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212 North Washington St.
Millersburg, OH 44654-1122
Phone: 330-674-6055

Zac Morris, CPA is currently a principal and Director of Government Services at Rea & Associates, Inc., a regional accounting and business consulting firm. Zac provides solutions to clients in the not-for-profit and local government industries. After earning a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Ohio Wesleyan University, Zac went on to earn his master’s degree in business administration from Ashland University. Zac is an active member of The Ohio Society of CPAs and The American Institute of CPAs. In addition, Zac is a member of the National Alliance for Medicaid in Education and Healthcare Finance Management Association.

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17 S. High Street
Suite 750
Columbus, OH 43215
Phone: (614) 224-4411

Jonathan Downes has over 30 years of experience in practicing labor and employment law in Ohio and has successfully negotiated over 500 labor agreements and has presented over 100 impasse proceedings and 100 arbitrations. He represents cities, townships, counties, school districts, and public officials throughout the State of Ohio. Jonathan also represents private employers in employment matters. He has argued cases before the Ohio Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.  Jonathan is rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell. Jonathan is a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. Jonathan has been selected as one of the “Best Lawyers in America – Employment and Labor Law” every year since 2010, as an “Ohio Super Lawyer” every year since 2004, one of “Central Ohio Top Lawyers” since 2009, and received the OHPELRA “Award of Excellence” in 2016. He is also certified by the Ohio State Bar Association (“OSBA”) as a Specialist in Labor and Employment law.  He lectures frequently on many topics including state and federal employment and labor law developments, civil rights, civil service, arbitration, and collective bargaining. Jonathan served on the Civil Service Review Commission for the State of Ohio, authored “Civil Service Law in Ohio,” and edits the Westlaw annual publication of the “Ohio Civil Service and Collective Bargaining Laws and Rules Annotated.” Jonathan was a member of the OSBA’s Board of Governors for the Labor and Employment Law Section, is a member of the Ohio Management Lawyers Association, and a charter member and past president of the Ohio Public Employers Labor Relations Association. Jonathan volunteers in his community in various capacities including serving on boards of a public library and two charter schools and advises a high school mock trial team.

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277 East Town Street
Columbus, Ohio 436215
Phone: 800-222-7377

Mr. Blann, an Education Representative at The Ohio Public Employees Retirement System, represents the retirement system in a public speaking capacity.  He travels throughout the state of Ohio conducting individual meetings and group seminar presentations. 

Kevin earned his B.S. degree in comprehensive science from Ashland College.  Prior to joining OPERS, Kevin spent 8 years as a Financial Advisor and Guided Portfolio Manager with the Columbus office of Smith Barney.  Additionally, he has 13 years of science and research experience with Battelle Memorial Institute and The United States Army’s Radiologic Inorganic Chemistry Division.

Kevin has been married to his wife Lucille for thirty seven years.  Together they have two boys Kevin Jr., and Marcus who serve our nations cause in the United Sates Navy and United States Air Force, respectively.

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277 East Town Street
Columbus, Ohio 43215
Phone: 614-222-2924

Gordon joined OPERS in September 2009 as the Government Relations Officer and became a
member of the leadership team in January 2017. As Director of External
Relations, Gordon is responsible for oversight of Government Relations,
Communications, and Corporate Governance. He is responsible for coordinating
OPERS' position on legislative issues, proxy policy guideline adherence, advocacy,
and communications strategies.

Prior to joining the OPERS team, Gordon held numerous positions within the Ohio
Department of Commerce and the former Ohio Department of Industrial Relations
over a span of about 19 years -- including Assistant Director and Interim
Director.

Gordon earned his Bachelor of Arts in communications from Capital University and
attended Capital University Law School.

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100 East Broad Street
Columbus, Ohio 43215
Phone: 614-738-2109

David J. Robinson is the Principal and Founder of the Montrose Group, LLC and provides economic development planning, lobbying, corporate site location consulting and legal services.  Mr. Robinson brings 20 years of experience as a lobbyist, lawyer, economic development, telecom and public relations executive before the Congress, Statehouse, state and federal agencies and local governments to serve his customers, lead the creation of over a dozen economic development strategic and Downtown redevelopment plans, and negotiated over $150,000,000 in economic development incentives for a range of clients.

David J. Robinson is the national economic development expert, adjunct professor at the Ohio State University and Bowling Green State University and author of two economic development textbooks published by Palgrave-MacMillan.   Prior to forming the Montrose Group, he worked:

Mr. Robinson is a graduate of Bowling Green State University with a B.A. Political Science, a law degree from the Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University, and an Advanced Management Certificate from the Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University.

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100 East Broad Street
Columbus, Ohio 43215
Phone: 614-629-0942

Nate Greenhas over 19 years of economic development experience and provides economic development services, strategic planning, public finance and incentives, and financial advisory services to communities, companies, developers, port authorities, and organizations.

Prior to joining the Montrose Group, LLC, Mr. Green was a Vice President, Public Finance for Piper Jaffray, was a manager at JobsOhio where he implemented and oversaw the JobsOhio Network and large projects across Ohio, served as Director of the Strategic Business Investment Division at the Ohio Department of Development (ODOD) where he oversaw the offices of business development, grants and tax incentives, financial incentives, and loans and servicing.  Mr. Green also served as Economic Development Director for the Pickaway Progress Partnership, an economic development corporation for Pickaway County, served as Corporate Finance Manager at the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority and began his career at the ODOD. 

Mr. Green earned a bachelor’s degree from Bowling Green State University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Ohio University.   

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88 East Broad Street
Columbus, OH 42315
Phone: (800) 345-2519

David B. Thompson, CPA, graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a Bachelor of Business Administration with a major in accounting.    He is a Certified Public Accountant and has over thirty five years of governmental experience. Most of that experience is with the office of Auditor of State dealing with complex accounting, budgetary and reporting issues of local governments in the State of Ohio. Dave also served as Chief Project Manager of the Southwest Region of Local Government Services for over twenty years. 

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7775 Walton Parkway
Suite 200
New Albany, Ohio 43054
Phone: 614-221-1216

David has extensive experience in litigating and negotiating claims for employers and their agents. He has successfully represented clients in various stages of lawsuits before administrative agencies as well as state and federal courts. David understands that each case and client is different and aims to get optimal results for everyone he serves.

He routinely represents clients in Workers’ Compensation matters at the administrative and litigation levels as well

David is an adjunct professor in the Otterbein University MBA and undergraduate Business, Accounting and Economics programs, where he teaches courses such as Ethical Leadership, Communications and Negotiations and the Legal Environment of Business. David also routinely presents to various organizations throughout Ohio on a variety of legal topics. In 2014, David was asked to assist the Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission Curriculum Committee in revising its Corrections Basic Training Inmate Rights & Civil Liability lesson plan.

Education:

• Capital University, J.D.
  • Member of the Law Review
• Otterbein College, B.A. in Business/Political Science (Pi Eta Sigma/Tau Pi Phi/Teleiotes National Honor Societies)
  • Mortar Board National Honor Society

Bar Admissions:

State of Ohio

State of South Carolina

United States Supreme Court

United States Court of Appeals

Sixth CircuitUnited States District Court

Southern District of Ohio

United States District Court

Northern District of Ohio

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2351 South Arlington Road
Akron, Ohio 44319
Phone: 330-785-7700

Robin L. Bell, Esq.is the Regional Manager for Clemans Nelson and Associates, Inc., for the Akron Regional Office.  Ms. Bell also serves on the Board of Directors for Clemans Nelson and has been with Clemans Nelson and Assoc. for over 20 years.  With over 30 years of experience in labor relations and human resources, Ms. Bell is experienced in labor negotiations, contract administration, labor arbitration, supervisory training, human resource management, policy development, and Equal Employment Opportunity, Ohio Civil Rights Commission, and FLSA compliance.  Ms. Bell serves as the Human Resource Director for the Company.  She began her career practicing labor and employment law in Los Angeles.  After she moved back home to Ohio served as staff attorney for a 460-employee public employer.  Ms. Bell is a graduate of the C. Blake McDowell School of Law at the University of Akron and received her undergraduate degree in Political Science from Ohio University.

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5701 Greendale Road
Johnston, Iowa 50131
Phone: 515-339-8321

Joined Sedgwick in November 2017 as an IT Risk Control Specialist III. Has 20 years experience in the information technology field.

With an educational background in computer network administration and criminal justice, Colette has a broad understanding of information security and is experienced working to enforce and enhance security measures for both public and private industries including government, human services, IT consulting, marketing, banking, insurance, pension, energy and manufacturing.

Some of Colette's prior experience has included:

1.) Information Security and Disaster Recovery

2.) Intrusion Detection and Incident Response

3.) Document and Records Management

4.) Server Administration, Imaging and Workflow

5 .) State and Federal Law and Regulation

Colette is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) with ISACA. She has also been A+ certified with CompTIA for20 years.