Samuel Gerace

Samuel Gerace

Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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I am a five-time technology CEO with more than 30 years of experience leading SaaS and…

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    1848 Ventures

    Cleveland, Ohio, United States

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    Westfield, OH

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    Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

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    Marlborough, MA

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    Pittsburgh, PA

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    Pittsburgh, PA

Education

Honors & Awards

  • Ernst & Young 2015 NEO Tech Entrepreneur of the Year Award

    Ernst & Young

  • Technology Fast 500 Company

    Deloitte & Touche

  • Best Company

    Interactive Media Council 2000 Awards

  • Inaugural Speaker, Technology and Entrepreneurship Center

    Harvard University

  • Most Innovative People in Direct Marketing Award

    Response Magazine

Organizations

  • Cleveland Jazz Orchestra

    President, Board of Directors

    - Present

    For 35 years, The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra has been Northeast Ohio’s premier jazz voice. The CJO promotes jazz in its historical and contemporary forms, through concerts with gifted jazz musicians, arrangers, composers and educators in northeast Ohio. The CJO looks to shepherd young musicians toward the future of jazz. This season exemplifies this mission and vision through a variety of new music, new compositions and arrangements, and a stellar line-up of well-known guest artists and young…

    For 35 years, The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra has been Northeast Ohio’s premier jazz voice. The CJO promotes jazz in its historical and contemporary forms, through concerts with gifted jazz musicians, arrangers, composers and educators in northeast Ohio. The CJO looks to shepherd young musicians toward the future of jazz. This season exemplifies this mission and vision through a variety of new music, new compositions and arrangements, and a stellar line-up of well-known guest artists and young up-and-coming talent! Our VISION is to celebrate jazz as a uniquely American art form. Our MISSION is to enrich the cultural and intellectual fabric of the communities we serve through jazz. We NOURISH our community by actively leading in our region’s cultural community, promoting Cleveland, reflecting Cleveland’s diversity, and serving as a musical beacon. We PERFORM to play the best jazz you’ve ever heard and the best jazz you’ve never heard. We EDUCATE our community by celebrating cultural unification through jazz and by inspiring new generations of jazz listeners, players, teachers, and jazz lovers. We SUSTAIN our existence in the community by optimizing earned revenue, providing appropriate market compensation, and securing funding to ensure our survival in perpetuity.

  • Hawken School

    Trustee

    - Present

  • MInds Matter of Cleveland

    Chairman

    - Present

    Minds Matter of Cleveland helps high school students from low income families achieve academic excellence and gain admission to leading colleges.

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