The Cleveland Institute of Music has assembled an outstanding ensemble to lead the institution, including a volunteer board of trustees with a wealth of resources and expertise, led by A. Malachi Mixon III. Over the 80 years it has served the community, CIM has always been supported by a loyal group of local and national leaders. President David Cerone leads the administrative team in collaboration with the Board.

Prior to his appointment as President of The Cleveland Institute of Music in 1985, David Cerone served on the faculty of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music for nine years and for ten years was Chairman of the CIM String Department. He was Director of the Meadowmount School of Music and member of its faculty for nineteen summers. In 1975, he joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and was appointed Chairman of the Violin Department, succeeding the late Ivan Galamian.

In the summer of 1985, he and his wife, violinist Linda Sharon Cerone, founded the nationally acclaimed ENCORE School for Strings in Hudson, Ohio. Mr. Cerone made his Cleveland Orchestra solo debut in 1987. He participates as a juror and is associated with many prominent national and international music competitions, such as the Indianapolis International Violin Competition, the Paganini Competition, and the Henryk Szeryng Foundation Career Award. He is an Auxiliary Director of the International Board of the Suzuki Association and has served as a master teacher at the annual international conferences in Japan. Mr. Cerone's extremely popular recordings of the Suzuki Violin Method Books I through IV have recently been reissued by Warner/Chapell. He presented a series of master classes, lectures and a recital for the Talent Education Research Institute's Teachers Convention in Hamamatsu, Japan, in the summer of 2002, the first foreigner to address this illustrious group. Mr. Cerone is a regular performer in the St. Bart's Music Festival each January.

He is a board member of University Circle, Inc. and the Avery Fisher Artist Program and a member of the Leadership Cleveland Class of 1989. He has served on the Board of Trustees for WVIZ and the Maxus Foundation. In 1986 he received a Northern Ohio Live Award of Achievement and was the 1994 Person of the Year, presented by the Americans of Italian Heritage.

A. Malachi Mixon, III is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Invacare Corporation (IVC:NYSE), the leading worldwide manufacturer and distributor of medical products for the home health care market. 2000 sales exceeded $1 billion. Mr. Mixon serves on the boards of The Sherwin-Williams Corporation (NYSE), The Lamson & Sessions Company (NYSE), and Primus Venture Partners. He is also a founding investor in MCM Capital Corporation, a Cleveland leveraged buyout company. Additionally, he has been an active investor in several successful Cleveland-area ventures which became public companies including Royal Appliance Manufacturing Co. (NYSE), Steris Corp.(NYSE), and NCS HealthCare Inc (NASDAQ).

Mr. Mixon has received numerous honors and awards. In September 2000, Mr. Mixon was honored as the Master Innovator at the Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield/Small Business News Business Conference. In 1999 and 1992, he was awarded the International Business Executive of the Year Award by The Cleveland World Trade Association. Mal was inducted in 1996 as a charter member into the Cleveland Business Hall of Fame and in 1995 the National Association of Fund Raising Executives honored him as it Outstanding Philanthropist. He is a graduate of Leadership Cleveland (1986).

In addition to being Chairman of the Cleveland Institute of Music Board of Trustees, Mr. Mixon also serves as Chairman of the Board of The Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He also serves on the boards of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Tomorrow, Students in Free Enterprise and the Fred A. Lennon Charitable Trust. In 1992, Mr. Mixon established a chair in entrepreneurial studies at the Weatherhead School of Management at CWRU in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1997, he established the Mixon Scholarship in each new freshman class at Harvard College for students from Oklahoma and northeast Ohio.

Mr. Mixon is originally from Oklahoma and is proud of his Cherokee Indian descent. He is a graduate of Harvard College (BA) and the Harvard Business School (MBA). He served four years in the U.S. Marine Corps, attaining the rank of Captain.

2007-2008 CIM Board of Trustees

President
David Cerone

Officers of the Board of Trustees

Chairman
A. Malachi Mixon, III

Vice Chairmen
Brent M. Buckley
Charles S. Marston
Patrick S. Mullin/Treasurer
Joseph H. Thomas

Secretary
Barbara Bolton Gratry

Trustees

Honorary Trustees

International Council

Ex-Officio

Alumni Association
David W. Gilson

Friends of CIM
Jean Koznarek

Women's Committee
Patricia M. Gaskins