Conference Speakers

Kristi Tanner

Senior Managing Director at JobsOhio

Sean Logan

Government Relations Consultant at Sean Logan & Associates, LLC

Amy Sealtz

Director of Economic Development at The Putnam County CIC

Danielle Steinhauser

Community Development Specialist with CT Consultants

Craig Gossman

Principal & Owner of the Gossman Group

Leslie Wagner

Historian at The Dawes Arboretum

Tim Keith

Commercial Lender at Park National Bank

Chad Arfons

Attorney at McDonald Hopkins

David Mertz

Professor Emeritus at Belmont College

Betsy Bowen

Pastor at John Stewart Methodist Church

Todd Peetz

Director at Portage County Regional Planning Commission

Melinda Shah

Vice President & COO at Schooley Caldwell

Melinda Huntley

Executive Director of the Ohio Travel Association

Gordon Goldie

Partner at Plante Moran

Nathan Ware

Partner at BakerHostetler

Marie Hickle

Vice President of Tax Credit Investment Group at PNC Bank

Sara Bronin

Chair of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

Mariangela Pfister

Department Head and Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer for Technical Preservation Services

Lisa Brownell

Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credit Program Manager

Diamond Crowder

Underrepresented Communities Survey & National Register Manager

Barb Powers

Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer for Inventory and Registration

Ben Levenger

President of Downtown Redevelopment Services

Graham Kalbli

Principal at New Republic Architecture

Petra Knapp

Survey & National Register Manager

Abby Marshall

Survey and National Register Manager for Inventory and Registration

Carrie Simmons

Survey and National Register Technical Specialist in the Inventory and Registration

Mary Rody

Survey & National Register Reviews Manager

Casey Juday

Project Assistant for the Education and Support Services Department at the State Historic Preservation Office

Billy Friend

Chief of the Wyandotte Nation

David Robinson

Principal & Founder at The Montrose Group

Krista Horrocks

Department Manager of Education and Support Services at the State Historic Preservation Office

Justin Copenhaver

CEO & Founder of Urality

Jeff Hall

Mayor of Newark

Fred Ernest

Executive Director of Newark Development Partners

Brent Lane

Senior Executive in Residence at the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service at Ohio University

Carrie Manno

Single Family Tax Credit Section Chief at the Ohio Housing Finance Agency