MWL Team Members
Scott Balogh & Stacy Banks, Founders & Executive Producers, Modern Warrior LIVE
Jaymes Poling, Creator of Modern Warrior LIVE
Dominick Farinacci, Creator of Modern Warrior LIVE
Al & Marty Sikes, Executive Producers, Modern Warrior LIVE on film
Emmett Murphy, Director of Modern Warrior LIVE
Dr. Patrick Palmieri, Mental Health & Education Advisor
Anthony & Debra Principi, Loren Schoenberg, Advisors
Piers Playfair & 23 Arts, Creative Co-Founder & Advisor
Ward Circle Strategies & The Flournoy Group, Public Relations
Cuini and Panichi, CPA and Business Advisor
Walter Haverfield, Legal Advisor
Scott Balogh
Since joining Mar-Bal in 1992, Scott Balogh has been building Mar-Bal, Inc. into a larger, more integrated and global company. This ambition will continue to be achieved through the company’s Strategic Plan, which has integrated industry talent and has strengthened core competencies and capabilities with investments, technology and innovation.
Scott, a native of Cleveland, OH is an entrepreneur and an industry leader with a proven record of product development, driving change and delivering continuous process improvement. Scott has been President and Chief Executive Officer since July 1998.
With Scott’s leadership, the company opened an R&D Technical Center in 2007 and expanded globally with the opening of a sales office in Shanghai, China in 2012. Today, Mar-Bal, Inc. is one of the top thermoset injection molding manufacturers in the United States, with three manufacturing facilities employing over 500 people.
Scott serves on the boards of Flambeau Inc., and the Ohio Manufacturers Association (OMA). He has been a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), Cleveland Chapter since 2004 and has served as chairman of the YPO Plastics Network since 2010.
In 2013, Scott was a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for the Northern Ohio area, this was the third time in four years that Scott has been recognized as a finalist for the award.
Prior to joining Mar-Bal, Scott was a successful National Sales Manager for the IBM Corporation for over 8 years.
Scott attended Capital University in Columbus, Ohio and graduated with a B.A. in Business Administration and Economics.
Scott Balogh & Stacy Banks are Executive Producers of Modern Warrior LIVE
Al Sikes
Al Sikes draws insights from wide-ranging experiences that began in the Midwest and moved east to the power cities of Washington and New York. Sikes’ leadership helped shape the arc of 21st century communication technologies from positions as Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and then President of Hearst New Media.
Sikes’ bold leadership at the FCC eliminating barriers that blocked new technologies, led to digital TV, radio and mobile phone services. He also began actions against Howard Stern that resulted in Stern wishing Sikes dead on his daily radio show. Sikes’ technology insights and his collaborations with technology pioneers were captured in his first book, Fast Forward. Beyond his work in business and government, Sikes draws on experiences chairing The Trinity Forum Board, tending a small apiary with his wife, Marty, and leading a growing jazz festival in his hometown of Easton, Maryland.
While living and working in New York City, Sikes founded READ ALLIANCE, which trains teenagers to tutor children with reading deficiencies. In 2004, the Manhattan Institute chose Sikes as one of eight winners of the Social Entrepreneurship Award. This award recognizes enterprising individuals who are helping Americans realize their full potential as citizens and members of society.
Al Sikes and Marty Sikes are Executive Producers of Modern Warrior LIVE on Film.
Patrick A. Palmieri, Ph.D.
Patrick A. Palmieri, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, the James and Vanita Oelschlager Chair in Traumatic Stress, and the Director of the Traumatic Stress Center at Summa Health System, Akron, OH. The Center focuses on providing empirically supported interventions for trauma-related problems, trains the current and next generations of health care providers on trauma-informed methods, and conducts research to advance the science of traumatic stress. Dr. Palmieri has been at Summa Health System since 2004 and holds appointments as Professor of Psychiatry at Northeast Ohio Medical University and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Kent State University. He received his BA from the State University of New York at Binghamton and his MA and PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He completed a clinical internship at the Danville (IL) VA Medical Center, a postdoctoral fellowship in quantitative psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and has been licensed in Ohio since 2006.
Dr. Palmieri's clinical, training, and research interests all revolve around the overarching theme of trauma informed care. Clinically, he specializes in the evidence-based assessment and cognitive-behavioral treatment of mood, anxiety, and stress-related disorders, especially Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and its commonly co-occurring conditions. He trains students and licensed health care providers on trauma informed best practices, and he provides training and consultation in trauma informed care for health care and other organizations. An active researcher, he has authored or co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications. His research has focused on risk and resilience factors of PTSD, the nature and trajectories of post-trauma responding, development of tools assessing PTSD and PTSD risk, evaluation of PTSD treatments, and the role of trauma and PTSD in physical health. In recent years his interests have expanded to include health care reform and the integration of primary care and behavioral health care, including trauma-informed primary care. He co-chaired the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services' Trauma Informed Care Advisory Committee and chairs the Summit County Trauma Informed Care Coalition, whose mission is to increase awareness and understanding within the community about trauma and its effects, to improve quality of care and access to evidence-based services, and to facilitate collaboration and a more coordinated response to trauma issues across systems. He also serves as the Health Care and Education Advisor for Modern Warrior Live, a musical theatrical project with a mission to promote dialogue between veterans and civilians, de-stigmatize PTSD, and promote post-trauma recovery and growth.
Dr. Palmieri serves as Mental Health Advisor to Modern Warrior LIVE