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.

Michael Hoffmann - Vice Chair

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.

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.

Suzan Krauland - Secretary
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.

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.

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. 

Tatyana Hower - Board Member

Tatyana Hower is the Assistant Vice President for Private Client Services for First Place Bank. Tatyana's clients are able to take advantage of an exclusive line of deposit and credit services. She shares many common values with them including protecting family, growing a business, enjoying leisure time, and leaving a meaningful legacy. Their priorities are her priorities. As Tatyana's clients’ lives and goals change, she continues to find the best financial services to fit their life stages.

Serving as a single point of contact, she brings together a wealth of expertise from the strong resources within First Place Bank, as well as some of the leading asset management companies in the country. Her team has proven to be a valuable guide for clients throughout the cycle of wealth accumulation, preservation and transfer.

Tatyana is a native of Khabarovsk, Russia and a graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College. Involvement in the community is very important to her. In addition to Kendal at Home, she has served on the Board of Junior Achievement of Lorain County and is involved with the Jack Nicklaus Golf Benefit Committee and the Women of Compassion Committee.

Richard Melecki - Board Member

Richard Melecki’s career has been varied and diverse, including experience in healthcare, financial services, insurance, and information technology. He has over 18 years experience with the healthcare industry, both in employed positions and as a management consultant. He worked in various operations management positions for Robinson Memorial Hospital, University Hospitals of Cleveland, and Kaiser Permanente. His consulting clients have included Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Maryland, Blue Cross of Northeast Pennsylvania, Christiana Care Hospital in Wilmington, DE, the Cleveland Clinic, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Olsten Health Services, the Order of St. Francis Health System, and the Trinity Health System.

As a Senior Manager with Ernst & Young’s Management Consulting Division, Richard was part of the original team that created strategic business reengineering methodologies. During his tenure with E&Y, he led international strategic business reengineering initiatives for American Express, Bechtel Power Corporation, Coca Cola, and Ikon Office Solutions.

Richard was a Senior Vice President for Superior Consultant Holdings Corporation, a $100 million technology services provider. More recently, he has been working with CEOs of small to medium technology companies on strategic growth issues. Richard is a former member of the Kendal at Oberlin board and attends Kent Friends Meeting.

Beth Korth - Board Member

Beth is currently a personal financial planner with National City Bank (now a part of PNC) in Cleveland. She earned her B.B.A. in Accounting from Cleveland State University (cum laude) and holds her CFP® and CPA designations. As a personal financial planner she assists clients in evaluating their goals with respect to retirement, estate, executive compensation, education and income tax planning. Prior to National City Bank Beth was a financial planner with McDonald Financial Group (a division of KeyCorp), a Wealth Management Consultant with Gries Financial LLC (a regional investment management firm) and a Tax Specialist with KPMG LLC. 

She also serves on the board of directors for the Estate Planning Council (EPC) of Cleveland, is the Chair of the EPC programming committee for the 2009/2010 programming year and chaired the EPC membership committee from 2003 until 2009. While acting as the Chair of the membership committee she was involved with the development of a scholarship program sponsored by the EPC, as well as expanding overall membership through various campaigns and events. In addition, she has participated in panel discussions for the Ohio Society of CPAs with respect to CPAs practicing as financial planners, as well as volunteered for some of their various student financial literacy programs.

Mary Ann Caston- Board Member

Mary Ann Caston received her bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her master’s degree in Public Health from The John Hopkins University in Public Health. In January, 2006, she retired from the Benjamin Rose Institute where she founded the Medicare/Medicaid Certified Home Health Care Department. She was Director of Community/In-Home Services for 25 years. Her previous professional experiences include Consultant for the Ohio Department of Health, Teacher/Researcher at the School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University and Staff Nurse/Supervisor at the Visiting Nurse Association in Providence, RI. Presently, she teaches Community Health Nursing at Cleveland State University. Mary Ann is active in several community organizations, including serving on the Board of Directors of Concordia Care, the Episcopal Community Services Foundation and the Margaret Blenkner Research Institute grant review board.