Our Team
Dominick Farinacci, Creator of Modern Warrior LIVE
Jaymes Poling, Creator of Modern Warrior LIVE
Scott Balogh & Stacy Banks, Executive Producers
Al & Marty Sikes, Associate Producers
Emmett Murphy, Director of Modern Warrior LIVE
Dr. Patrick Palmieri, Mental Health & Education Advisor
Richard Marks & Amy Haines
Loren Schoenberg
Anthony & Debra Principi
Piers Playfair
Brian Hurley
Todd Flournoy
Marty Caraway
Scott Balogh
Since joining Mar-Bal in 1992, Scott Balogh has been building Mar-Bal, Inc. into a larger, more integrated and global company. This ambition will continue to be achieved through the company’s Strategic Plan, which has integrated industry talent and has strengthened core competencies and capabilities with investments, technology and innovation.
Scott, a native of Cleveland, OH is an entrepreneur and an industry leader with a proven record of product development, driving change and delivering continuous process improvement. Scott has been President and Chief Executive Officer since July 1998.
With Scott’s leadership, the company opened an R&D Technical Center in 2007 and expanded globally with the opening of a sales office in Shanghai, China in 2012. Today, Mar-Bal, Inc. is one of the top thermoset injection molding manufacturers in the United States, with three manufacturing facilities employing over 500 people.
Scott serves on the boards of Flambeau Inc., and the Ohio Manufacturers Association (OMA). He has been a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), Cleveland Chapter since 2004 and has served as chairman of the YPO Plastics Network since 2010.
In 2013, Scott was a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for the Northern Ohio area, this was the third time in four years that Scott has been recognized as a finalist for the award.
Prior to joining Mar-Bal, Scott was a successful National Sales Manager for the IBM Corporation for over 8 years.
Scott attended Capital University in Columbus, Ohio and graduated with a B.A. in Business Administration and Economics.
Al Sikes
Al Sikes draws insights from wide-ranging experiences that began in the Midwest and moved east to the power cities of Washington and New York. Sikes’ leadership helped shape the arc of 21st century communication technologies from positions as Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and then President of Hearst New Media.
Sikes’ bold leadership at the FCC eliminating barriers that blocked new technologies, led to digital TV, radio and mobile phone services. He also began actions against Howard Stern that resulted in Stern wishing Sikes dead on his daily radio show. Sikes’ technology insights and his collaborations with technology pioneers were captured in his first book, Fast Forward. Beyond his work in business and government, Sikes draws on experiences chairing The Trinity Forum Board, tending a small apiary with his wife, Marty, and leading a growing jazz festival in his hometown of Easton, Maryland.
While living and working in New York City, Sikes founded READ ALLIANCE, which trains teenagers to tutor children with reading deficiencies. In 2004, the Manhattan Institute chose Sikes as one of eight winners of the Social Entrepreneurship Award. This award recognizes enterprising individuals who are helping Americans realize their full potential as citizens and members of society.
Patrick A. Palmieri, Ph.D.
Patrick A. Palmieri, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, the James and Vanita Oelschlager Chair in Traumatic Stress, and the Director of the Traumatic Stress Center at Summa Health System, Akron, OH. The Center focuses on providing empirically supported interventions for trauma-related problems, trains the current and next generations of health care providers on trauma-informed methods, and conducts research to advance the science of traumatic stress. Dr. Palmieri has been at Summa Health System since 2004 and holds appointments as Professor of Psychiatry at Northeast Ohio Medical University and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Kent State University. He received his BA from the State University of New York at Binghamton and his MA and PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He completed a clinical internship at the Danville (IL) VA Medical Center, a postdoctoral fellowship in quantitative psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and has been licensed in Ohio since 2006.
Dr. Palmieri's clinical, training, and research interests all revolve around the overarching theme of trauma informed care. Clinically, he specializes in the evidence-based assessment and cognitive-behavioral treatment of mood, anxiety, and stress-related disorders, especially Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and its commonly co-occurring conditions. He trains students and licensed health care providers on trauma informed best practices, and he provides training and consultation in trauma informed care for health care and other organizations. An active researcher, he has authored or co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications. His research has focused on risk and resilience factors of PTSD, the nature and trajectories of post-trauma responding, development of tools assessing PTSD and PTSD risk, evaluation of PTSD treatments, and the role of trauma and PTSD in physical health. In recent years his interests have expanded to include health care reform and the integration of primary care and behavioral health care, including trauma-informed primary care. He co-chaired the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services' Trauma Informed Care Advisory Committee and chairs the Summit County Trauma Informed Care Coalition, whose mission is to increase awareness and understanding within the community about trauma and its effects, to improve quality of care and access to evidence-based services, and to facilitate collaboration and a more coordinated response to trauma issues across systems. He also serves as the Health Care and Education Advisor for Modern Warrior Live, a musical theatrical project with a mission to promote dialogue between veterans and civilians, de-stigmatize PTSD, and promote post-trauma recovery and growth.
Dr. Palmieri serves as Mental Health Advisor to Modern Warrior LIVE
Thank You to the Following Organizations for Your Support and Participation
Amazon Military Affairs
Avalon Theatre
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation
Dock Street Foundation
International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies
MAPS Museum
National Association of County Veteran Service Officers
National Council for Behavioral Health
National Public Radio
NEOPAT (Northeast Ohio Foundation for Patriotism)
New York City Department of Corrections
Playhouse Square
Summa Health System
The Kim Foundation
The Koret Foundation
The Louis Stokes VA Medical Center
The Plain Dealer, Brian Albrecht
United War Veterans Council
23Arts LIVE, Creative Advisor & Presenter
Advisors
Ciuni & Panichi CPAs and Business Advisors
Dr. Alex Johnson, President, Cuyahoga Community College
Terri Pontremoli, Director, Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland
Julie Muraco
Loren Schoenberg
Gina Vernaci, CEO, Playhouse Square
Walter Haverfield, Attorneys at Law
Thank You to the Following Individuals for Your Support and Participation
Lynn Ackerson
Sally & Chip Akridge
Susan E. Allen
Daniel W. Boothe
Alexa & Tom Seip
Irmy & Phil Webster
Carol & Tom Wheeler
Artistic Insights Fund
AVI Foodsystems, Inc
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Royce Ball
Davis Bobrow
Kathy Bosin
Meta & Bill Boyd
Ell & Mike Bracy
Herm Breuer
CSM Thomas Capel
Donna Cantor & John Pinney
Ronda Cheses
Dock Street Foundation
Fran Donovan
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Holly & Paul Fine
Audrey & Steve Forrer
Christopher Gilmore
Mary & Bill Griffin
Bobbi & Jerry Harris
Beau Higgins
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David Hill
Ann Holladay
Marc Jaffe
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Dorothy & C.O. Johnson
Todd Katz
Rick Kell
Peg Keller
Jeff & Mary Kinney
Kenneth Koblitz
Joan Levy
Trish & John Malin
Frank Marshall
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Nora J. Meeker
Maxine Millar
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Thomas Partners
Mary Lou Armstrong & Joe Peters
William W. Rowley
Jack Schron
Robert C. Smith
Susan & Jack Stoltz
Mike Swallow
SyncShow
The Aspen Institute Wye Fellows
The Fedeli Group
Beverly & Richard Tilghman
Isaiah Williams
Maia Banks Fundraising
Dr. Paul Cox Dean, Creative Arts, Cuyahoga Community College
Richard DeChant Director - Strategic Initiatives, NEOPAT
Michael Kauffman Public Relations
Christopher Kornmann Graphic Design
Brian McKenna Project Manager
Matthew Miller Veteran Services
Mick Munoz Veteran Services
Modern Warrior Experience Participants
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Walt Booker
Constance Macon
Dustin Teeters
With Special Thanks to All of Our Kickstarter Supporters
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