Ohio Business Roundtable

Business Leadership to Build a Better Ohio

 
 
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Ohio Business Roundtable CEOs are committed to working in a nonpartisan manner with the Governor and other public leaders to build a better Ohio.

Comprised of the CEOs of the state’s largest and most influential businesses, the Ohio Business Roundtable works with Ohio’s governors and legislative leaders in pursuit of policies that improve Ohio’s competitiveness.
 
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Monthly Spotlight

Stephen D. Steinour
Huntington Bancshares Incorporated

Stephen D. Steinour is Chairman, President and CEO of Columbus, Ohio-based Huntington Bancshares Incorporated, a $105 billion regional bank-holding company delivering a full suite of commercial and retail banking, investment management, and insurance services across the Midwest through Huntington National Bank and its affiliates. 

Steinour joined Huntington in 2009 from CrossHarbor Capital Partners where he served as Managing Partner. Previously, he served as President and CEO of commercial bank holding company Citizens Financial Group, Division Executive for Fleet Financial Group, and Executive Vice President at Bank of New England. Steinour began his career as an analyst for the U.S. Treasury Department and subsequently worked for the FDIC.

Steinour is the current Vice Chairman of the Ohio Business Roundtable and is very engaged in the activities and direction of the OBRT.  He understands the importance of the state’s business climate to Ohio’s job-creators to keep Ohio’s economy growing and our communities strong. Equally important, he sees the OBRT as a means to create a strong economic environment capable of creating opportunities for economic mobility for all Ohioans. 

 
 
 
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Issues

The issues and policies aggressively pursued by the OBRT are member-driven, deriving directly from the expertise and experience of its CEO members, and move the needle to strengthen Ohio’s economy.

 
 
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News

 
 
Featured
Columbus CEO: Gene therapy, inventions at Nationwide Children’s Hospital spurring spinoffs
Columbus CEO: Gene therapy, inventions at Nationwide Children’s Hospital spurring spinoffs

For most central Ohioans, Nationwide Children’s Hospital is where they take their kids when accidents happen or disease strikes. Few realize that within its growing footprint, researchers are finding ways to combat illness and are sharing those finds with the world through Matt McFarland’s office.

McFarland heads up the hospital’s Office of Technology Commercialization, created in 2008 to help transfer researchers’ innovations to startup or existing companies for commercialization.

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Ohio Business Roundtable Supports Gas Tax Increase
Ohio Business Roundtable Supports Gas Tax Increase

On behalf of the Ohio Business Roundtable Executive Committee, President and CEO Pat Tiberi released the following statement today in connection with H.B. 62, the biennial transportation budget, now under consideration in the Ohio Senate:

  “The Ohio Business Roundtable supports an increase in the gasoline tax for the purpose of maintaining and improving roads, highways and bridges in Ohio. Clearly the existing tax, last raised in 2005, is insufficient to keep up with inflation in the cost of repairs and construction.  In addition, in order to provide parity, we believe it is important that gasoline and diesel fuel are taxed the same, and alternative vehicles contribute their fair share.

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Site Selection Magazine: Marathon Runs the Race to Win in Findlay, Ohio; Its CEO Explains Why
Site Selection Magazine: Marathon Runs the Race to Win in Findlay, Ohio; Its CEO Explains Why

Gary R. Heminger is Chairman and CEO of Marathon Petroleum, headquartered in Findlay, Ohio. Heminger now leads the country’s biggest refiner by volume, as a result of Marathon’s acquisition last year of its former rival, Andeavor. The Findlay native, who rose steadily through Marathon’s ranks after joining in 1975, spoke in late February with Site Selection Senior Editor Gary Daughters about his hometown and his Fortune 25 company. The version below has lightly edited for clarity.

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