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James M. Anderson is chairman of the board of CincyTech. He has been president and CEO of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center since 1996. He has been instrumental in shaping the extraordinary growth at the medical center over the last 13 years.

His appointment as president and CEO followed 20 years of service to the Cincinnati Children's board of trustees, including four years as chairman. Prior to joining the staff of Cincinnati Children's, he was a partner in the general corporate department at Taft, Stettinius & Hollister and president of U.S. operations at Xomox Corp., a publicly traded manufacturer of specialty process controls.  

After serving many years as an independent director, he was appointed chairman of the board of the National Stock Exchange in October 2007.  He joined the Board of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in May 2007. In January 2005, Mr. Anderson was appointed chairman of the Board of the Cincinnati Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Further, in July 2005, he was appointed to a national advisory commission that helped identify reforms necessary to stabilize and strengthen the Medicaid system. From 2003–2008, he served on the Ohio Third Frontier Advisory Board, which provides strategic planning for investments administered by the Ohio Third Frontier Commission.

He has held other director or officer positions for numerous corporations, including Gateway Investment Trust, River City Insurance Limited, and the UNIFI Companies. His extensive civic involvement includes service to the Dan Beard Council of the Boy Scouts of America, Cincinnati Museum of Natural History and the College of Mount St. Joseph. In addition to serving on the board of the United Way of Greater Cincinnati, Mr. Anderson served as its 2006 Campaign Chair.

Mr. Anderson is a graduate of Yale University (1963) and Vanderbilt School of Law (1966). He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in Finance and Industry.

Gregory H. Williams serves as the 27th president of the University of Cincinnati, one of the nation’s top 25 public research universities. He began his tenure at UC on November 1, 2009.

Prior to his arrival at UC, Dr. Williams served as president of The City College of New York (CCNY) for eight years and worked as a university administrator/faculty member for over 30 years, serving in a variety of posts at The George Washington University, The University of Iowa and The Ohio State University. Just Prior to becoming CCNY’s president, he was Dean of the Law School and Carter C. Kissell Professor of Law at The Ohio State University.

He is best known for his award-winning and best-selling memoir, Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black. As a result of his autobiography, he has been featured on a number of national programs including “Oprah,” “Dateline NBC with Tom Brokaw,” “Larry King Live,” ABC's “Nightline with Ted Koppel” and “Fresh Air with Terri Gross” of National Public Radio.

President Williams has earned five degrees, including a JD and PhD from George Washington University, and he holds four honorary doctorates. Early in his career, Dr. Williams was a Deputy Sheriff, and he later worked as an aide to a U.S. Senator.

Dr. Williams currently serves on the board of the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber of Commerce, Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation (3CDC), Uptown Consortium, and United Way of Greater Cincinnati. He is also a member of the Cincinnati Business Committee and the Strive Executive Committee.

Ellen van der Horst joined the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber as president and CEO in March 2006.  In the role, she leads the fifth-largest chamber of commerce in the country, with nearly 6,000 member businesses and a staff of 80 professionals.

A native of Philadelphia, she came to Cincinnati as a young professional, getting her start at Procter & Gamble before establishing a successful 22-year career with The PNC Financial Services Group, most recently as executive vice president and chief marketing officer.

Van der Horst has a long history of service to the community and serves on the boards of the Cincinnati Business Committee, 3CDC, Downtown Cincinnati Inc., the Fine Arts Fund, United Way, OKI, UC College of Business Advisory Council, UC Economics Center for Education & Research and the Queen City Club.  For these many contributions and her outstanding accomplishment in business, she has been recognized as a YWCA Career Women of Achievement and in 2008 was named by two Cincinnati-area magazines as one of the region’s most powerful leaders.

Van der Horst earned a bachelor of science degree in economics – summa cum laude – from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Robert W. Coy Jr. is president of CincyTech. He leads a 12-member team that works to drive capital into high-growth companies in Southwest Ohio. He and his team serve a wide range of constituencies – entrepreneurs, investors, economic development partners, research institutions and community stakeholders – in fulfilling CincyTech’s mission of accelerating the growth of start-up bioscience and technology companies.Coy was recruited to Cincinnati in October 2005 from St. Louis, where he served as senior vice president for entrepreneurial development at the St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association. He led the development of the St. Louis Arch Angel Investor Network, which invests in early-stage companies in the St. Louis region.

Coy’s career has included in-depth experience in economic development in Pennsylvania and Delaware as well. In Delaware, he held the state cabinet position for economic development from 1993-98, leading initiatives to establish two venture capital funds and a pre-seed fund. In Pennsylvania, his responsibilities included serving as executive director of the Ben Franklin Partnership Program, a national best-practice model. There he oversaw the operations of the state’s four regional technology centers, which make seed capital investment in promising technology companies.  

Coy also worked with the Pennsylvania Legislature and pension funds to develop an investment strategy that has resulted in well over $1 billion invested in Pennsylvania-based venture capital funds.  Coy also served as special assistant to the Pennsylvania secretary of education from 1992-93.

Coy received a master’s degree from University of Notre Dame and a bachelor of arts degree from Pennsylvania State University.