SMART BUSINESS NETWORK - Key Persons


Adam Burroughs

Job Titles:
  • Senior Editor

Angie Berresford - VP of Sales

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Sales

Dan Pender

Job Titles:
  • Associate Producer

Dana Evans

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member since

Danielle Catteau

Job Titles:
  • Director of Events

Dr. Linda Lehmkuhl - CEO

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • CEO, MedVet Medical & Cancer Centers for Pets
Lehmkuhl joined MedVet Medical & Cancer Centers for Pets in 2000, leaving her role as an academic cardiologist at The Ohio State University. In private practice at a specialty animal hospital, she had another aha moment, and her focus shifted to referral partners. Lehmkuhl became CEO in January 2019, as Schertel moved into the executive chairman role and MedVet hired a president with the business knowledge to help the organization scale. With the transition, Lehmkuhl hired an executive coach.

Dr. Tomislav Mihaljevic - CEO, President

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • President
  • Chairman of the Clinic 's Board of Directors, Is Confident Mihaljevic Is Up to the Challenge of Leading the Organization into the Future
  • Visionary Leader
Dr. Tomislav Mihaljevic recognizes the incredible responsibility that comes with being a cardiothoracic surgeon. It's a profession in which his patients quite literally put their lives in his hands. But after performing roughly 4,000 surgeries in his career, Mihaljevic has learned that the mind is perhaps an even more powerful instrument than a surgeon's hands.

Dustin S. Klein

Job Titles:
  • Chief Content Officer

Fred Koury - CEO, President

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • President

J. David Heller

Job Titles:
  • President and CEO, the NRP Group

Janet K. Valore - VP of Sales

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of Sales

Jill Brown

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant
  • Office Administrator

Jim Mericsko

Job Titles:
  • Creative Director

Joanna Reese - VP of Sales

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Sales

John Lotenero

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Event Management

Kathy Deutsch

Job Titles:
  • Controller

Katie Janoch - VP of Sales

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of Sales

Lee Koury - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner

Lisa Dore

Job Titles:
  • Events Manager

Meredith Rankin

Job Titles:
  • Senior Events Manager

Michael Marzec - CEO, COO

Job Titles:
  • COO
  • Managing Partner

Morton Mandel

Morton Mandel, who passed away in 2019 at 98 years old, was one of his great mentors. He says he learned from Mandel that it's all about "the who." Mandel was mentoring Heller around the time Alan Scott and T. Richard Bailey, who joined the company soon after the Glenville project was done, retired, leaving Heller and a group of senior leaders to continue the mission. "And that's when I was able to take my learning, the mentoring, these great leaders that I have followed, that I was able to put a lot of this into motion," Heller says.

Robert E. Rich Jr.

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Clinic 's Board of Directors, Is Confident Mihaljevic Is Up to the Challenge of Leading the Organization into the Future
"Dr. Mihaljevic brings a depth of experience, first as an innovative, world-class surgeon and more recently as a hospital executive focused on health care quality and safety, patient experience and business strategy," Rich says. Robert E. Rich Jr., chair of the clinic's board of directors, is confident Mihaljevic is up to the challenge of leading the organization into the future.

Sue Ostrowski

Job Titles:
  • Content Director

Suzi Linn

Job Titles:
  • Events Manager

Ted Turner

Job Titles:
  • Business Owners
Enter Turner's assistant's office and you'll see more than 100 magazine covers featuring Turner from over the years adorning the walls. And from there, enter Turner's own office - dim, as the lights are off to conserve energy - and you can't help but notice the wall full of honorary degrees behind his desk and further evidence of his achievements and interests. It's all a legacy of a life of entrepreneurship and innovation by the man who pioneered 24-hour news by founding CNN and has been involved in many different business ventures over the years, including starting the Ted's Montana Grill restaurant chain. Beyond his business achievements, he's won 180 sailing trophies and is one the largest individual landowners in the United States with approximately 2 million acres of personal and ranch land. He's also passionate about furthering clean-energy initiatives, and he gave a $1 billion gift to the United Nations through the United Nations Foundation, which he created to support goals and objectives of the U.N. Turner's accomplishments could take up pages, but constrained by word counts, simply put: Ted Turner is a legend most business owners would do just about anything to sit down and talk to, but when it comes down to it, he can summarize his success in just a few main keys. "One common thread is hard work, and another is careful consideration and thinking through what it was that I wanted to do and going through the mental exercises of what could go wrong and being prepared for that as much as possible," Turner says. "You can't predict completely what's going to happen, but you can have a plan and think it through as carefully as you can, and then once you make the decision, after very careful thought - or this is the way I did it - when I did decide to move forward, then move forward with great speed."

Umberto P. Fedeli

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Clinic 's Board of Directors
  • President and CEO at the Fedeli Group

Wendy Armon

Job Titles:
  • Senior Art Director