The Office of Civic Engagement named Ronald V. Johnson, Jr. its Distinguished LINK Alumnus at a reception May 4th, 2016. Johnson, a BBA Finance alumnus also serves as a mentor to a LINK Scholar. 

Ronald currently is the Senior Vice President & Director of Risk Management at KeyBank. During his tenure at Key, he has held a number of leadership positions. Ronald continued his education after CSU going on to earn his MBA from Baldwin Wallace and his JD from the Akron School of Law.

About the LINK program:

The Cleveland State University LINK program has for years provided minority students, largely from Greater Cleveland-area high schools, with internship and cooperative education opportunities. Its goals have been both to promote minority student participation in occupational fields that are in high demand as well as to serve as a recruitment and retention tool for promising students. Learn more about the LINK Scholars program at: http://www.csuohio.edu/engagement/link-program.

Pictured above, left to right: Byron P. White, Vice President of University Engagement and Chief Diversity Officer, Cleveland State University; Ronald V. Johnson, BBA Finance 1995; LaToya Smith, Assistant Vice President, Fifth Third Bank, CSU alumna, BBA Marketing 1998 and Julian Rogers, Director of Community Partnership, Cleveland State University.