Mr. Ronald B. Richard (Ronn) is the Chief Executive Officer and President of the Cleveland Foundation. Previously, Mr. Richard was the President and CEO of Stem Cell Preservation Technologies and the President of North American R&D for Panasonic. He served as Chairman of the Board of trustees of the International Biomedical Research Alliance, an academic joint venture among the NIH, Oxford University and Cambridge University. Mr. Richard has an M.A. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a B.A. in History from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Mr. Richard holds an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Notre Dame College and Baldwin Wallace University.