LCIC Board of Directors
Executive Committee
Joseph H. Zerbey, IV, Chairman
Mr. Zerbey is currently the President and General Manager for The Blade, having joined the organization in July of 2004. He is an experienced newspaper veteran who spent 18 years with Media News Group where he served as President &CEO of the Newspaper Agency Corporation (Media One Corporation) which publishes the Salt Lake Tribune & Deseret Morning News. He was also President & CEO of the York Newspaper Company, York, Pa. from 1994 until his promotion to Salt Lake City. Zerbey started his newspaper career at the Bristol (CT) Press in advertising sales and remained there for 25 years, the last eight of which he was its publisher. Zerbey is the fourth generation of a newspaper family from Pottsville, PA where his great-grandfather founded the Daily Evening Republican in 1884. Zerbey is a 1965 graduate of Syracuse University and served for three and one-half years in the United States Army, 1966-69.
He currently serves on the executive committee of the Ohio Newspaper Association board of trustees and is a former member of the board of governors of NENA, PNA and the Northwest Publishers Association. Zerbey also serves as Chairman of the board of the Ohio Coalition for Open Government.
His civic activities include: Chairman of the Executive Board, Lucas County Improvement Corporation (LCIC); Member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Toledo; Vice President of the Board of the Toledo Club; Member of the Business Engagement and Leadership Council, College of Business Administration, University of Toledo; Member board Toledo Zoo Foundation; Vice President-Board BOYER-Riverfront, S.S. Willis B. Boyer, museum ship; Member of the board Toledo Symphony (finance committee); Member of the Board, Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce; Member Board of Trustees, Jamie Farr LGPA Classic Tournament; Received the Silver Beaver award from the BSA for outstanding service to youth; James E. West Fellow, Boy Scouts of America; Paul Harris Fellow - Rotary International - Rotary Club of Toledo, International Committee. ; Holds a 32nd Degree in Free Masonry, Zenobia Shrine, and Frederick-Franklin Lodge #14. Served as Chair, President, Board member and campaign chair of many charitable, non-profit organizations including the United Way, Boy Scouts of America, economic development foundations, Rotary, symphonies, Chambers of Commerce, etc.
He and his wife, Barbara, have a son, daughter and 5 grandchildren.
Joseph Rideout, Secretary
Joseph A. Rideout received his B.A. from Dartmouth College, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. from The University of Virginia School of Law. He is a partner in the Toledo, Ohio based law firm of Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP. His principal areas of practice are real estate finance and development, construction law, land use planning and business law, and he is currently the administrator of the firm's real estate practice group.
In the real estate law and land use and zoning law categories, Mr. Rideout for many years has been selected one of the Best Lawyers in America®. Mr. Rideout was also named the Best Lawyers 2009 Toledo Real Estate Lawyer of the Year, and has received the Toledo Business Journal's Who's Who in Area Law recognition for 2009 and 2010.
Mr. Rideout is a member of the Toledo, Ohio State and American Bar Associations. He is a member of the board of directors and executive committee, and secretary, of the Lucas County Improvement Corporation; a board member of the Toledo-Lucas County Convention and Visitors Bureau, Inc.; a member of the board of trustees and executive committee of Toledo Cultural Arts Center, Inc./Valentine Theatre; a board member and the immediate past chairman of the board of trustees of St. John's Jesuit High School of Toledo, Ohio; a board member and the immediate past chairman of the board of trustees of the St. John's Jesuit High School Foundation; a member of the Lucas County Workforce Investment Board; and the chairman of the board of trustees of International Samaritan, f/k/a Central American Ministries. He has also served on many other charitable and civic organizations.
Rashmi Agnihotri, Treasurer
Rashmi Agnihotri currently serves as the Director for Corporate Strategy at The Andersons Inc., (Nasdaq: ANDE) leading and orchestrating the corporate and business unit strategies as well as assisting with the M&A efforts across the company. Prior to this assignment she spent approximately 10 years in the Finance and Treasury department of The Andersons Inc. , where she was a primary liaison for the company’s banking relationships, credit facilities and cash management. She also managed the employee benefit plans ( pension plan, 401k) there and is currently a pension committee fiduciary of the same. Before arriving in the United States of America, Rashmi worked for about 6 years in various managerial and trading positions in the financial services industry in New Delhi, India as well as a summer stint at the currency options trading desk at Fuji Bank in Tokyo, Japan. Throughout her 20 years’ professional career, Rashmi has maintained a penchant for producing superior quality work which has won her many accolades including the ‘CEO’ awards both in India and in the USA.
Rashmi is an active member of the local community and currently serves on the board of West Side Montessori Center and the Cultural Committee of the Hindu Temple of Toledo, besides the LCIC. Previously she served as an executive trustee and Chair of the Investment Committee for the Medical University of Ohio Foundation (subsequently the University of Toledo Foundation). Rashmi got her MBA (Finance) from University of Texas at Austin; MBA (General Business Administration) from University of Lucknow, India and her Bachelor degree in Electronics from University of Delhi, India. Nature-loving and a voracious reader, Rashmi lives in Sylvania with her husband Atul, and their two sons Raaghov (10) and Kayshov (5).
Keith Burwell
Keith Burwell is president of the Toledo Community Foundation, a position he has held since February 2004. He came to Toledo from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he was Executive Vice President of the Triangle Community Foundation.
Keith has 20 years of philanthropic experience including leading and directing operations, program, development and communications teams. He currently oversees an annual grants program averaging $8 million in grants and an annual asset development program averaging $11 million in new assets.
He serves on several national nonprofit boards as well as currently serving on the Council on Foundation's Philanthropy Research Committee and Community Foundation Technology Steering Committee.
He graduated from Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina. Keith received a master's degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. He is married to Susan Burwell. They have two adult children: a son, Blake, and a daughter, Candace.
Derik Gant
Derick Gant learned early on that commitment; hard work and integrity are keys to accomplishing your goals. These traditional principles were instilled as an athlete winning high school state championships and a college football conference championship, and continue today as an experienced, hands-on financial strategist committed to one-on-one, personal relationships with clients. He is an expert at helping investors understand how money works and how to make it work for you. He has shared his expertise through numerous television appearances and newspaper and magazine features. Derick also has lectured extensively on estate and retirement planning issues.
Gary Yunker
Gary has over 40 years of experience in commercial real estate including property management, commercial industrial brokerage, development, corporate real estate director, leasing and sale of properties, and construction management activities related to renovation of existing and development of new projects.
Gary started his career in 1970 as property manager for a Toledo based real estate holding company with over 1,000,000 sf of commercial, industrial and multi-family properties. In 1973, he entered the commercial/industrial brokerage business and ultimately become a partner in the firm. In 1983, he became real estate director of a national restaurant chain with company and franchise operations in over 20 states. In 1987, he became a partner in a development firm in Charlotte, North Carolina, with focus on grocery anchored shopping centers. This opportunity led to becoming Vice President of Development for a regional development firm, managing a regional office in Cincinnati, Ohio, with development/management responsibilities for 16 Wal-Mart anchored shopping centers, ranging in size from 125,000 sf to 350,000 sf in a four-state area.
In 1993, Gary became affiliated with Bostleman Development, in Holland, Ohio, as a partner, with responsibilities for site selection and procurement, approvals and entitlements, leasing and construction coordination. A portfolio of over 35 projects in five states was developed during a 13-year period. Gary was also Project Manager for a large regional developer in the Midwest with duties that included site acquisition, government approvals, tenant procurement and property management, including engineering and construction activities of redevelopment and new commercial projects.
Professional/Community Affiliations: Board Member of Lucas County Improvement Corp, and member of International Council of Shopping Centers and Springfield Twp. Planning Commission; Board Member of Toledo Area Humane Society and Ronald McDonald House of Northwest Ohio.
Mary Jo Waldock
Mary Jo Waldock is Associate Vice President of the University of Toledo’s Innovation Enterprises as well as Executive Director of the UT Innovation Enterprises Corporation, a charitable support organization. In these roles, she works with a team focusing on a broad range of innovation-related initiatives to expand entrepreneurial opportunities for UT’s faculty and student innovators and to link UT knowledge resources with regional economic development efforts. UT engages with economic development agencies at the federal, state and regional level and provides a robust innovation environment through strategic investment in several areas.
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Baldemar Velásquez
The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), AFL-CIO, is a union of migrant farmworkers in the eastern United States founded by Baldemar Velásquez. Baldemar is a highly respected national and international leader not only in the farm labor movement, but also in the Latino and immigrant rights movements. Baldemar was born in 1947, and grew up in a migrant farmworker family based in the Rio Grande valley of Texas.Incensed by the injustices suffered by his family and other farmworkers. Baldemar founded the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) in 1967. In 1978, Baldemar led over 2,000 FLOC workers on strike, the largest in agricultural history of Midwest, who demanded union recognition and a multi-party bargaining agreement. Since most FLOC members are immigrant workers, they have called upon their union to help defend their rights. FLOC has thus become a grass-roots leader in the immigrant rights movement, organizing the immigrant community to defend their rights, building a broad network in the larger society to support immigrants in realizing their rights, and advocating policies to ensure the human, civil, and working rights of immigrants.
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