Making "Cents" of Lakewood Finances
Tuesday, February 26th
7:00 PM
Forum One
Participant Bio
Mike Summers
Lakewood City Council and Leader of the Structural Taskforce Citizens Committee
Mike Summers is President and owner of Summers Rubber Company, Cleveland, Ohio.
Summers Rubber Company in an industrial distribution company specializing in hose, fittings, and sealing products for the durable goods manufacturing, chemical, and construction markets. Summers Rubber has 60 employees and 8 branch locations.
His professional accomplishments include service as President of the Westside Industrial Retention Network (WIRE-Net), a consortium of manufacturing companies dedicated to preserving industrial jobs on Cleveland’s Westside and President of the National Association of Hose and Accessories Distributors (NAHAD). He served as a Board Member of the Cleveland Growth Association and Co- Chaired its Jobs and Workforce Intitiative. He serves a member of the Board of Directors of First Federal Savings and Loan Association. He was appointed by Governor Taft to serve as Chairman of Ohio’s Workforce Policy Board from 1999 to 2003.. He served eight years on the Lakewood Board of Education, including service as President in 1999 and 2003. He was appointed by the Cuyahoga County Commissioners in 2000 to serve on the County Workforce Investment Board. He chaired the Grow Lakewood Strategy Taskforce( 2005) and the Structural Balance Finance Task Force(2007)and was elected to Lakewood City Council, Ward 3 in November 2007.
Mike Summers is a graduate of Lakewood High School, Class of 1972. He earned an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, and a B.A. from Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio. He is the recipient of Wittenberg University’s Distinguished Alumni Citation, and was inducted into the Lakewood High School Alumni Hall of Fame.
Mike is married to Wendy. They Have three children: Amy, Ted, and Barbara.
See other participants: Edward Fitzgerald | Jennifer Pae | Yvette Ittu | Kevin O'Brien