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7124 West Central Ave
Toledo, OH 43617
Phone: (419) 842-5377

Since 2001, Michael has been offering customized fixed income investment strategies to Institutions and public entities including cities, counties, and school districts in the Midwest.  Bringing with him in-depth market and product knowledge, he focuses on cash management solutions with investment results that seek preservation, liquidity, and return.  Michael focuses on seamless implementation of fixed income markets to help meet clients’ unique needs while delivering value-added service and analysis.  Michael has a B.S. from Miami University (Oxford) and an MBA (finance) from The University of Toledo.  He resides in West Toledo with his wife Kelly and his daughters Delaney (13) and Mia (11).

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191 West Nationwide Blvd
Suite 300
Columbus, OH 43215
Phone: (614) 233-5400

Ed Cavezza is a partner with the law firm of Dinsmore & Shohl LLP.  He focuses on municipal finance law and serves as bond counsel to many Ohio cities, counties and school districts.  Ed has represented more than one out of every four of Ohio's school districts.

Much of Mr. Cavezza's contact with Ohio school districts involves preparation of tax levy proceedings, energy conservation borrowings, lease purchase financings and voted bond issues.  Ed assists with dozens of Ohio school pre election proceedings each year.

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250 E Broad St 9th floor
Columbus, OH 43215
Phone: 614) 222-8686

Jennifer Tomlin is a partner at the law firm Scott Scriven LLP.  Ms. Tomlin’s practice focuses on representing school districts on education law issues.  Ms. Tomlin handles various employment and school-related issues including employee and student discipline, criminal records issues, public records and meetings, employment discrimination, ethics, special education issues and property valuation matters.  She negotiates collective bargaining agreements as well as handles grievances, arbitrations and statutory termination proceedings.  Ms. Tomlin has represented school districts in proceedings before administrative agencies such as the State Employment Relations Board, the Office for Civil Rights, the Ohio Civil Rights Commission, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as well as various county boards of revision and the Ohio State Board of Tax Appeals.

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4900 Key Tower
127 Public Square
Cleveland, OH 44114
Phone: (216) 479-8331

Richard D. Manoloff is experienced as bond counsel in general obligation and special obligation bond financings and as general counsel for Ohio political subdivisions, particularly school districts.

His representation includes counseling public sector clients regarding financings, public records, open meetings, real estate, construction, elections and tax levies. He is frequently invited to make public presentations on these topics. As a co-author, Mr. Manoloff has contributed to Thomson/West’s Ohio School Law.

Mr. Manoloff is listed in The Best Lawyers in America.

Mr. Manoloff is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Children’s Museum of Cleveland, past president of the Board of Trustees of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Foundation, former member of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Legal Services Association (which provides direct legal services to the poor of Southeastern Ohio and supports legal aid societies statewide), former chair of the city of Lakewood Community Governance Task Force (which rewrote the city’s charter approved by the voters in 2000), former member of the Rocky River Charter Review Commission, past president of the Board of Trustees of the Cleveland Association of Phi Beta Kappa, 2003 recipient of the Crain’s Cleveland Business 40 Under 40 distinction, member of the Cleveland Bridge Builders class of 2002, and member of Leadership Cleveland’s class of 2006. 

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4900 Key Tower, 127 Public Sq
Cleveland, OH 44114
Phone: (216) 479-8500

Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, in the practice area of Public Finance Law, an honor based on an exhaustive peer-review process.

Received the highest ranking for legal ability and professional ethics from the Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings.

Fellow, American College of Bond Counsel

John S. Larson has focused on public law and finance for more than 40 years. John’s practice encompasses many types of public finance issues, including acting as bond counsel in both general obligation and revenue bond and note financings for Ohio school districts, municipalities and counties, and serving as underwriter’s counsel for national and regional underwriters of tax-exempt bond issues by Ohio issuers. He also serves as one of Squire Patton Boggs’ ethics partners. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 2010 and was inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Bond Counsel in 2017.

John has led the firm’s representation of clients such as the City of Toledo, Toledo City School District, Lakewood City School District and Cuyahoga County as bond counsel and special counsel for many years. He provides general counsel for many other Ohio political subdivisions in school finance, competitive bidding and contracting, real property, election, open meeting and public records, income, property and sales tax, intergovernmental agreement, municipal charter, economic development and legislative matters. He is also experienced in drafting state legislation and proposed state constitutional amendments on behalf of the firm’s clients.

John is a member of the American and Ohio State Bar Associations and the National Association of Bond Lawyers. He is also a past chair of the board of trustees of Youth Opportunities Unlimited.

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155 E Broad Street
Columbus, OH 43215
Phone: (614) 463-7553

Kevin M. Grobelny is Senior Vice President and Public Finance Relationship Manager for the Northern Ohio markets for PNC Bank. 

In his current position, he works primarily with Higher Education, Non-Profit and Public Sector clients in the Cleveland, Akron, Toledo and Youngstown, Ohio Markets.  Grobelny has 21 years of banking experience spanning public finance, asset based and middle market lending areas.  He started as a corporate associate with National City Bank.  Previous to this, he spent 2 years working as a legal assistant with Squire Sanders and Dempsey in Washington D.C., focused on discovery and analysis relating to failed savings and loans.

Grobelny earned his Bachelor’s degree from Bowling Green State University and MBA from The Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. 

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155 E Broad Street
Columbus, OH 43215
Phone: (614) 463-7553

Laura DiFilippo joined the Ohio Public Finance Group in February 2014 after completing PNC’s Corporate and Institutional Banking Development Program.  During her time in the program, Laura managed a portfolio in PNC’s Energy Group in Pittsburgh. In her current role, Laura evaluates and executes direct purchase agreements and other debt financing solutions across multiple industries including higher education, local and state municipalities and not-for-profit organizations.