Ronald Brian Richard
Ronn Richard is the recently retired CEO of the Cleveland Foundation, where he served for over 20 years. Under his leadership, the Foundation’s annual philanthropy grew tenfold and its endowment more than doubled. He spearheaded transformative initiatives, including relocating the Foundation’s offices to Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood to stimulate economic development. Ronn previously served as a foreign service officer in Japan and as a senior executive with Panasonic North America. He also served on the board of Spelman College and over a dozen other non-profit, corporate and academic boards. He currently serves on the boards of Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals in Cleveland, NIH’s International Biomedical Research Alliance with Oxford and Cambridge Universities and several others. He holds a B.A. in History and Japanese Studies from Washington University and an M.A. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies as well as three honorary doctorates from the Northeast Ohio Medical University, Notre Dame College, and Balwin-Wallace College.