FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Calle Andrus, Communications Specialist
216.916.6434 | calle.andrus@ideastream.org
ideastream Trustees Select Sandra Kiely Kolb as Chair and Welcome Belva Denmark Tibbs and Margaret L. McKenzie to Board
CLEVELAND, Ohio (November 11, 2020) — ideastream is pleased to announce Sandra Kiely Kolb as the incoming chair of the board of trustees. Ms. Kolb was elected as chair at ideastream’s annual meeting on Monday, November 9. She has served as vice chair for the board of trustees for one year and has been an ideastream board member since 2014. She is currently a member of the marketing and development committee and previously served as chair of the nominating and governance committee. Ms. Kolb has previously served on the boards of Saint Luke’s Foundation, Saint Luke’s Hospital, the Cleveland Children’s Museum, the Cleveland Restoration Society and the Wesley Senior Foundation.
ideastream also expresses deep gratitude to Julie Adler Raskind as she steps down as the chair of the board of trustees. Ms. Raskind led the organization for three years and served as a member of the board since 2012. During her tenure as chair, she steered the successful conclusion of the $20.3 million Campaign for Community, championed and supported the creation of ideastream’s 2019–2021 strategic plan, and exemplified stalwart leadership in an unprecedented pandemic that provided daily mission-critical information to eleven million Ohioans.
The following individuals were elected to serve as officers of the ideastream board of trustees for fiscal year 2021 (October 2020–September 2021):
Sandra Kiely Kolb, Chair
Independent Nonprofit Management Professional
Julie Raskind, Immediate Past Chair
Nonprofit Leader
Margaret Mitchell, Secretary
President and Chief Executive Officer, YWCA Greater Cleveland
David Legeay, Treasurer
Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Hawthorn, PNC, Family Wealth
Kevin E. Martin
President and Chief Executive Officer, ideastream
The following individuals were elected to serve terms as new trustees on the ideastream board:
Belva Denmark Tibbs
Vice President, Ancillaries, Service Integration and Government Healthcare Programs, HealthSpan Ohio
Margaret L. McKenzie, M.D., M.S.
Associate Professor of Surgery
President, Cleveland Clinic South Pointe Hospital
The following trustees were re-elected to serve three-year terms on the ideastream board:
Virginia Nord Barbato
Eric & Jane Nord Family Fund
Craig Brooks
Partner, EY
Michael E. Goldberg
Associate Professor, Department of Design and Innovation, Weatherhead School of Management and Executive Director, Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship, Case Western Reserve University
Lauren Rich Fine
Gries Financial Partners
Sean Richardson
Cleveland Regional President, Huntington Bank
Thomas A. Waltermire
Chairman of the Board, PRA Global
In addition, the following trustees were elected to serve as trustee emeritus:
Kevin M. McMullen
Business Consultant/Director/Community Leader
Daniel P. Walsh, Jr.
CEO, Citymark Capital LLC
About ideastream
ideastream serves the people of Northeast Ohio as a trusted and dynamic multimedia source for illuminating the world around us. Publicly supported and locally owned, ideastream is indispensable and highly valued for its unique ability to strengthen our community. ideastream is the consolidation of WVIZ/PBS, with five channels of public television service (WVIZ/PBS-HD, WVIZ/PBS OHIO, WVIZ/PBS WORLD, WVIZ/PBS CREATE and WVIZ/PBS KIDS); 90.3 WCPN, Northeast Ohio’s NPR news and public affairs radio station; WCLV 104.9, Northeast Ohio’s classical music radio station; ideastream Education, with educational resources, services and the award-winning children’s series NewsDepth; and management of The Ohio Channel and the Ohio Public Radio and Television Statehouse News Bureau on behalf of all Ohio’s public broadcasting stations. For more information about ideastream’s rich legacy of innovation and credible content, visit ideastream.org.
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