Career Roundtable Unites Students with Alumni

SimTax, Inc., is an accounting firm which specializes in obtaining Work Opportunity Tax Credits for employers. In addition to being responsible for new business development, Mr. Bilsky serves as a liaison between his clients and State and Federal government agencies.  He is on the board of NEON (National Employment Opportunity Network) which works to extend and expand employer tax credit programs.  In this role, he participates in many Congressional visits in Washington D.C., and in many district meetings with employers and their Senators and Congressmen.  Mr. Bilsky has been at SimTax since 1997, just one year after graduating from Miami University with a B.A. in Accountancy.

Ms. Campbell is licensed to practice law in the State of Ohio, the Federal Court for the Northern District of Ohio, and the United States Supreme Court.  She has also been certified to sit as second chair counsel in death penalty cases in the State of Ohio. Ms. Campbell started her legal career as an attorney with the Lake County Public Defenders Office in Painesville, Ohio.  Her tenure started in Juvenile Court and progressed into representing adult clients at the municipal court level.  She spent approximately 15 years in the felony division, representing clients on probation violation hearings, preliminary hearings, other evidentiary hearings and jury trials.  In this capacity she represented clients on offenses ranging from theft offenses to murder. Currently, Ms. Campbell is a Magistrate in the Lake County Domestic Relations Court for the Honorable Colleen A. Falkowski, where she presides over divorce and dissolution proceedings with a concentration on post decree matters.  She also hears cases that involve domestic violence civil protection orders. In addition to community volunteerism, Ms. Campbell has taught at Lake Erie College for several semesters as an adjunct professor. She attended Miami University (B.S. in Business) and Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law.

Mr. Hardiman is currently a Managing Director and Equity Research Analyst at Wedbush Securities, a Los Angeles based investment firm.  Mr. Hardiman has spent the last 13 years providing proprietary investment research to the world’s largest mutual funds, hedge funds, and pension funds, with a particular focus on the Leisure sector, including motorcycles, boats, off-road vehicles, cruise lines, amusement parks, video games, and casinos. He has been a featured guest on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Bloomberg Radio, and National Public Radio, and has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, U.S.A. Today, Investor’s Business Daily, The Financial Times, and The New York Times.  Mr. Hardiman has consistently been recognized among the best stock pickers and earnings forecasters in his industry, and has been awarded Best on the Street by The Wall Street Journal for Stock Picking and the #1 Earnings Estimator by The Financial Times. James holds an M.B.A. from the Darden School of Business and a B.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia.  Prior to business school, Hardiman was a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers.  He is also a CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) charter holder and a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).  Mr. Hardiman currently serves as Vice Chair on the Board of Directors of Youth Opportunities Unlimited (Y.O.U.), Ohio’s leading youth workforce development organization.  

 

 

Mr. Horsburgh was born and raised in Cleveland and graduated from the University of Denver with a BS/BA in Business Management and a minor in Business Ethics and Legal Studies. After running sporting events for SPIRE Institute and the Greater Cleveland Sports Commission, Horsburgh founded Spindrift Management in 2014. Spindrift works to engage & strengthen communities through the power of live events, and helps companies and organizations build and promote their brand with all facets of live event planning and execution. Current clients include Turner Sports, Brite Winter Festival, the Greater Cleveland Sports Commission, and Production Glue.  Outside of Spindrift Management, Mr. Horsburgh serves on Hawken School’s Alumni Board and the ad-hoc committee of Cleveland Leadership Center’s (i) Cleveland program. In 2014, he was recognized by the Cleveland Professional 20/30 Club as one of the top professionals under 35 years of age that are making a difference in the Cleveland area. Mr. Horsburgh resides in the Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood of Cleveland, supports the Indians, Cavs, Browns and Vikings, and enjoys volleyball, golf, traveling and being on Lake Erie.

Hawken alumnus, Dale Kates, is an orthodontist with his own practice (five locations).  Dr. Kates is very entrepreneurial and will address both the technical and business aspects of his profession.  You will find out how much education it takes to become a dentist and orthodontist as well as a myriad of skills that might lead you to this incredible profession. After graduating from Hawken, Dr. Kates attended Earlham College, where he received a B.A.  He then received his D.D.S. from Howard University, School of Dentistry, as well as a certificate in Orthodontics from Howard University.  Dr. Kates is proud of both his professional life and volunteer life.  He has received numerous honors and awards from the Orthodontic Centers of America and Howard University.

 

Mr. Lintern serves as the President of Lintern Corporation, a fifth generation family business based in Mentor, Ohio and is the world leader in Severe and Heavy Duty Air Conditioning.  Since starting at Lintern in 2006 he has worked in the sales, manufacturing and finance departments.  Prior to joining Lintern Corporation, Lintern served as regional sales manager and then production for maax, a start-up apparel company based in Manchester, New Hampshire, and worked in the accounting department of a law firm based in Charleston, South Carolina. Lintern is a graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder, with a B.S. in Accounting.  Lintern is an active coach for Hawken School’s varsity football team and member of the Alumni Board since 2012. 

 

Dr. Perla has been practicing ophthalmology in Northeast Ohio since 1995. His private practice is divided between comprehensive ophthalmology and pediatric ophthalmology and adult strabisumus. He earned a degree in biomedical engineering with a minor in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984. Following a studentship at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy, he attended the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, graduating in 1990. He completed his internship and residency in ophthalmology at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio and then did a fellowship in pediatric ophthalmology and adult strabismus with Dr. Zane Pollard at the Scottish-Rite Children's Medical Center in Atlanta, Georgia. He is currently a clinical assistant professor at the Case/U.H. Medical Center. Dr. Perla has served as President of both the Cleveland Ophthalmological Society and the Ohio Ophthalmological Society.  He is currently a Councilor for the State of Ohio for the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He donates his time to examine patients for Prevent Blindness Ohio and is also a member of Hawken’s Alumni Board.

After receiving his undergraduate degree from Yale University and his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Dr. Ricchetti completed his internship and residency in orthopaedic surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. During his residency training, Dr. Ricchetti also completed a year of dedicated research in the McKay Orthopaedic Research Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. Following residency, he completed a fellowship in shoulder and elbow surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, the Rothman Institute. Dr. Ricchetti's interests in shoulder pathology include joint replacement and arthroscopy, rotator cuff tears and other tendon and ligament problems, sports injuries, and trauma. Dr. Ricchetti is very active in shoulder and elbow research and has authored a number of publications and book chapters, including presenting at regional and national conferences.

Mr. Rogoff is a manager of Corporate Development and Planning for Eaton Corporation, a leading global power management company headquartered in Cleveland. In this role, he helps develop Eaton’s corporate strategy, assists with the company’s merger & acquisition (M&A) activity, and runs Eaton’s long-term financial forecast model. Prior to Eaton, Mr. Rogoff worked in Strategic Planning at Southern California Edison, developing strategies to address clean energy initiatives such as energy storage, greenhouse gas policy, and the proliferation of solar energy. He received his MBA at UNC Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School and his undergraduate degree in Philosophy from the University of Colorado, Boulder.  Mr. Rogoff started his career working as a television producer for an advertising agency in Los Angeles, CA, leading the development of TV commercials for companies such as Honda and Acura. Mr. Rogoff currently resides in Cleveland Heights with his wife (also a Hawken graduate) and two children.

 

An alumnus of Hawken (Class of 1990), and Northwestern University (Class of 1994), where he earned a B.A. in Art History, Mr. Shaheen is a Cleveland based art dealer and gallery owner.  Specializing in the private sale/resale of artworks in all media by important Post-War and Contemporary artists, with a focus on works by significant young and mid-career artists of the past 25-30 years. Shaheen buys, sells and maintains a large and varied inventory of paintings, drawings, sculptures and original prints and multiples by well-known artists like Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, Ed Ruscha, Luc Tuymans, Chuck Close, John Currin and Christopher Wool, among many others.  In addition to working with other dealers / galleries around world, Shaheen educates and advises private collectors and clients, helping them to build collections of lasting personal and historical significance.  SHAHEEN LLC, the downtown Cleveland gallery space that he has operated for over 15 years, mounts approximately 4-5 exhibitions per year.  Over the years, the gallery has done exhibitions with many young and mid-career artists early in their careers, who have since gone on to achieve broad international prominence.  

Shames began her career as a litigation associate at Carlin and Newton and then Attorney-in-Charge (Civil Division) at the Legal Aid Society of Westchester County. After nearly two years as an Administrative Law Judge for NYC Department of Finance, Shames found her way back to Cleveland, working as a Planned Giving Associate at the Cleveland Museum of Art for a year. Since 2000, she has been with CSU as the Founding Director for the Center for Arts and Innovation. In her role, Shames produces programming for the university which brings over 1,800 annually to attend innovative, cross disciplinary and world class offerings in the arts, humanities, business and technology. In her position, she additionally produces an annual Arts Summit and represents the University on university and community wide planning (like CSU’s 50^th Anniversary; Trinity Cathedral; Young Audiences of NE Ohio integration of arts into the Cleveland School District). She is also the Board Chair for the Ohio chapter of the National Endowment for the Humanities.  Shames attended Vassar College and graduated with a B.A., majoring in history and minoring in music. She went on to graduate with a J.D. from New York Law School.

Dr. Tien currently is an Assistant Professor and practicing pediatric psychologist in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at University Hospitals. In this position, she assesses and treats youth aged 0-18 years on an outpatient basis and teaches courses for child psychiatry fellows. Her area of specialization is pediatric psychology, also known as child health psychology. Dr. Tien is a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of Ohio. She earned her B.A. in Psychology at Brown University in 1997 and a Ph.D. in child clinical psychology at West Virginia University in 2004. Dr. Tien completed both her pre-doctoral clinical internship and fellowship in pediatric psychology at Brown University’s Training Consortium partnered with Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence, R.I. Dr. Tien received the David’s Book Prize for Outstanding Promise in Clinical Psychology as an undergraduate at Brown University a HERF scholarship to WVU for outstanding graduate applicant, and was nominated for the American Psychological Association’s Dissertation Research Award as a graduate student at WVU. She is an author on a number of peer-reviewed publications in her area of expertise and one published book chapter. Additionally, she has been Co-Investigator on one NIH-funded grant in the area of pediatric asthma. Dr. Tien enjoys public speaking and has given several invited guest presentations in pediatric psychology.

 

Ms. Zeltner is a journalist at The Plain Dealer, Ohio's largest newspaper. She has been a reporter since 2003, and has worked primarily on the paper's medical team. She specializes in writing stories about public health, and how growing up in poverty can affect health over the lifespan. She’s the recent recipient of the New York Academy of Medicine’s Urban Journalism award, as well as an All-Ohio Excellence in Journalism Award from the Press Club of Cleveland. Ms. Zeltner is a 1997 graduate of Hawken School, and graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in Environmental Studies and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.