Kathleen Durkin Ferry '77 Appointed to the Cleveland Foundation Board of Directors

She is a principal with FocusCFO and was appointed to this role by Patricia A. Gaughan, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.

 

Kathleen brings more than 30 years of corporate finance and business operations experience to the board of the Cleveland Foundation. She began as the treasurer and co-owner of Telefast Industries in 1987, before assuming the role of CEO from 2002-13. She then went on to join FocusCFO in 2015 to assist Ohio small and mid-sized businesses with CFO services, including manufacturing, distribution, non-profit and financial sectors. Kathleen earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA in Finance from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.