Officers and Directors
Mary-Alice Frank, Chief Executive Officer
Mary-Alice Frank has spent the majority of her career with the American Red Cross. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in English from Hillsdale College, and a Master's Degree in Business from Baldwin-Wallace College. She is a 2000 Kaleidoscope 'Women Who Give Back' honoree, a 2001 graduate of Leadership Cleveland and a 2002 winner of Northern Ohio Live's Top Rainmakers. In 2003, she received the prestigious PRSA John Hill award, given annually to the Greater Cleveland CEO who best exhibits outstanding understanding of and support for communications.
A board of directors, representing a diverse range of business and community leaders, governs the Greater Cleveland Red Cross.
Richard W. Pogue, Chairman, Board of Directors
Richard W. Pogue was named Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Red Cross of Greater Cleveland in October 2009. He joined the Board in 2007 and serves on the Development Committee, Executive Committee and Finance Committee.
Richard W. Pogue is Advisor (i.e., full-time independent consultant) at Jones Day in Cleveland.
In 1957, he joined the law firm Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis in Cleveland as an Associate and became a Partner in 1961. Over the years, his primary fields of practice were antitrust, corporate takeover work and commercial arbitration/mediation. In 1984, he became Managing Partner of the firm, by then known as Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue. During his nine years in that position, the firm grew from 335 to 1,250 lawyers and from five domestic to 20 worldwide offices and became the second largest U.S. law firm. In 1994, Mr. Pogue retired from Jones Day and became Senior Advisor to Dix & Eaton, a Cleveland-based regional public relations firm.
In 2004, Mr. Pogue returned to Jones Day in his present capacity, where he assists the Firm's Managing Partner and its Cleveland Office Partner-in-Charge and others in client development, special projects and civic engagement.
Over the years, Mr. Pogue has chaired many major organizations in the civic area in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio, including The Cleveland Foundation, Business Volunteers Unlimited, University Hospitals Health System, the Greater Cleveland Growth Association, The City Club of Cleveland, the Presidents' Council Foundation and the United Way Campaign in 1989. He was the principal organizer in 1997 of the Regional Business Council, the predecessor of Team NEO. He also served as Director of a number of for-profit corporations over the years, including Continental Airlines, TRW and KeyCorp.
In the health care field, he has been a Trustee of University Hospitals of Cleveland since 1975, having served as Chairman of the Board from 1994 to 1999. He is currently Chairman of the UHHS Board Governance & Education Committee and serves on several other UHHS committees.
In 2005, Inside Business Magazine said of him: "Pogue is this region's consummate insider. There isn't much that goes on in this town, or this region, for that matter, that Pogue hasn't been consulted on, is aware of, or approved of."
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