Speakers

Laura Bonnet is the founding director for the Center for Family Business at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.  The Center was launched in the Fall 2023 to empower family businesses in Northeast Ohio to achieve generational success as well as to conduct new family business research and develop student curriculum.  Prior to leading the Center, Laura worked eighteen years at American Greetings including Vice President of Strategic Planning & Initiatives and Director of Strategic Planning, working with multiple generations of the Weiss family.  Prior to American Greetings, Laura was a consultant for six years with McKinsey & Company.  Former work experience includes General Motors and The Disney Company.  Laura has her MBA from Stanford University and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska.

Judge Linda Tucci Teodosio has worked as an attorney in private practice, a Magistrate in the Akron Municipal Court and as a Staff Attorney for the Ninth District Court of Appeals.  Judge Teodosio was elected Judge of the Cuyahoga Falls Municipal Court in 1997 where she served until her election to the Summit County Juvenile Court for the term beginning January 1, 2003. Judge Teodosio’s innovative work on the Juvenile Court bench has been extensively recognized in Summit County, Ohio and nationally. She is the longest serving Juvenile Court Judge in the County’s history.

Judge Teodosio’s work on the Juvenile Court bench has been extensively recognized. In September 2016, she received the Thomas J. Moyer Award for Judicial Excellence from the Ohio State Bar Association. In late 2012, Judge Teodosio received the prestigious Award for Innovation from the Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation. In 2010, she received the MacArthur Foundation’s “Champion for Change” Award for her work in the Models for Change Mental Health Juvenile Justice Action Network. Judge Teodosio was honored by the Diocese of Cleveland with the St. Thomas More Award which is awarded annually at the Red Mass in recognition of the virtues of integrity and public service that reflect those of Thomas More.

In addition to her work on the bench, Judge Teodosio is active in numerous professional and community organizations. She has served as President of the Ohio State Bar Association, the Akron Bar Association, the Akron Bar Foundation, and the University of Akron School of Law Alumni Association.  She is also actively involved in the foundation established to remember her late daughter through the Andrea Rose Teodosio Foundation.

Dave Yost was re-elected as Ohio’s 51st attorney general on Nov. 8, 2022, receiving more votes than any other attorney general in the state’s history. 
 
During his first term as the state’s chief legal officer, he quickly gained a national reputation as a fearless advocate for the rule of law — or, as he puts it, “the same rules for everybody.” 
 
Yost’s goal is to “do big good” for the people of Ohio by protecting consumers, rooting out corruption, defending the environment, ensuring an open and competitive marketplace, and fulfilling the many other duties of the Ohio Attorney General’s Office. 
 
Yost began his public-service career as Delaware County auditor, later winning election as that county’s prosecutor. From 2011 through 2018, he served as Ohio’s auditor of state and, in January 2019, began his first term as attorney general. 
 
Yost earned his bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University and law degree from Capital University. He and his wife, Darlene, live in Franklin County; they have three grown children and five grandchildren.