CEOs You Should Know - Cleveland

Robert Heyd is the Owner & CEO of QC Kinetix of Cleveland. QC Kinetix offers non-surgical regenerative medicine and is the largest and fastest growing company of its type in North America. Most of Heyd’s professional career has been in Business-to-Business services as a Sales & Customer Service leader.

Prior to joining QC Kinetix, Heyd served as VP of Customer Service for a national RIM services company. In 2021 alongside his wife and partner Elaine Heyd, they purchased the development rights for QC Kinetix and began opening locations in Northeast Ohio with a hyper focus building presence and supporting the Greater Cleveland area community. In his current role with QC Kinetix, Heyd is focused on the implementation and execution of strategic company-wide initiatives, market expansion, as well as various day-to-day operations. With three QC Kinetix locations open and serving patients in the Cleveland area, Heyd plans on opening an additional six locations over the next two-three years with expansion in the Akron/Canton markets.

Visit QC Kinetix at https://qckinetix.com/cleveland/

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Sanjay Singh is the Chairman and CEO of Mace Security International, the owner of the Mace® Brand and serves on its Board of Directors. He previously served as the Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors since April, 2020 and was appointed as the Vice-Chairman of the Board in March, 2018.

Mace Security International, Inc. is an American manufacturer of personal safety and security products such as the widely recognized Mace Pepper Spray as well as stun guns, personal alarms, and products for the law enforcement and private security markets.

Previously, Mr. Singh led and directed strategy at Roll-Kraft, a privately held manufacturing company, first as Executive Vice-President and then as President from July, 2013 through March, 2020.

Over the course of his career, Mr. Singh acquired expertise in increasing shareholder value by building better businesses alongside management teams. Mr. Singh was a Board Member and Chief Financial Officer from 2010-2013 at Maclellan Services, Inc. Prior to 2010, Mr. Singh held Chief Financial Officer and financial leadership roles in private-equity owned portfolio companies and at divisions of Stanley Black and Decker and Newell-Rubbermaid.

Mr. Singh currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Regional Brands, Inc., and serves on the Board of Directors of MAGNET and Entrepreneur’s EDGE. Mr. Singh has a Bachelor’s of Commerce degree from St. Xavier College, Kolkata, India and an MBA from Gannon University, Erie, PA.

Visit Mace Security International's website at https://www.mace.com/

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Kathryn Heidemann—a senior arts management and higher education leader, educator and artist—first joined CIA in 2019 as Vice President of Academic Affairs + Dean of Faculty. In her role as the College’s chief academic officer, she was responsible for program and curricular development and delivery, academic operations and strategy, student affairs, and accreditation and assessment.

Heidemann played a key role in the development of CIA’s most recent strategic plan, led the college’s successful reaccreditation process and led its COVID-19 academic planning, which resulted in the school safely offering in-person instruction. She also was instrumental in founding the Jane B. Nord Center for Teaching + Learning.

Prior to joining CIA, Heidemann worked at Carnegie Mellon University, where she served as Assistant Dean at the College of Fine Arts and Heinz College of Public Policy & Information Systems Management. As part of her role, she spearheaded the arts and entertainment management graduate programs in Pittsburgh and Los Angeles, creating data- and tech-informed leaders in the visual arts, performing arts, and interactive and entertainment media.

Heidemann brought two decades of professional arts and nonprofit management experience to her work at CIA, having worked in artistic programming, operations, external relations, and education and community engagement for a variety of cultural institutions, including The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Chicago Academy for the Arts and Edinburgh Festival Fringe, to name a few.

An active community leader, Heidemann also served as a mayor-appointed Art Commissioner to the City of Pittsburgh, a longtime board member of the Association of Arts Administration Educators, and an advisor to the National Consortium for Creative Placemaking. Heidemann holds a Master of Arts Management degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia College Chicago. She is also a graduate of Leadership Cleveland (2022); the Leadership Academy for Women at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon; Leadership Pittsburgh’s Leadership Development Initiative; Coro Center for Civic Leadership’s Women in Leadership program; and was named a 2018 Fellow by the International Council for Fine Arts Deans.

Heidemann is especially interested in role of higher education in creative placemaking, arts and community-engaged experiential learning, as well as cross-sector initiatives that intersect creativity, technology and social impact. Raised abroad (Australia, Venezuela, Germany), Heidemann is also passionate about the role of the arts in building bridges, fostering mutual understanding and cultural diplomacy.

An active bass guitarist and songwriter for more than 20 years, Heidemann performs with various bands and musical projects across the region. She lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio with her husband and two sons.

Visit the Cleveland Institute of Art: https://www.cia.edu/

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King has over 30 years of experience in sales, marketing, strategy, and leadership from some of the most recognizable brands in the brewing industry. He spent 20 years at Anheuser-Busch InBev, last serving as the Vice President of the Central Division.

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Vitantonio, Jr. became President of the Greater Cleveland Automobile Dealers' Association in 2010 and the follow year he became President of the Cleveland Auto Show. He's also served as Chairperson of the Auto Shows of North America.

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In 2011, Habat became President/CEO of Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity and led the organization to by far its most productive and impactful years. Litten joined Cleveland Habitat as its new President/CEO on October 1, 2022.

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On August 8, 2010, the Board of Directors of Cardinal Credit Union, nominated Christine Blake as President and CEO. Cardinal has 12 branches that serve 30,000 members, spanning 9 northern Ohio counties, with assets in excess of $285 million.

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Brokaw Inc. is a creative marketing, digital, and video content firm headquartered at the center of the universe: Cleveland, Ohio.

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