Episode 24_Mike Penner

11/25/20 • 49 min

Mike Penner has been a member of The Ohio State University’s athletic department’s leadership team for the last 14 years providing strategic direction and oversight for the 36-sport athletic department with more than 1,000 student-athletes and 1,700 full and part-time employees. He was promoted to Executive Associate Athletic Director in June 2018 and currently serves as the lead administrator for the department’s facility operations, capital projects and athletic district development; event management and championships; technology, and audio services; and, the sport athletic director for men’s and women’s tennis teams. In his time at Ohio State, Penner has provided oversight of fan experience and promotions, creative services, the OSU Golf Club, and camps staffs; and provided leadership for more than $200 million of capital projects; has hosted more than 100 NCAA championships and more than 40 Conference championships; and has managed more than 125 events in the 100,000-seat Ohio Stadium. Penner is a former President of the Collegiate Event and Facility Management Association (CEFMA) and was selected as the inaugural CEFMA/GameDay Consulting Event & Facility Manager of the Year award recipient. He has taught classes in Ohio State’s Fisher College of Business in the Sport Management program and has given dozens of presentations on various event topics at national and regional conferences and local universities. He has worked at the NCAA Hoop City, OHSAA Tournaments for track, tennis, basketball, softball and wrestling, the Special Olympics State Summer Games and the Major League Baseball All-Star Fan Fest. A 1997 sport management graduate of the University of Dayton, Penner earned his master’s degree from The Ohio State University in 1999. He then began his career at Ohio State in July 1999 with the Department of Recreational Sports where he served as the intramural coordinator. He moved to the Department of Athletics in 2001 as the assistant director of event management and then was promoted to event management director in 2003, assistant athletics director in 2006, associate athletics director in 2009 and is now the Executive Associate Athletics Director for Internal Operations. The Cleveland native now resides in Upper Arlington, Ohio with his wife Stephanie, daughter Kaylie (7) and son Zachary (5).

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Nick Lingenfelter has over 17 years of experience in the Commercial Real Estate industry and began partnering with PLK in 2014 on development projects. He currently oversees the development of PLK’s apartments and for sale townhome projects focusing on site identification, planning, entitlements, project vision, and end design. Nick has an extensive background with complex real estate structures completing almost $2.9 billion in projects in 10 states, both as a banker and developer. He has significant experience in Tax Credit Financing, TIFs, Bonds, Brownfield Developments, Historic Redevelopments and ground up new construction. Prior to joining PLK, he spent 14 years as a Commercial Real Estate banker in Chicago and Cincinnati. Nick graduated from The Ohio State University with a degree in Finance where he was a National Buckeye Scholar and most recently worked for WesBanco Bank as the Senior Vice President, Senior Commercial Banker, and Team Lead for Southwest Ohio. He is actively involved in his community where he served 2 terms as the Chairman of The City of Loveland Finance Committee. Nick is a proud husband to an amazing wife (Jessica) and father to two children (Eli and Zoe). When he is not at work, he is still working and dreams of fishing and the beach. https://plkcommunities.com/

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Episode 25_Steve Cady

Senior Associate Athletic Director Steve Cady arrived at Miami in 1976 and has served both a coach and an administrator. Steve was the inaugural Coach and started the nationally-renowned Ice Hockey Program,. Cady credits his lengthy career in intercollegiate athletics to his own invaluable student-athlete experience and a strong belief in the value of the life skills athletics can teach. In addition to his roles at Miami, Steve has been involved in many levels of NCAA Hockey governing and planning bodies across the country. This Upstate New York native earned his undergraduate degree at Saint Lawrence University, and his Masters from Bowling Green State University. Steve is integral in the design, planning, fundraising, and execution of improvements and expansion of the Redhawks athletics facilities at Miami. www.miamiredhawks.com