Exclusive for Professional Members - Join the Cleveland Professional 20/30 Club for our Monthly CEO Dinner with Martin Uhle, The President & CEO of the Community West Foundation. The CEO Dinner series is one of the organization longest standing institutions. Each month our Professional Members have the opportunity to join a local company's CEO and courageous Community leaders for a private dinner. These events are intentionally limited to 15 to 20 people, so everyone has a chance to listen, learn, share and grow together through an inclusive discussion.
Attendees can make connections with the CEO and the other driven young professionals in attendance. The speakers represent a wide range of companies and industries, and whether big or small, public or private, well-known or niche, good conversation is had by all. This event will be $30 per professional member and will include your dinner and drink at the Union Club. Street parking is available around the Union Club. Upon
About Martin Uhle
Marty, as everyone knows him, has been on the Foundation’s Board of Directors since 2009 serving in many capacities. It has been through his service that he was identified as the optimal candidate to assume the position as the next President and CEO of the Foundation.
“The last several years that I have dedicated to non-profit work have inspired me,” says Marty. “I left the for-profit world in 2011, immersed myself in service to the community, and consider this an amazing opportunity to lead such a well-respected and successful organization.”
Most recently Marty served as the Superintendent and CEO of the Cleveland Lutheran High School Association from 2016-2019. Under his guidance, both Lutheran East and Lutheran West High Schools reached record enrollment in their 70+ year history and installed the next generation of leaders for the schools. In addition, he was Messiah Lutheran’s Pierstorf Memorial Fund Executive Director since 2012 which entailed granting interest-free loans to Lutheran students to help them go to college. The number of student loans granted has tripled under Marty’s leadership.
Marty holds a Masters of Business Administration from Baldwin Wallace University and a Bachelors of Arts in Business from Wittenberg University. He continues to be an active servant of his undergraduate alma mater where his dad, brother and sons also graduated. As a member of their Board since 2009, he has been involved in many major university milestones including hiring a new president in 2017 and a $52 million-dollar capital campaign to build an indoor health, wellness, and athletic complex that opened this past fall.
In addition to his board involvement at Community West Foundation and Wittenberg University, Marty also served seven years on the board for the Urban Community School located on the near west side of Cleveland.
Prior to his non-profit work, Marty had a successful career in the for-profit business world. He’s held senior leadership positions for the majority of his career including President and CEO of Vantage Financial Group from 2005-2010; President and COO of Heartland Payment Systems from 1997-2004; and Senior Vice President, Payment Services with KeyBank from 1985-1997. Efforts in these roles allowed him the flexibility to choose how to spend the rest of his working career.
