Sandra Pianalto

Sandra Pianalto took office on February 1, 2003, as the tenth chief executive of the Fourth District Federal Reserve Bank, at Cleveland. In 2011, she serves as an alternate voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee.

Ms. Pianalto was born in August 1954 in Valli del Pasubio, Italy. She earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from The University of Akron and an MA in economics from The George Washington University. She is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and holds honorary doctor of humane letters degrees from the University of Akron, Baldwin-Wallace College, Kent State University, Ursuline College, and Notre Dame College. Ms. Pianalto also received an honorary doctor of business administration degree from Cleveland State University and an honorary doctor of laws degree from John Carroll University.

Ms. Pianalto’s tenure with the Bank spans 28 years. She joined the Bank in 1983 as an economist in the Research Department. She was appointed assistant vice president of public affairs in 1984, vice president and secretary to the board of directors in 1988, and first vice president and chief operating officer in 1993. She assumed her position as president in 2003. Before joining the Bank, Ms. Pianalto was an economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and served on the staff of the Budget Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Ms. Pianalto is active in the Fourth District’s civic community. She is immediate past chair and a life director of the board of United Way of Greater Cleveland. Ms. Pianalto also serves on the boards of a number of other community organizations, including The Cleveland Foundation, Greater Cleveland Partnership, College Now Greater Cleveland, University Hospitals, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.

Dr. Lloyd Jacobs

University of Toledo President Lloyd A. Jacobs, M.D., is leading a vigorous process of growth and transformation to promote educational quality and excellence at the university. He began his appointment as the University of Toledo’s 16th president in July 2006, when the former Medical University of Ohio, which he headed for approximately three years, and UT merged, perhaps the most significant event in higher education in Ohio in the last 50 years, and he was selected to lead the merged universities.

Under his leadership, the university operates three campuses, the Main Campus, the Health Science Campus, and the new Scott Park Campus of Innovation and Energy. The institution, which has an annual operating budget of more than $750 million, has enjoyed tremendous momentum, experiencing enrollment growth since 2006 of more than 22,000 students.

President Jacobs has worked to strengthen undergraduate education, graduate and professional education and scholarship, research, and service across UT’s 10 professional colleges; to make the university more, affordable, accessible, sustainable and student-centered; and to encourage exploration how UT can create collaborative programs and synergies involving the arts, humanities, science, technology and other fields.

UT has recruited a diverse student body and faculty, strengthened patient-care programs at UT Medical Center, focused on improving the learning and living environments on and near campus and earned several key institutional accreditations. Dr. Jacobs has further integrated the University’s intercollegiate athletic programs into campus life, secured contract agreements with several University employee bargaining units, celebrated successful completion of the largest capital fund campaign in the University’s history that obtained more than $106 million, entered into research and educational agreements with universities in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and celebrated the 100th anniversary of the university’s distinguished College of Arts and Sciences.

During his tenure, the university has invested more than $200 million in the construction of new buildings and the renovation of existing academic buildings, classrooms and athletic venues. Particularly noteworthy are the $30 million renovation of Savage Arena, the $27 million facelift of Memorial Field House into faculty offices and classrooms, the new Orthopedic Center on the Health Science Campus, the Savage and Associates Complex for Business Learning and Engagement, and the UT Medical Center Heart & Vascular Center.

At the same time, Dr. Jacobs has championed access to higher education for students from middle-and low-income families through a tuition freeze at UT in the 2007-2008 school year and generous financial-aid packages offered through the “UT Guarantee” program. Additionally, he has made it a top priority to catapult UT in technology and sciences, focusing particularly on the University’s longstanding international leadership in solar and alternative-energy research.

The University and the City of Toledo have developed an effective partnership to improve neighborhoods and expand commercial activity near Main Campus, and the University is working to increase the number of new local companies based on UT research through the University’s Science, Technology and Innovation Enterprises. He recently co-authored the book The Relevant University, which describes how UT has an urban university has a responsibility to promote economic development as well as education to the City of Toledo and Northwest Ohio.

President Jacobs became the sixth president of the Medical College of Ohio — later renamed Medical University of Ohio — in November 2003. Prior to coming to Toledo, he was chief operating officer of the University of Michigan Health System, one of the largest systems in the country, senior associate dean for clinical affairs at the University of Michigan Medical School. He also held a faculty appointment as professor of surgery. A native of Holland, Mich., President Jacobs, following graduation from high school, served four years on active duty with the U.S. Marine Corps, receiving an honorable discharge in 1962. He earned a bachelor’s degree in 1965 from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and an M.D. degree in 1969 from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. He completed surgery residency training at Johns Hopkins Hospital, University of California at San Diego Hospital, and Wayne State University Hospital in Detroit.

A vascular surgeon, Dr. Jacobs began his career in academic medicine at Wayne State in 1974, staying there for 15 years. He is the author of six book chapters and of more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed medical and scientific publications such as Journal of Vascular Surgery, Surgery, and American Surgeon, and has been a featured speaker at dozens of national medical and scientific meetings on topics such as vascular disease, managed care, medical leadership, measuring quality in health care and quality assurance. President Jacobs is a member of numerous professional surgical societies and is a past president of the Academy of Surgery of Detroit.

President Jacobs currently serves as president of the Mid-American Conference Council of Presidents and is a member of the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority, the Regional Growth Partnership, Toledo Chamber of Commerce, Inter-University Council of Ohio, Ohio State Medical Association, Academy of Medicine of Toledo and Lucas County, American College of Surgeons and the Society for Vascular Surgery.

He and his wife, Ola, are the parents of two adult sons.

Carl Marcotte

Carl Marcotte was appointed Vice-President, Transportation Group in June 2010. In this capacity, he is responsible for Export Development Canada’s (EDC) services to all exporters and investors in the Aerospace, Automotive, Rail, Shipbuilding and Defense sectors. For a number of years prior to this, He was Vice President, Resources Group overseeing support to Forestry and Agricultural industries. He was also previously Vice-President, Small Business Development Group responsible for all business development activities and new product development for Canadian exporters with total sales of up to $5 million. Mr. Marcotte first joined EDC in 1990, coming from the Toronto-Dominion Bank. In 1996, he left EDC to become Director, Global Credit Management at Nortel Networks Corporation and later Director of North American Customer Finance. In 2000, he returned to EDC and joined the Risk Management Office before being appointed Director of Small Business Financial Solutions in 2001. Mr. Marcotte is a graduate of both Concordia and McGill universities with a degree in International Business and a Masters of Business Administration. EDC is Canada’s export credit agency, offering innovative commercial solutions to help Canadian exporters and investors expand their international business. EDC’s knowledge and partnerships are used by more than 8,300 Canadian companies and their global customers in up to 200 markets worldwide each year. EDC is financially self-sustaining and is a recognized leader in financial reporting, economic analysis and has been recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers for nine consecutive years.

Jenny Lin

Jenny Lin is a Senior Economist for the Americas at Ford Motor Company. Jenny’s primary responsibilities include conducting special economic and strategic research and analyzing general business conditions and forecasting industry sales for Ford’s major markets in the Americas. In addition to the Americas, Jenny also covers a broad range of special topics, including global energy market development, demographic trend, and automotive segmentation analysis. Between 1997 and early 2011, Jenny’s geographical coverage was Asia Pacific and Africa (10 years) and Europe (4 years).

Jenny joined Ford in 1997 after serving as Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri – Columbia for four years. She received her Ph.D. (1993) in economics and an M.A. in applied economics (1986) from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in economics from the National Taiwan University (1985). In 2002, Jenny also became a certified 6-Sigma Black Belt.

Bill Dunkelberg

Chair, GIC

Currently Professor of Economics at the School of Business and Management , Temple University, where he served as Dean from 1987 through 1994 and as Director of the Center for the Advancement and Study of Entrepreneurship. His prior appointments were at the Krannert Graduate School of Management, Purdue University, the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University and the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan. He has served as the Chief Economist for the National Federation of Independent Business (600,000 member firms) since 1971. He has a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of Michigan.