Kevin Walker

Kevin Walker is president and chief operating officer for AEP-Ohio, serving approximately 1.44 million customers in Ohio and the northern West Virginia panhandle. He has authority for distribution operations and a wide range of customer and regulatory relationships.

Walker was previously an executive with Consolidated Edison of New York. Walker has approximately 12 years of experience with Consolidated Edison in various leadership positions. He was also instrumental in directing recovery of energy service following the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

Walker graduated in 1985 from the United States Military Academy with a bachelor's of science in civil engineering. He has a master's of business administration from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School.

Walker served for more than six years in the United States Army. He is a member of the board of directors for Comprehensive Development Inc., a nonprofit organization that supports mentoring and development programs for the Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day High School. In 1999, he received the Harlem YMCA's Black Achiever in Industry Award.

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Stephen Young

Stephen B. Young is the Global Executive Director of the Caux Round Table (CRT), an international network of experienced business leaders who advocate a principled approach to global capitalism.

Young has recently published Moral Capitalism, a well-received book which discusses CRT’s Principles for Business in depth and examines the current state of capitalist trends. It was written as a guide and explains how business can weigh both profit and principle to integrate both value sets in their day to day decision making.

Young has spoken at dozens of venues about the work of the CRT, including the Harvard Business School, Fletcher School for Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, the Commonwealth Club, various chapters of the World Affairs Council, the World Islamic Economic Forum, and the European Business Ethics Network, to name a few.

Young has resides in Minnesota where he came in 1981 to be the third dean of the Hamline University School of Law. Previously, he had been an Assistant Dean at Harvard Law School. Young has also taught at the University of Minnesota Law School, Vietnamese history for the College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota.

He was educated at the International School Bangkok, Harvard College (graduating Magna Cum Laud) and Harvard Law School (graduating Cum Laud).

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Kara Trott

Kara Trott founded Quantum Health in Columbus, Ohio in 1999 with the goal of helping people manage their health and guiding them through the confusing healthcare system. By applying the lessons of consumer behavior analysis and marketing to healthcare, Quantum Health has developed a program known as Coordinated Health/Care™ that now operates in more than 40 health plans around the country, and has held annual claims trend to about 5-6 % over the past six years.

In Coordinated Health/Care, a staff of Care Coordinators works in cooperation with physicians and their office staff to provide patients with information, guidance and assistance in navigating the complex maze of healthcare. By helping direct patients to the most effective and efficient healthcare resource, and getting lab results and other information to the right place at the right time, the Care Coordinators provide a more satisfying healthcare experience while eliminating unnecessary cost.

Today, Coordinated Health/Care is growing rapidly and is catching the attention of industry observers as an innovative, entrepreneur-based innovation in the healthcare industry. The company was featured in the February 27th, 2006, edition of BusinessWeek under the headline:

Quantum Health was also named a 2005 regional Entrepreneur of the Year in the prestigious Ernst & Young competition recognizing entrepreneurs in more than 40 countries. Kara J. Trott, CEO of Quantum Health, and Randy Gebhardt, President and COO, were also selected by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) for a meeting with President George W. Bush on April 15, 2005, during which they explained their approach to healthcare management and cost control for small businesses.

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Pete Geier

Please join us for an event at the OSU Medical Center and a behind-the-scenes tour of the James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute.

We are very honored to have as our guest speakers Peter E. Geier, CEO of OSU Health System, Dr. David E. Schuller, the Senior Executive Director of the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital, and Michael A. Caligiuri, MD, The John L. Marakas Nationwide Insurance Enterprise Foundation Chair in Cancer Research.

The Ohio State University Medical Center cares for more than one million patients annually, educates over 3,500 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students, receives over $190 million in research funding, and employs more than 12,500 faculty and staff.

Prior to joining OSU Medical Center, he was President and Chief Operating Officer for Huntington Bancshares Incorporated. During his 17-year career with Huntington, Mr. Geier held a number of leadership positions. Prior to joining Huntington, he was a Vice President with Merchants Bank in Indianapolis, Indiana.

David E. Schuller is Senior Executive Director of the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, Deputy Director of the OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center and Medical Director of the OSU Medical Center Campaign.

Dr. Schuller’s academic appointments include being Professor of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. Having led the Department as Chair since 1984, he recently retired this leadership position. He specializes in head and neck surgery and facial plastic and reconstructive surgery.

Dr. Caligiuri, a Harvard Medical School alumni, is a Director at OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center, and has authored or co-authored more than 160 scientific publications.

Dr. Caligiuri’s research focuses on the biology and therapeutic potential of natural killer cells, biologic response modifiers in lymphoma, and the molecular biology and genetics of leukemia.

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Tom Rieland

Join us for an exciting event and tour of the new WOSU@COSI. WOSU@COSI is a new digital media center with activities ranging from “live” broadcasts to hands-on digital media exhibits to media literacy camps. The development of this unique and innovative non-profit partnership between WOSU and COSI is part of a wave of cutting edge public media projects across the country.

WOSU Public Media has a history dating back to 1922 and the early days of educational radio. It is a $9.5 million organization with 75 full time staff and is licensed to The Ohio State University.

This presentation will describe the goal of the WOSU@COSI project and how WOSU plans to face the challenges of a world cluttered with media sources and resources. With hundreds of digital television channels, satellite radio, web video and audio sources, podcasts, blogs, and even cell phone video, what is the role of a community funded local public television and radio station?

Tom Rieland has served as General Manager of WOSU Public Media since 2002. A native of Wisconsin, Rieland has 30 years of broadcast experience, beginning his career as a news reporter for commercial radio and television. He supervised the communications center at the University of Mississippi, while receiving a Master’s Degree in Journalism from Ole Miss. For 13 years, he was Director of the Center for Public TV & Radio at the University of Alabama.

Tom has produced over a dozen documentaries broadcast on PBS and has won several regional and national awards as a producer. He is past President of the Ohio Educational Television Stations and of the Ohio Public Telecommunications Alliance and serves on several local boards including the Academy of Leadership & Governance at the Jefferson Center and Columbus Metropolitan Club.

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