Past Business Executives of the Year
2007Toby Cosgrove
Cleveland Clinic
2006Glenn Renwick
The Progressive Corp.
2005Christopher M. Connor
Sherwin-Williams
2004David A. Daberko
National City Corporation
2003K. Michael Benz
United Way Services
2002Kent W. Clapp
Medical Mutual Ohio
2001William B. Summers, Jr.
McDonald Investments, Inc.
A KeyCorp Company
A KeyCorp Company
2000Richard W. Pogue
Dix & Eaton
1999Farah M. Walters
University Hospitals Health Systems
1998Irving I. Stone/ Morry Weiss
American Greetings, Corporation
1997Alex Machaskee
The Plain Dealer
1996William N. Hulett
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
1995Edward Brandon
National City Corporation
1994Mark H. McCormack
International Management Group
1993Joseph T. Gorman
TRW Inc.
1992Robert Gillespie
Society Corporation/ Society National Bank
1991Morton L. Mandel
Premier Industrial Corporation
1990James R. Stover
Eaton Corporation
1989James M. Biggar
Nestle Enterprises, Inc./ The Stouffer Corporation
1988Robert B. Horton
BP America, Inc.
1987J. Richard Kelso
The East Ohio Gas Company
1986John G. Breen
The Sherwin-Williams Company
1985Roy H. Holdt
White Consolidated Industries, Inc.
1984Arthur B. Modell
Cleveland Browns Football
1983M. Brock Weir
Ameritrust Corporation
1982William E. MacDonald
The Ohio Bell Telephone Company
1981Ruben F. Mettler
TRW Inc.
1980William J. De Lancey
Republic Steel Corporation
1979Claude M. Blair
National City Bank
1978Francis A. Coy
The May Company
1977Charles E. Spahr
The Standard Oil Company (Ohio)
1976Thomas Vail
The Plain Dealer
1975Herbert E. Strawbridge
The Higbee Company
1974Semon E. Knudsen
White Motor Corporation
1973E.M. De Windt
The Eaton Corporation
1972G.J. Tankersley
The East Ohio Gas Company
1971Francis A. Coy
The May Company
1970J.G. Bell, Jess A. Bell
Bonne Bell, Inc.
1969Hon. Carl B. Stokes
City of Cleveland
1968George J. Grabner
The Weatherhead Company
1967Ralph M. Besse
Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company
1966James J. Nance
Central National Bank of Cleveland
1965Randall M. Ruhlman
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce
1964Louis B. Seltzer
The Cleveland Press
1963Harold T. Clark
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Fund
1962Elmer L. Lindseth
Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company
