2009 Northeast Ohio Business Hall of Fame

Paul Bishop, chairman and CEO of H-P Products Inc.

“People want to believe in something. They want to work toward something. They want to take risks if they know there is a safety net of some type.”

William Considine, president and CEO of Akron Children’s Hospital

“There’s no time for a bad hair day. If you couldn’t find a parking spot when you came to work, if the IT system’s not working — those are real issues, but we can never make those issues the problem of the family and the patient we’re caring for.”

Bill Conway, chairman of Fairmount Minerals

“Mining sand really is a very simple business. But I’ve spent my life making it complicated.”

John Patrick ‘Packy’ Hyland, co-founder of Hyland Software

“He was also an amazing salesperson. Whatever you thought of him after you met him was whatever he wanted you to think. If you were a banker, you thought he was conservative. If you were a kid, you thought he was a rock star. That’s precisely what made him such a great entrepreneur.”

Michael Siegal, CEO of Olympic Steel

“Steel is a recyclable product. In a world going green, it’s terrific.”