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 Balthaser, Thompson Hine LLP
Columbus Zoo Appointed Board Members*
James Balthaser, Thompson Hine LLP
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, Robert Half Management Services
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 R. 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
Robert D. Weisman, Franklin County Representative, Ice Miller LLP
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 Balthaser, Esquire, Thompson Hine LLP
President and CEO (non-voting) - Dale Schmidt
Columbus Zoo Board of Directors Members*
James N. Baird, Jr., M. D., Past President, Ex-Officio
Scott Caine, Chairperson, Philanthropy Committee, GroundWork Group
Kenneth L. Cooke, Past President, Ex-Officio, Intermedix Corporation
Joseph W. Donovan, M.D., Chairperson, Conservation & Collection Management Committee,
Riverside Hospital
William T. Grové, Member At Large, UBS Financial Services, Inc.
Thomas J. Heiby, Chairperson, Marketing Committee, FraizierHeiby
Robin Holderman, Member At Large, Columbus Regional Airport Authority
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 LoPiccolo, Fisher Board Fellow, Fisher College of Business
Gary J. Marcinick, Member At Large, Budros, Ruhlin & Roe, Inc.
Craig Marshall, Chairperson, Audit Committee, Ernst & Young LLP
Philip Pikelny, Chairperson, Board Governance Committee, The Dispatch Printing Company
Robert Powers, Member At Large, American Electric Power
Susan Rector, Past President, Ex-Officio, Ice Miller, LLP
J. Randall Schoedinger, Member At Large, Schoedinger Funeral & Cremation Service
Blaine T. Sickles, Past President, Ex-Officio, Community Volunteer
Eric Smolenski, Member At Large, Worthington Industries
Joseph Stegmayer, Past President, Ex-Officio, Cavco Industries, Inc.
William C. Wolfe, Jr., Past President, Ex-Officio, Community Volunteer
The Honorable Michael B. Coleman (Ex-Officio), Mayor, City of Columbus
The Honorable Andrew Ginther (Ex-Officio), President, Columbus City Council
Alan McKnight (Ex-Officio), Director, City of Columbus
Recreation & Parks Department
The Honorable Paula Brooks (Ex-Officio), President, Franklin County Commissioners
Columbus Zoological Park Association Board
Larry Abbott, Aquatic Adventures Ohio, LLC
Michqua Alcott-Allen, Nikou Learning Center
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
James N. Baird, III, Parallel Technologies
Teresa Tykodi Berliner, American Electric Power
Arthur G.H. Bing, M.D., Arthur G.H. Bing, M.D., Inc.
Diana Blessing, graphicAwards
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 Mitsubshi
Mark Chambers, Schoner Insurance Agency
James J. Chester, Taft, Stettinius and Hollister, LLP
Susan Conrad, Community Volunteer
Ida Copenhaver, Community Volunteer
Larry L. Dill, Community Volunteer
Norma J. Dodge, Community Volunteer
Ezra C. Escudero, Skylight Financial Group
Catherine L. Ferrari, Ohio Bureau Workers Compensation
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 and Richard J. Solove Research Institute
Uri Holmes, III, Preferred Capital Management
Nikhil Hunshikatti, The Columbus Dispatch
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 and Incentives
Christian E. Laver, Christian Laver & Associates
Subha Lembach , Franklin County Juvenile Justice Community Planning Institute
Benito Lucio, Jr., Ohio Department of Job and Family Services
Douglas Lumpkin, Ohio Secretary of State’s Office
Kathleen A. MacGhee, Community Volunteer
Robert S. Mauck, Community Volunteer
James W. McGuire, Esquire, Attorney-at-Law, Trustee Emeritus
Michael L. Moore, Community Volunteer
R. Brian 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
Susmita Sadana, The Ohio State University
Anita Scalf, Docent Liaison
Susan Scherer, Community Volunteer
Amber Scott, The Ohio State University Board Fellow
Richard Shank, The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company
Steven P. Shepard, PNC Bank
Jon Shrioma, D.V.M., MedVet
Veda Smith, J. Martin Smith Mortuary
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
Lisa Hyre Timms, Perez & Morris, LLC
Michael J. Voinovich, CPA, SS&G Financial Services
Ronald L. Waterman, Interstate Gas Supply, Inc.
Bobbie Weiler, Community Volunteer
Charles M. Wharton, Fifth Third Bank
Norina V. Wolfe, Community Volunteer
Clyde Woodburn, Community Volunteer
John E. Zimmerman, Community Volunteer
Zoo Ambassadors
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