Purple America Advisory Board
Chairmen
Patricia Frost-Brooks, Co-Chairwoman, Purple America, Past President, Ohio Education Association - Cleveland, Ohio
John Wilson, Co-Chairman, Purple America, Retired Executive Director, NEA – Raleigh, North Carolina
Business Advisory Cabinet
Christopher Connor, Co-Chair, Business Advisory Cabinet, Chairman & CEO, The Sherwin-Williams Company – Cleveland, Ohio
Alan Hassenfeld, Co-Chair, Business Advisory Cabinet, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Hasbro, Inc. – Providence, Rhode Island
Frank Savage, Co-Chair, Business Advisory Cabinet CEO, Savage Holdings, LLP – New York, New York
Vice Chairs
John Butte, Vice Chair, Purple America, President, John Butte & Associates – Cleveland, Ohio
Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, Jr., Vice Chair, Purple America, Retired Pastor, Olivet Institutional Baptist Church – Cleveland, Ohio
Dr. Eugene Sanders, Vice Chair, Purple America, Former Cleveland Schools CEO - Cleveland, Ohio
Ratanjit Sondhe, Vice Chair, Purple America, Founder, Discoverhelp, Inc. – Cleveland, Ohio
Founders
Ken Lanci, Chairman Emeritus, Project Love-Purple America, CEO, Consolidated Graphics – Cleveland, Ohio
Stuart Muszynski, President & CEO, Values-in-Action Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
Advisory Board Members
Joe Bernstein, Retired, Grandparents.com – Boca Raton, FL
Nicholas Bertram, Senior Vice President of Store Strategy & Execution, Ahold
Russell Bishop, Editorial Director, Huffington Post Media Group – New York, New York
James "Jamie" Callender, Jr., Managing Partner, Callender Law Group
Rev. Dr. Calvin Butts, III, Pastor Abyssinian Baptist Church, President SUNY Old Westbury – New York, New York
David Cooperrider, Fairmount Minerals Professor of Organizational Behavior, CWRU – Cleveland, Ohio
Ed Davidson, Former Project Love Chair, CEO, Cooperative Lending Resources – Stamford, Connecticut
Barry Doggett, Retired, Community and Government Affairs, Eaton Corp. – Cleveland, Ohio
Matt Dolan, Attorney, Thrasher, Dinsmore & Dolan, LPA - Cleveland, OH
Amir Dossal, Founder & Chairman, Global Partnerships Forum – Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations - New York, NY
Sander Flaum, CEO, Flaum Navigators – New York, New York
Dr. Charlotte Frank, Executive VP, McGraw Hill Companies – New York, New York
Avery Friedman, Esq., National Constitutional Law Expert/CNN Legal Commentator – Cleveland, Ohio
Jennifer Gambatese, Broadway Star – New York, New York
Philip Goldsmith, Former CEO, School District of Philadelphia – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Eric Gordon, CEO, Cleveland Metropolitan School District – Cleveland, Ohio
Ida Haber, Community Activist – Cleveland, Ohio
Tim Hagan, Stella Maris - Cleveland, Ohio
Dr. Thomas Harvey, Associate Professor of Economics & Finance, Ashland University – Ashland, Ohio
Brian Heller, SVP, GlobalSpec – Fairfax, Virginia
Tom Hopkins, Senior VP, HR, Sherwin Williams – Cleveland, Ohio
Greg Johnson, High School Music Teacher, Former Executive Committee Member of NEA – Mustang, Oklahoma
Marci Koblenz, Executive Director, Companies That Care – Chicago, Illinois
Peter Lawson Jones, Attorney – Cleveland, Ohio
Steve Leber, Grandparents.com – New York, New York
Bill Lennon, Lokring Technology - Cleveland, Ohio
Bill Mason, Former Cuyahoga County Prosecutor – Cleveland, Ohio
Rev. Marvin McMickle Ph.D., President, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School – Rochester, New York
Jerry Molen, Producer, “Schindler’s List” – Whitefish, Montana
Marc Pollick, Founder, The Giving Back Fund – Los Angeles, California
Sandra Roberts, Director, The Paper Clips Project – Whitwell, Tennessee
Chris Ronayne, President, University Circle Inc. – Cleveland, Ohio
Peter Rzepka, Transcon Builders, Democratic Leader – Cleveland, Ohio
Terry Scott, Retired, Hasbro – Providence, Rhode Island
Donald Seymour, Former Digital Director, Speaker John Boehner – Washington, DC
Bernie Siegel, MD, Physician & Author – Woodbridge, Connecticut
Ronald Thorpe, President & CEO, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards – Washington, DC
Peter Tuttle, Former CEO, Jobserve USA – Cleveland, Ohio
Jerry Wareham, President, WVIZ/PBS Ideastream – Cleveland, Ohio
Juan Williams, Fox News Analyst
Sheila Wyse, Advertising Executive – Cleveland, Ohio
Peter Yarrow, Folk singer, Operation Respect – New York
Fred Zeidman, CEO, Zeidman Associates, Republican Leader – Houston, Texas
In Memoriam
Alan Schonberg, Co-Founder, Management Recruiters International – Cleveland, Ohio
Steve Wing, CEO, Wings Consulting – Washington, DC
Marc Wyse, Advertising Executive – Cleveland, Ohio