W. Benoy Joseph- Board Chair

Benoy Joseph is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Marketing at Cleveland State University's James J. Nance College of Business Administration. He specializes in services marketing, strategic market planning, consumer behavior, and business-to-business marketing.  He is also interim chair of the Department of Finance.

Dr. Joseph earned the bachelor's and MBA degrees from the University of Dayton and a Ph.D. in marketing from Ohio State University.  Before entering academics, he worked for the marketing division of NCR Corporation. Today, Benoy is active as an administrator and professor in the graduate business programs at Cleveland State.  His research, focused on various consumer and service industries, has appeared in a variety of national and international marketing journals.

Suzan Krauland - Vice Chair
Graduated with her Masters in Public Health at the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh and her Bachelors of Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She served as the Director for Living-at-Home and Follow-Me-Home Programs (1986 to 1994) at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, followed by serving as the Director of HealthAmerica for Medicare Rick Programming (1994 to 1996). The latest years of her career have been spent at Presbyterian Senior Care, Oakmont, PA as the Executive Director of Managed Care and Home & Community Based Services (1996 to 1998) and then proceeded to Vice President (1998 to 2003) and continued consulting. During this time, she also served as the President of the Board of Directors for HomeHelp Corporation. Current and Prior Board Activity Includes: Pittsburgh Care Partnership, Community Life Advisory Committee, National Chronic Care Consortium, SeniorCareBLUE Board of Managers, Hospital Council of Western PA, Southwestern Pennsylvania Partnership on Aging, and many others.

Scott Swartz - Secretary / Treasurer
Scott is an attorney who is the sole practitioner with a law office located in Rocky River, Ohio. His law practice concentrates on tax planning, estate planning, closely held
entities, and trusts and estates administration.  He graduated from Bowling Green State University in 1983, majoring in both accounting and finance, and from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 1992. He attained a Masters of Law in Taxation (LL.M.) from New York University in 1993. Prior to his legal studies, he was a certified public accountant in Cleveland. Current and Prior Board Activities include: Rocky River Schools Board of Education; Rocky River United Methodist Church Trustees, Treasurer; Tax Club of Cleveland; Rocky River Education Foundation, Planning Commission for the City of Rocky River, and other boards of area nonprofit charities and foundations. He has past experience as an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Tax Program of the Case Western Reserve University School of Law and has been a lecturer at various seminars of the Cleveland Bar Association, Ohio Bar Association, American Bar Association, and Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants. Scott lives in Rocky River with his wife, Sheri, and their four children.

Edwin Oley - Board Member
He earned his Associate Degree in Microbiology at the University of South Florida, Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy from Ohio Northern University and received his MBA from Tiffin University. He began his professional career in 1977 as staff pharmacist for Lima Hospital, then at St. Joseph Hospital and became Director of Pharmacy Services in 1998 and his responsibilities grew to include Laboratory Services. From 1998 to 1993, he led a retail pharmacy operation, E & W Pharmacy, Inc., as owner and president. In 1994, he became the Administrative Operations Officer at Community Health Partners. In December 2000, he was named Senior Vice-President Community Health Partners Health System, President Allen Medical Center . He serves on the Small Rural Hospital board of directors of the Ohio Hospital Association and on the Flex Grant Advisory Committee of the Ohio State Department of Rural Health. He is a member of the American College of Health Care Executives, American Society of Healthcare Pharmacists, and is president of the Pharmaceutical Association.

Diane Savage - Board Member

 Diane Savage works as a consultant to both individuals and organizations interested in planning for the "new" retirement . Most recently she served as Program Coordinator for Pathways at Cuyahoga Community College, a grant project of the Successful Aging Initiative of The Cleveland Foundation. She was a Senior Retirement Consultant and served as a national resource for financial and retirement education. She has knowledge and expertise in programs that focus on psychological/social issues of retirement; financial goal setting; retirement/pre-retirement planning; financial decision-making skills; financial issues for eldercare; money decisions for women; utilizing company benefit plans and owning your role in retirement security. Diane is a frequent presenter at national conferences on retirement and financial education issues as well as preparing enmployees for the retirement of the future. Diane holds a Master's in Student Development in Higher Education from Case Western Reserve University and a B.A. in Secondary Education, English and Business from Ursuline College (Cleveland). Current and prior Board and Membership Activity Includes: International Society of Retirement and Lifestyle Planning; Communications and Education Committee; Financial Planning Association Society for Human Resource Management; and the International Foundation for Retirement Education.

Catherine O'Malley Kearney- Board Member

Catherine is a Vice President and Regional Estate Planning Consultant with The McDonald Financial Group, a division of KeyCorp. Catherine deals primarily with families, business owners and charities to implement wealth transfer strategies.

Catherine has done post-graduate legal tax coursework at the CWRU School of Law. She received her J.D. degree from Cleveland Marshall College of Law and her B.A. degree, with a minor in Marketing, from John Carroll University.

During the course of her work and community involvement, Catherine has presented on behalf of the Probate and Estate Planning Section of the Toledo Bar Association, Lorman Education Services, the Young Lawyers Section of the Cleveland Bar Association and the Lawyer's Guild of the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland. Her board activities include: Kendal at Home (Board of Directors); Associate Board of the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland (former Chair); 2005 Young Philanthropist, Catholic Diocese of Cleveland; St. John the Evangelist (Finance Committee); Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation; Cystic Fibrosis Foundation as well as the Cleveland and Ohio Bar Associations.

Deborah J. Golder – Board Member
Deborah graduated from Boston University and worked as a Medical Laboratory Technologist in Oakland, Calif., for 19 years before becoming an R.N. She then worked as an ICU nurse for 25 years, at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley, the Emergency Ward (trauma unit) at NYC’s Bellevue Hospital, and University Hospitals of Cleveland.

Deborah has lived abroad twice, for one year each in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Happy Valley, Labrador, Canada, and has traveled to 60 countries. Deborah has volunteered in medical missions in Honduras and El Salvador, volunteered as a state-licensed Nursing Home Ombudsman in California, and served on the Alameda County (Calif.) Bio-Ethics Commission and the board of the Cleveland ACLU chapter. Married for 46 years, she and her husband, both retired, have two adult sons, are members of Kendal at Home and live in Rocky River.

Michael Hoffmann - Board Member

Michael is a former member of the staff of The Cleveland Foundation, retiring in December 2004. As Senior Program Officer, Philanthropic Services for the Foundation, he managed the program activities of more than $100 million in foundation funds including supporting organizations, donor-advised funds and a satellite program established in 1988 to benefit two neighboring counties. Michael joined the Foundation in 1981 as Corporate Secretary and Administrative Officer with overall responsibility for operations and financial activities. Prior to that, his experience included serving as Treasurer of the Cleveland Board of Education, assistant to the Cuyahoga County Board of Commissioners, and manager of Cleveland Congressman Charles Vanik's district office.  In addition to his work at The Cleveland Foundation, he has provided assistance to the Puerto Rico Community, the Yellowstone Park, Denver and St. Croix Community Foundations.

Michael Hoffmann took his undergraduate work at Cleveland State University and completed his MBA at Case Western Reserve University. He has served on numerous civic committees in Cleveland and was involved in the creation of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority in 1975. He is past president of the Friends of the Cleveland Public Library. He is on the board of directors of several charitable organizations.

Georgia Anetzberger - Board Member

Georgia J. Anetzberger, PhD, ACSW, LISW received her bachelor’s degree in social work from The Ohio State University and her master’s degrees in anthropology and social work as well as her doctorate in social welfare from Case Western Reserve University.  She has worked in the field of aging for more than thirty years.  Her past employment includes Vice President for Community Services at The Benjamin Rose Institute, Director of the Western Reserve Geriatric Education Center, and Executive Director of the Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging.  Currently Dr. Anetzberger is Assistant Professor in the Health Care Administration Program at Cleveland State University and a consultant in private practice.  Her special area of interest is elder abuse and related interventions, about which she has written and lectured extensively.  She is Editor of the Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect and Vice President of the National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse.  Dr. Anetzberger also is active in numerous professional and community organizations, including serving on the Boards of Directors for the Ohio Association of Gerontology and Education, Hospice and Palliative Care Partners of Ohio, VNA of Mid-Ohio, Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging, and RSVP of Greater Cleveland.