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Northeast Ohio execs make Barron s list of influential women in finance
Northeast Ohio execs make Barron s list of influential women in finance
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Tricia Griffith, CEO of Progressive, is one of the 100 most influential women in U.S. finance, according to Barron s.
Two prominent Cleveland-area executives are on the new Barron s list of the 100 most influential women in U.S. finance.
The list, presented alphabetically, includes Tricia Griffith, CEO of Mayfield Village-based insurance giant Progressive, and Ivy Zelman, CEO and co-founder of Zelman & Associates, a Cleveland housing research and investment banking firm. (The Barron s piece was written before the announcement this week that Zelman & Associates will be acquired by publicly traded commercial real estate finance company Walker & Dunlop Inc. of Bethesda, Md.)
80-year-old Progressive works to stay in touch with startup businesses
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Tricia Griffith, CEO of Progressive Corp., speaking at the virtual annual meeting of the North Coast Venture Fund.
Progressive Corp., the Mayfield Village-based insurer, may be the largest company in the region and, at 83 years old, one of its great growth stories, with a worldwide market. But, said CEO Tricia Griffith, it s important that the company think young and stay in touch with what s happening at companies in Northeast Ohio and elsewhere that are struggling to get off the ground. That s how I think about startups, she told the virtual attendees at the annual meeting of North Coast Ventures, the 15-year-old Cleveland investment group that helps to finance technology startups, primarily software businesses. I think about the fact that they don t have the legacy systems and they can be really nimble, and that is going to be expected of all (businesses) to be that way, even though we re over