 25-year record of creating, strengthening and building brands, and a passion for improved consumer understanding and brand engagement. Her work in brand management at Proctor & Gamble and Reebok helped her to refine her thinking regarding consumer-brand relationships, including how they form and evolve over time.
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Seetharaman KishorSeetharaman Kishor is the Senior Vice President and Line of Business Chief Information Officer for the Consumer Bank, Enterprise Payments, and Wealth & Asset Management divisions at Fifth Third Bank. He is responsible for Information Technology strategy, execution and service management for these lines of businesses. Before moving into his current position, Kishor held various Technology leadership positions including Chief Architect, Divisional Information Officer and Enterprise Data Services at M&T, IBM, and Capital One.
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Kyle LudlowKyle Ludlow is a real estate transaction assistant manager, at Kroger. Kyle was born and raised in Cincinnati. Kyle has a Master’s degree in Finance from the University of Cincinnati and has a B.A. degree in History from Ohio State University. Kyle is active with the UC Real Estate Center, Urban Land Institute, International Council of Shopping Centers. He is also a member of the Mercantile Library and the Cincinnati Preservation Collective.
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Anne LueckeAnne Luecke has spent the past 20 years working to improve the socio-economic conditions for underserved populations in our communities through public and nonprofit service. Anne does consulting work with local nonprofits in the areas of policy creation, fundraising and development, and marketing and messaging. She helped found the Human Services Chamber of Hamilton County, a collaborative effort of local human service providers working to increase their visibility in the community, aided the government relations work of Talbert House, and recently managed several projects for the development team at Pro Bono Partnerships of Ohio.
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Andrea MersmannAndrea Mersmann is the Leadership Programs Manager with the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber. Previously, Mersmann was at Xavier University where she had risen through the Department of Career Development as a Career Coach, Assistant Director, and Interim Director.
