Since 1988, Umberto P. Fedeli has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of The Fedeli Group, one of the largest privately held insurance brokerage firms in Ohio and multi-year recipient of weatherhead 100’s list of the fastest growing companies in northeast Ohio. The Fedeli Group has become a fully integrated insurance and financial services firm, specializing in insurance and risk management, employee benefits and workers’ compensation consulting, surety, environmental risk management and estate planning. The cornerstone of the Fedeli Group has always been its creative problem-solving and unique networking capabilities.

A genuine commitment to his community has led Umberto to contribute much of his personal time and energy to a variety of civic and charitable causes. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and is currently serving as their Chairman of Government Relations and as a member of their Executive Marketing and Finance Committees. He is on the Board of Trustees of John Carroll University and is a trustee of the Cleveland Catholic Diocese Foundation, Chairman of the Northern Ohio Italian American Foundation, a charitable organization that he helped establish in 1995, and is the current Chairman of the Cleveland Catholic Cemeteries Association. He is also actively involved in Legatus, an international organization of Catholic CEOs, is Chairman of their Cleveland Chapter, serves on their International Board of Directors and was named their 2002 Officer of the Year. He is an active member of the Cleveland Chapter of the Young Presidents’ Organization and the 50 Club.

Among his many accomplishments, Umberto is honored to have been named Man of the Year by the Americans of Italian Heritage and the Italian-American Sports Hall of Fame, as well being honored with the Columbian Award by the Italian Federation. He was selected by inside Business in 2004 as one of Cleveland’s most “powerful” people in the Business/Community/Political arena. He has been recognized by John Carroll University’s Business School as one of Fifty of its Finest, and has been the recipient of both the Grand Illusion Award from the Ohio Cancer Research Associates and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s Norman Cohn Hope Award for Outstanding Philanthropic and Community Service. He has been inducted into the Villa Angela-St. Joseph Hall of Fame and was named the Boys’ Town of Italy 2002 Man of the Year. In 1998, he became a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, administered by the Holy See in Rome. Umberto is the holder of the prestigious Ellis Island Medal of Honor, and along with his wife Maryellen, was honored as the Christ Child Society’s Persons of the Year in 2003.

In 1991, Umberto was appointed by then Governor George Voinovich to the Ohio Turnpike Commission, where he served as Chairman for six years. He has served on both the advisory committee to elect Mike DeWine in his senatorial campaign, and on the campaign committee to elect and then re-elect Governor Voinovich. He remains actively involved with both U.S. Senators, as well as in other local, state and national campaigns.

Umberto is a proud alumnus of St. Joseph High School and John Carroll University. He resides in Gates Mills with his wife and their five children

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