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Ilene Shapiro is an At-Large Member of Summit County Council
and serves as Chair of the Planning and Economic
Development
Committee and is actively engaged in numerous economic
development initiatives. Additionally, Councilwoman
Shapiro Chairs the Summit County Green Task Force.
Ilene is an accomplished business leader
with a history of successful business ventures for high
growth, turn-around and start-up organizations with an
emphasis on the wholesale/retail, banking and health care
industries. Today, Shapiro is the Director of Business
Development with the Summa Foundation, a subsidiary of Summa
Health System.
Actively involved in a variety of community organizations,
Shapiro currently serves on the City of Akron Emergency
Services Board (EMS) and the Northeast Ohio Four County
Regional Planning and Development Organization (NEFCO)
Board. She also serves as Co-Chair of the Metropolitan and
Regional Affairs Committee of the County Commissioners
Association of Ohio (CCAO) and Vice President of the Summit
County Planning Commission. Ilene has also served as Chair
of the Summit County Charter Review Commission.
She is an alumnus of both Leadership America and Leadership
Akron. She is a past president of the Women’s Network and
is a founder of the Women’s Endowment Fund of the Akron
Community Foundation.
In recognition of her distinguished work, Shapiro was
awarded the U.S. Small Business Administration Women’s
Business Advocate for the State of Ohio and the Judith A.
Resnick Woman of the Year Award for Inspiration. In 2007,
she was recognized with a Women of Professional Excellence
Award from Women's Network Inc.
In September of 2008, Shapiro was honored with the 2008
Northeast Ohio Athena Award sponsored by ATHENA
International and Inside Business Magazine.
She is featured as an expert on the development of
state-of-the-art processes for motivating, measuring, and
rewarding internal competition in the book entitled “Lessons
from the Nordstrom Way: How Companies are Emulating the #1
Customer Service Company.”
Council Member Shapiro lives in West Akron.
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