The 2013 recipient of the Business Pacemaker Award is Joseph D. Napoli, President / General Manager, Toledo Mud Hens Baseball Club and Toledo Walleye Hockey Club.
“Joseph Napoli’s highly successful career, community involvement and outstanding
leadership make him the
ideal business professional to receive
this year’s Pacemaker Award,” observed Thomas Sharkey, Interim Dean, UT College
of Business and Innovation. “The Toledo
Mud Hens are recognized around the world, and Joe’s generosity and personal
involvement in various projects , such as Great Lakes Center for Autism and the Boys Scouts of America,
produces meaningful results in our own community.”
“From Stephen Stranahan to Robert Savage, Harold McMaster to Richard P. Anderson, the recipients of the Pacemaker Award over the past five decades reads as a Who’s Who of current and legendary business leaders in the Toledo region,” Sharkey added. “As the College’s highest honor, the Pacemaker Award recognizes an individual for outstanding achievement in business as well as contributions to the community and the University.”
Marianne Ballas, winner of the 2011 Business Pacemaker
Award, said “Winning the Pacemaker Award is a great honor, and I am very proud
to be a part of the history of this prestigious award. Previous awardees
are some of the most successful and admired business people in our region.”
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Napoli graduated from
St. John’s University in New York City.
Upon graduation, he joined Manufacturer’s Hanover Trust in New York
City. After a brief career in banking,
Joe’s twenty-year career in sports began in Canton, Ohio, with the Canton
Indians, the Double-A club of the Cleveland Indians. In the early 1990’s, he moved to Toledo to
work for the Toledo Mud Hens before spending several years working for the
Chicago Bulls and Detroit Tigers.
Napoli returned to Toledo to develop Fifth Third Field in
downtown Toledo, and later became part
of the development team for the Toledo Walleye and Huntington Center. The
Hens and Walleye have been recognized and awarded for organizational excellence
by Minor League Baseball and the ECHL (Minor League Hockey), respectively.
Napoli serves the community on the boards of ProMedica
Health System, Toledo Children’s Hospital and Toledo Symphony. He and his wife,
Annette, raise their five children in Toledo.
Academic Excellence Pacemaker Awards are presented to UT
College of Business and Innovation graduate and undergraduate students for
their outstanding academic achievement, University and community service, and
leadership.
The 2013 student Pacemakers are:
Applied
Organizational Technology – Stacie Novelli; Accounting –
Cassandra Wenman and Tracy Lester; Finance
– Zachary Buckland and Derrick Jones; Information Operations Technology Management
– Timothy Schloz and Jeffrey Williams; Marketing and International Business –Kelsea
Kiene and Sarah Hess ; Management –
Alvin Fletcher, Jr. and Emily Henzler ; MBA
–Nicholas Fasciana ; Ph.D. Prashanth
Anekal ; Dean’s Office – Paige Stiriz
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