AJ Schaeffer
Chair, Vision 2015

Mr. Schaeffer is the Chair of Vision 2015, a non-profit collaboration of business, civic and community leaders and institutions implementing a 10-year regional, strategic blueprint for Northern Kentucky. As a Principal in the Drug Enhancement Company of America (DECA), a pharmaceutical technology development company based in Union, KY, he serves on DECA’s Executive Management Team, guiding corporate strategy in acquiring pharmaceutical companies and licensing or acquiring prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceutical products, drug delivery systems and related technologies. Schaeffer earned his J.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Law and is a 1996 graduate (summa cum laude) of Thomas More College. He was named to Greater Cincinnati’s Forty Under 40 in 2005 by the Cincinnati Business Courier and currently serves on the boards of GiveBack Cincinnati, the Northern Kentucky Fund, BRIDGES for a Just Community (formerly "NCCJ)", Agenda 360, and the Burlington Fire Protection District.