Cleveland-based KeyCorp is one of the nation's largest bank-based financial services companies, with assets of approximately $105 billion. Key companies provide investment management, retail and commercial banking, consumer finance, and investment banking products and services to individuals and companies throughout the United States and, for certain businesses, internationally. The company's businesses deliver their products and services through branches and offices; a network of 1,478 ATMs; telephone banking centers 1-800-KEY2YOU® (1-800-539-2968); and a website, Key.com®, that provides account access and financial products 24 hours a day.

Howard Berke is chairman, chief executive officer and co-founder of Konarka Technologies. He has nearly 30 years of hands-on management experience launching, building and leading both public and private technology companies. This includes 20 years of general management with full P&L responsibility for eight start-up companies and nine years of business development and marketing focusing on emerging technologies.

Berke has founded or co-founded 13 start-up companies and has initiated and completed numerous corporate acquisitions, mergers and R&D joint ventures in the US, Europe and Asia. He advises start-up companies and entrepreneurs in a wide range of fields including medical devices, biotech informatics, software, networking, telecom and energy technology.

Berke serves as Konarka’s delegate to the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers. He sits on the board of directors for the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), and has guest lectured on entrepreneurship at Yale, Harvard, MIT and elsewhere throughout the world.

Berke received his MBA from the University of Chicago and his BA from Yale University. His academic training includes finance, accounting. operations research, corporate law, architecture and physics.