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Dorothy Baunach is an Entrepreneur in Residence at CWA. She is a seasoned and recognized community and business leader with broad experience over a 40-year career providing strategic leadership in non-profit and for-profit enterprises, building public-private partnerships, fostering entrepreneurship and early-stage capital formation, growing key industry clusters and championing innovation. She has been involved in the region’s technology and economic growth as co-founder of BioOhio (now Ohio Life Sciences), JumpStart, NorTech (now merged with Team NEO), Cleveland Water Alliance and DigitalC.
Most recently she was Chief Executive of DigitalC, focusing its efforts on addressing internet connectivity in the City of Cleveland. She currently serves on the Cleveland Public Library Foundation Board, the Auxiliary Board of Cuyahoga Land Bank Charities, Session of Old Stone Church and the Western Reserve Group Mutual Insurance Holding Company Board.
Dorothy holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management, a Master of Science degree in biology from the University of Dayton, and a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, in biology from Wittenberg University.
