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8050 N High St, Ste 160
Columbus, OH 43235
Phone: (614) 732-5948

Meghan Sullivan-Homsher joined Frontline Education on Feb. 1, 2022. She was previously with the Ohio Department of Taxation and has been a great resource to Ohio schools.  Meghan had been with the Tax Analysis Division of ODT since 2005.  Her responsibilities have included providing analysis of proposed legislation and contributing to department publications.  Meghan’s specific areas of interest include property tax, school district income tax, and state/local revenue sharing. 

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100 South Third Street
Columbus, OH 43215
Phone: (614) 227-2347

Tess Tannehill is an Associate in the Columbus office of the law firm of Bricker & Eckler LLP. Tess's practice focuses on representing school districts in real property tax valuation disputes before county boards of revision, the Ohio Board of Tax Appeals, and the Ohio Supreme Court. Tess advises schools districts, hospitals, universities, foundations, and other charitable organizations seeking to obtain exemption from real property taxation. Tess also advises hospitals, individuals, families, and fiduciaries on estate planning, estate administration, trust administration, and guardianship matters.

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100 South Third St
Columbus, OH 43215
Phone: 614-227-4840

Adam Seeley is a public finance attorney. His practice focuses on economic development and local government counseling, as well as administrative, environmental and energy law. Adam’s experience covers TIF, CRA, enterprise zone administration, appraisal, real estate transactions, contract negotiation and drafting, civil litigation, and administrative compliance.

Prior to joining Bricker, Adam served as in-house staff counsel for the Franklin County Auditor’s Office, Real Estate Division. He has also worked as a policy and legal aide for the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) and in private practice representing clients facing consumer protection matters.

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212 East Fifth Street
Suite 1000
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Phone: (513) 826-0582

Mr. Laskey is a Director in the Cincinnati, Ohio Municipal Finance office of RBC Capital Markets and has worked at RBC Capital Markets since July of 2006.  Andrew has worked with hundreds of local governmental entities throughout Ohio on debt offerings including school districts, cities, counties, townships as well as the State of Ohio.  Additionally, Andrew has presented at numerous conferences on a variety of topics related to municipal bond issues and the bond underwriting process.

Andrew currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Ohio Municipal Advisory Council, a repository of statistical information relating to Ohio municipal issuers and their securities.  Mr. Laskey formerly served on the Board of Trustees for Clovernook Center for the Blind in Cincinnati but remains actively involved in the organization. 

Andrew attended the University of Cincinnati and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Honors-PLUS business program. He is a Registered Securities Representative, registered with the NASD and SEC.

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4900 Key Tower, 127 Public Sq.
Cleveland, OH 44114
Phone: 216.479.8723

Heather R. Baldwin Vlasuk has a broad range of experience in public law, routinely advising municipalities, townships, counties and other political subdivisions on a wide variety of matters, including economic development, real estate and land use, employment and public finance. Utilizing her public law expertise, Heather focuses her practice on public finance transactions, serving as bond counsel in general obligation and revenue financings for public issuers.

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175 S Third St, Ste 1250
Columbus, OH 43215
Phone: (614) 264-3022

Marvin is a director and municipal advisor within the public sector practice group. Marvin has been a finance professional for over 29 years, serving as treasurer/CFO for various types of school districts in Ohio and later as managing director for a large Midwest capital markets investment banking firm serving assorted education and traditional local government clients.

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3040 Kemp Rd
Beavercreek , OH 45431
Phone: 937-458-2421

Penny Rucker is a Treasurer/CFO who works with school districts to help them achieve financial success.
Penny believes that her work is more than working with numbers, she knows it has been vital to understand the systems that produce the flow of the dollars and she has been focused on leadership to impact the effectiveness of those dollars.
Penny has worked for many different types of districts – large, small, urban, rural, rich and poor.  She used to do consulting when she was raising her family which allowed her to explore diverse school cultures.  During the recession she worked at the largest urban school district in Ohio and currently she works at Beavercreek City Schools.  
Penny is experienced in leadership and communications with financial systems.  She is interested in making an impact to improve financial stability in schools along with financial transparency.  She speaks, mentors, trains and motivates younger professionals to explore schools and help others achieve.
Penny attended The Ohio State University and Franklin University in Columbus, Ohio to earn her Bachelors of Science in Accounting.  She also attended Ashland University in Columbus, Ohio to achieve her Master’s in Education School Treasury.

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25 South Front St
Columbus, OH 43215
Phone: 614.752.1465

For the past 4 years Brian has served as the Executive Director of the Office of School Finance at the Ohio Department of Education.  Prior to becoming Executive Director, he served as the Director of the Office of Federal and State Grants Management for 12 years. With Brian’s expanded role he not only oversees Office of Grants Management, but now manages additional offices which include; Field Services, Fiscal Oversight and Accountability, External Monitoring, Transportation and Medicaid.

In addition, Brian served on the steering committee to develop and implement a new Statewide E-grant system.  The new system rolled out in 2017 with several agencies in implementation mode.

Prior to joining the ODE, Brian served with the Auditor of State and the Ohio Department of Development as Audit Supervisor.  During his time with the Auditor of State’s Office Brian was in charge of the Department Human Services at both the state and county levels.   While with the Department of Development he completed financial/programmatic compliance audits and technical assistance to Cities, Counties and Non-Profits.

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4836 State Route 325
Patriot, OH 45358
Phone: (740) 379-9085

I worked for 16 years with the Auditor of State, Local Government Services, 8 years at Symmes Valley LSD and 1 year at Gallia County LSD as treasurer.

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88 E Broad St
Columbus, Ohio 43215
Phone: 8002820370

James Rader is an Assistant Chief Auditor with the Ohio Auditor of State’s Central Region.  He has a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Ashland University and has been with the State Auditor’s Office since 2000.  He currently is one of three chiefs that oversee the 15 counties in Central Ohio covered by the Central Region.