ENTREPRENEURS IN RESIDENCE

Jim Anderson
Partner
Edgewater Consulting
Provides management assistance to start-up and early-stage growth companies in operations, personnel selection, and financial planning and capital formation.

Phil Bessler
Director, Business Clinic
Baldwin-Wallace College
Responsible for both teaching and program development in the area of free enterprise. Established B-W’s Business Clinic for entrepreneurs and small business owners, utilizing over 30 years of industry experience, which included senior management positions in industrial manufacturing businesses.

Bill Braun
President
Custom Rubber Corporation
Purchased Custom Rubber Corporation in 1980 with a leveraged buyout. For the past 25 years has been actively involved in managing this Cleveland manufacturer of specialty designed elastomeric components.

Terrence Brizz
President
Galaxy Balloons Incorporated
Recipient of the 1997 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year, 1998 State of Ohio Entrepreneur of the Year and inducted into the Ohio Promotional Products Association Hall of Fame in 2004. Presently serves on numerous boards of for profit and non-profit organizations and is an adjunct professor at Baldwin-Wallace College Business School.

Eric Fingerhut
Director of Economic Development Education and Entrepreneurship
Baldwin-Wallace College
Draws on his extensive regional economic development, not-for-profit and governmental experience to involve students from the MBA in Entrepreneurship program, assisting them to connect with opportunities for entrepreneurial experiences in Northeast Ohio. Participates with and enhances regional entrepreneurs and small business owners.

Stephen Hotchkiss
Partner
Management Anchors, Ltd.
Former founding president of Citizens Community Bank, Pocatello, ID. Currently, teaches economics at Tri-C and is Secretary of Business Advisors of Cleveland, a not-for-profit advisor to start-up and struggling businesses

Dan Kleps
Consultant
In his volunteer capacity, brings over 25 years of business experience as an entrepreneur and as a fast-track executive with AT&T. He has an MBA in strategy and marketing and has taught college-level courses in e-commerce, operating systems and marketing.

David Kornbluth
The Coral Company
An adjunct professor at B-W teaching an MBA topical seminar on business plan development, with over 10-years of capital markets and investment banking experience. Currently, he is Director of Development at The Coral Company.

David Lazar
Scherzer International
Managing Director of Scherzer International, a provider of background investigations world-wide for investors, deal makers, lenders and professional firms.

Gabe Rosica
Advisory Partner
Glengary LLC
Retired Executive VP of Keithley Instruments, Inc., Solon, OH, an electronic measurement equipment manufacturer. Previously COO of Bailey Controls, Wickliffe, OH; President & CEO of MODCOMP, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; and VP/GM of the Foxboro Company, Foxboro, MA.

Christine Stadler
Business Development Solutions, Inc
Founder of Business Development Solutions, Inc. Has more than 20 years of experience in the marketing arena, especially working with a broad base of technology-oriented companies.

John E. Warfel
President
Westfield Group
Heads up one of the largest U.S. insurance groups; individually and corporately, significant sponsor and supporter of economic and advisory capabilities of the Baldwin-Wallace Business and entrepreneurship programs.