Leadership Mahoning Valley class announced

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

The Leadership Mahoning Valley Class of 2016 includes 24 local leaders across a variety of industries.

Leadership Mahoning Valley welcomed its class of 2016 in late September at a breakfast at The Holiday Inn in Boardman.

Leadership Mahoning Valley is a regional leadership organization composed of representatives from the area’s business, education, media, government, law enforcement, arts, health care, public service, nonprofit and faith communities.

Since 1984, LMV has identified people with diverse backgrounds and experience who have leadership potential and a commitment to their communities.

Over a nine-month period, class members attend daylong sessions that focus on major community systems such as education, health care, human service, heritage, government, justice, labor, business, poverty and diversity. The class concludes with a graduation dinner.

Here is the class of 2016: Jami Blake, partner, accounting and auditing at Cohen & Company Ltd.; Joni Comport, assistant vice president/assistant director of human resources at The Home Savings & Loan Company; Len Derico, pastor at Valley Christian Church; Heather Elder, community representative at The Junior League of Youngstown; Lee Hartman, Vallourec performance analyst at VAM-USA; Linda Heater, chief quality officer at ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital; Blaise Karlovic, treasurer/chief financial officer at Mahoning County Career & Technical Center/Mahoning County Educational Service Center; Jenna Kifer, human resources manager at Homes for Kids of Ohio Inc.; Angela Kotouch, property manager at Trumbull Metropolitan Housing Authority; Molly Letcher, director of surgical services for Mercy Health; Stanley Magielski, senior commercial banking officer-vice president at Cortland Banks; Bonnie Manchester, fiscal services liaison at ACCESS; Traci Manning, curator of education at the Mahoning Valley Historical Society; Alicia Miller, associate managing director of retail marketing at Talmer Bank & Trust; Jacqueline Nalls, chief financial officer at ValleyCare Northside Medical Center; Robert Pugh, vice president of operations at Aqua Ohio; Jeffrey Ryznar, owner of 898 Marketing LLC; Joanna Scarazzo, senior financial coordinator at Akron Children’s Hospital Mahoning Valley; Christine Snipes, staff physical therapist at ValleyCare Hillside Rehabilitation Hospital; Julia Sprouse, finance manager/deputy fiscal officer at Warren-Trumbull County Public Library; Ben Swallow, channel development adviser at PNC Bank; Beth Ann Tabak, communications media liaison at Park Vista of Youngstown; Trisha Vukovich, associate managing director/branch manager at Talmer Bank & Trust; and Lorena Williams, director, Hubbard Public Library.