Key Staff of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium
President and CEO – Dale Schmidt
Chief Operating Officer – Tom Stalf
Chief Finance Officer – Greg Bell
Senior Vice President Community Engagement – Joe Bull
Senior Vice President Animal Care and Conservation – Lewis Greene
Senior Vice President, Zoombezi Bay – John Gannon
Governing Boards
The Columbus Zoological Park Association is a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit corporation. It has a one hundred twenty-five member Association Board that meets quarterly. The twenty - two member Board of Directors meets monthly to oversee the operations of the Zoo. The tax levy receipts received by the Zoo are administered by a public Appointed Board that consists of eighteen members. Six members are designated by the City of Columbus, six by the Franklin County Commissioners and six by the Columbus Zoological Park Association.
Columbus Zoo Appointed Board *
Officers:
President - Timothy R. May, Chase Small Business Financial Services
Vice President - Philip Pikelny, Dispatch Printing Company
Secretary/Treasurer - James H. Balthaser, Esquire, Thompson Hine LL
Columbus Zoo Appointed Board Members*
TaKeysha Sheppard Cheney, Franklin County Representative, The Women's Book
Joseph W. Donovan, M.D., Zoo Association Representative, Riverside Hospital
William Goldman, City of Columbus Representative, Goldman & Braunstein, LLP
Of Counsel, Crabbe, Brown & James, LLP
Jolene K. Hickman, City of Columbus Representative
Chad Jester, City of Columbus Representative, Nationwide
John J. Kulewicz, City of Columbus Representative, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease, LLP
Siu-Leung Lee, PhD, Franklin County Representative, InTechTra and Asiawind Website
Bernard F. Master, D.O., Franklin County Representative
Tim May, Zoo Association Representative, Chase Small Business Financial Services
Bonnie Milenthal, Franklin County Representative, The Milenthal Group
Philip Pikelny, Zoo Association Representative, Dispatch Printing Company
Susan D. Rector, City of Columbus Representative, Ice Miller LLP
Charles A. Rodenfels, AIA, Zoo Association Representative, Evans, Mechwart, Hambleton & Tilton, Inc.
Mary Rose, Franklin County Representative, Community Volunteer
Keith Shumate, City of Columbus Representative, Squire Sanders (US) LLP
Ronald D. Townsend, Zoo Association Representative, Battelle Memorial Institute
Connie R. Woodburn, Zoo Association Representative, Cardinal Health
Columbus Zoo Board of Directors*
Officers:
Immediate Past Chairperson - Connie R. Woodburn, Cardinal Health
Chairperson - Timothy R. May, Chase Small Business Financial Services
Vice Chairperson - Philip Pikelny, Dispatch Printing Company
Secretary/Treasurer - James H. Balthaser, Esquire, Thompson Hine LLP
Columbus Zoo Board of Directors Members*
James N. Baird, Jr., M. D., Past President, Ex-Officio
Craig Marshall, Chairperson, Audit Committee, Ernst & Young LLP
Scott Caine, Chairperson, Development Committee, Verizon Wireless
Hon. Michael B. Coleman (Ex-Officio), Mayor, City of Columbus
Kenneth L. Cooke, Past President, Ex-Officio, Intermedix Corporation
Joseph W. Donovan, M.D., Chairperson, Conservation & Collection Management Committee,
Riverside Hospital
William T. Grové, UBS Financial Services, Inc.
Thomas J. Heiby, Chairperson, Marketing Committee, FrazierHeiby
William L. Hoy, Past President, Ex-Officio Columbus Sign Company
Gilman D. Kirk, Jr., Past President, Ex-Officio, Community Volunteer
Kathy Koblentz, Past President, Ex-Officio, Community Volunteer
John J. Kulewicz, Past President, Ex-Officio, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease, LLP
James E. Kunk, Past President, Ex-Officio, Huntington National Bank
Christina Lo Piccolo (Ex-Officio), Fisher Board Fellow, Fisher College of Business
Gary J. Marcinick, Budros, Ruhlin & Roe, Inc.
Philip Pikelny, Chairperson, Board Governance Committee The Dispatch Printing Company
Alan McKnight (Ex-Officio), Director, City of Columbus Recreation & Parks Department
Hon. Andrew Ginther (Ex-Officio), President, Columbus City Council
Hon. Marilyn Brown (Ex-Officio), President, Franklin County Commissioners
Robert Powers, American Electric Power
J. Randall Schoedinger, Schoedinger Funeral & Cremation Service
Blaine T. Sickles, Past President, Ex-Officio, Community Volunteer
Eric Smolenski, Worthington Industries
Joseph Stegmayer, Past President, Ex-Officio, Cavco Industries, Inc.
William C. Wolfe, Jr., Past President, Ex-Officio, Community Volunteer
Columbus Zoological Park Association Board
Larry Abbott, Abbott Management Group
Michqua Alcott-Allen, Artina Promotional Products
Carol Allerding, Experience Columbus
Ted L. Altenburg, Merrill Lynch
Carol J. Andreae, Crossroads Coaching
Stanford Apseloff, Ohio Distinctive Software, Inc.
Vanessa Arnold, Paralegal/Tax Preparation
Teresa Tykodi Berliner, American Electric Power
Arthur G.H. Bing, M.D., Arthur G.H. Bing, M.D., Inc.
Diana Blessing, Graphic Awards
Thomas E. Bogen, Community Volunteer
Donald L. Burton, D.V.M., Animal Care Unlimited
Laura Byrne, Byrne and Byrne LLP
John Cadwallader, Frost Brown Todd LLC
Thomas F. Calhoon, Prudential Calhoon Co.
Brian C. Campbell, KPMG LLP
Tom Carpenter, Columbus Mitsubishi
Mark Chambers, Chambers Contracting, Inc.
James J. Chester, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
Susan Conrad, Community Volunteer
Ida Copenhaver, Community Volunteer
Larry L. Dill, Community Volunteer
Norma J. Dodge, Community Volunteer
Catherine L. Ferrari, Community Volunteer
Ann T. Gallagher, Gallagher Consulting Group
Ronald L. Geese, The Geese Group LLC
Christopher Godley, Hylant Group
Theresa Harris, Blackwell Consulting Services of Ohio, LLC
James C. Henry, Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital
Uri Holmes, III, Preferred Capital Management
Robert L. Hust, Honda of America Manufacturing, Inc.
Gordon J. Jablonka, Aquatic Adventures Ohio, LLC
Ray Ayton Jones, The Jones Company of America
Brian Klopfer, Sussex Mortgage Company
Edward G. Klopfer, Sussex Mortgage Company
Dennis J. Kozlowski, Community Volunteer
George Kun, George Kun Travel
Christian E. Laver, Christian Laver & Associates
Subha Lembach, United Way
Robert S. Mauck, Community Volunteer
James W. McGuire, Esquire, Attorney-at-Law, Trustee Emeritus
Kathleen A. MacGhee, Community Volunteer
Michael L. Moore, Community Volunteer
R. Brain Moore, Cardinal Health
Edwin L. Overmyer, Community Volunteer
Michael A. Petrecca, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Edmund J. Reinhard, CPA, Crowe Horwath LLP
Michael J. Renner, Community Volunteer
Janis Rosenthal, Thompson Hine LLP
Ronald J. Rotaru, Accountancy Board of Ohio
Anita Scalf, President, Columbus Zoo Docent Association
Susan Scherer, Community Volunteer
J. Randall Schoedinger, Schoedinger Funeral & Cremation Service
Richard Shank, The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company
Steven P. Shepard, The PNC Financial Services Group
Jon Shiroma, D.V.M., Med Vet
Lewis R. Smoot, Jr., The Smoot Corporation
Jill Snyder, President, Friends of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium
Thomas M. Stockdale, Community Volunteer
Hon. Anne Taylor, Judge, Franklin County Municipal Court
Michael J. Voinovich, CPA, SS&G Financial Services
Ronald L. Waterman, Interstate Gas Supply, Inc.
Bobbie Weiler, Community Volunteer
Bob Weisman, Ice Miller LLP
Charles M. Wharton, Fifth Third Bank
Norina V. Wolfe, Community Volunteer
Clyde Woodburn, Community Volunteer
John E. Zimmerman, Community Volunteer
Zoo Ambassadors
Tony Condo, Radio One—Columbus
Peter DallePezze
David Dieterle
Michael H. Goldberg, RITERug
Christina Lyons, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP
Pilar Powell
Mark D. Senff, Esquire, Baker & Hostetler LLP
Nathan P. Wymer, Nationwide
* Also members of Association Board.