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STEVEN A.
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Steven Singh is director of electric operations
for PECO and has worked for the company for
15 years. Currently, he has direct oversight of
500,000 customer accounts, 180 employees and
a $55 million budget for Bucks and Montgomery
counties. He is also responsible for developing the
company’s first ever CEMI program, which allows
direct feedback through town hall-style meetings
regarding service reliability, as well as customer
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Dr. Arturo Loaiza-Bonilla is chief of medical In one word describe Greater Philadelphia’s
oncology and medical director of research future: Technological
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Colleen Crowley is a partner in PwC’s asset and Proudest professional achievement: Being
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and has been a board member since 2011. Favorite job perk: Getting to work with such high-
caliber professionals, including my coworkers and
clients
Age: 34
Most surprising fact: The first time I was on an
Education: Graduated from The University of airplane was for my training as a new hire at PwC
Scranton in 2004 with a BS in accounting and
minor in finance What is your weirdest/coolest hobby: I love
visiting antique shops!
Residence: King of Prussia
What’s one thing you’ve crossed off your bucket
Birthplace: Bryn Mawr list: I was on a TV game show and won a shopping
What else do you want to accomplish by 40: My spree
husband and I are looking forward to growing our What’s your coolest celebrity encounter: I met
family, as we plan to welcome our third child this President Clinton outside a restaurant in New York
year! City
First job: Waitress at a local pizza place In one word describe Greater Philadelphia’s
Favorite stress release: Spending time with my future: Bright
husband and children What one word do you think best describes you:
Biggest whoops: I overslept on my first day of Dedicated
training for my college internship What one word would your coworkers use to Guilty pleasure:
Career theme song: Eye of the Tiger, the Rocky describe you: Passionate Chocolate
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Soup Co. Shah works to develop a common Career theme song: I Won’t Back Down by Tom
strategy to deliver growth around products’ Petty
marketing, sales, supply chain, and financing. Proudest professional achievement: Guest
Recently his team has been working toward the lecturing at my alma matter, University of
goal of $300 million in sales over the next three Michigan
years. Best advice received: Invest in yourself
Fantasy career: I love planning and sports so
Age: 39 planning sporting events may be the ultimate
Education: Bachelor’s from University of career
Michigan; MBA from Northwestern University Favorite job perk: Free Tim Tams (the best
Residence: I currently live in Bucks County but in cookie out there)
the process of moving to Lower Merion Most surprising fact: I haven’t read a book in 20
Birthplace: Royal Oak, Mich. years (I just do audiobooks)
What else do you want to accomplish by What is your weirdest/coolest hobby: Blackjack
40: After recently losing in overtime in the What’s one thing you’ve crossed off your
championship game for my 10-year-old son’s bucket list: I took my 10-year-old son to India to Guilty pleasure:
basketball league, I would like to coach his meet his great-grandparents and see where my Rita’s mint chocolate
baseball team to a title! parents grew up chip water ice
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We congratulate
Johanna M. Simon,
who represents the
best of our young
leaders and technical
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field of geostructural
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from Towson University of a serial hobbyist, ranging from rock climbing,
Residence: Bucks County glass blowing, cycling, ceramics, hiking, yoga etc.
I’m always interested in a new hobby.
Birthplace: New Jersey
What’s one thing you’ve crossed off your
What else do you want to accomplish by 40: bucket list: Seeing the Northern Lights
Travel more, spend more time with family and
continue to dedicate myself to my work and What’s your coolest celebrity encounter:
achieve even greater success Recently attended the taping for the 2,000th
episode for the Rachael Ray Show with a front-
First job: Working for my father at his custom row seat to see Oprah Winfrey, Emeril Lagasse,
screen printing and embroidery business, Aztec Buddy the Cake Boss, 50 Cent and Tony Bennett
Graphics. as special surprise guests.
Favorite stress release: Yoga In one word describe Greater Philadelphia’s
Biggest whoops: Showing up to a meeting in future: Determined
navy pants and a black suit coat, after mistakenly What one word do you think best describes
packing the mismatch the night before the trip. you: Creative
Career theme song: The Distance by Cake What one word would your coworkers use to Guilty pleasure:
Proudest professional achievement: Every day. describe you: Sincere People watching
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1884. The bank is now the only female-owned Biggest whoops: Waking up one night parched in a
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a few in the United States. Aller was recently Enough said … it took me weeks to recover from that
selected for a second term on the Minority mistake
Depository Institution Advisory Council in Career theme song: Build Me Up Buttercup by The
Washington, D.C. Foundations
Proudest professional achievement: The
Age: 37 Philadelphia Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 award,
of course!
Education: Undergraduate, Princeton University;
master’s degree: Oxford University, Oxford, United Best advice received: Believe in yourself … the sky
Kingdom; JD: Harvard Law School is the limit. I have been very fortunate to have strong
female mentors in my life who have encouraged me
Residence: Horse farm in West Chester
to shoot for the stars!
Birthplace: Chester County
Fantasy career: Jockey
What else do you want to accomplish by 40:
Favorite job perk: Flexibility – I have two young
Continue to grow in my career while spending
children and with constant activities, doctor’s
quality time with my family.
appointments, snow days and “teacher in-service
First job: Bank teller at the National Bank of Malvern days” I often have to be out of the office Guilty pleasure: Date
(starting at age 14)
Most surprising fact: I love investing in residential nights with my darling
Favorite stress release: Running. I have run five real estate and actively do so in my free time husband Steven
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Citizens Bank, Jamillah Moore runs a $2 billion Developing young diverse banking professionals
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MO RUSHDY
As managing partner of The Riverwards Group,
Mo Rushdy helped bring in close to $30 million
in revenue just last year. After the financial crash
in late 2008, Rushdy teamed up with a colleague
to start developing real estate in Fishtown. Now
a decade later he employees 12 staffers and 30
contractors. What started as a five-homes-per-year
business in 2012 has grown to 110 homes-per-year
projected for 2018. Rushdy has plans to deliver
350 homes over the next three years.
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KIM A. First job: Cashier at a flower shop (Wendy’s Most surprising fact: I went to college to study
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processing samples from sea turtles to determine
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in validating what types of cancerous tumors I used to denote significant differences between What is your coolest hobby: SCUBA diving
to target for investigation with Inovio’s DNA groups were replaced with yin-yang symbols.
therapies. Because of her work, Inovio is now in It was a valuable lesson in the importance of
clinical trials with a potential universal therapy using the speaker ready rooms to preview the
to fight numerous cancers such as breast, lung, presentation!
pancreatic, bladder and brain cancer.
Career theme song: Get Back Up Again by Anna
Kendrick
Age: 37 Proudest professional achievement:
Education: Ph.D. in cell and molecular biology Completing my Ph.D.
from the University of Pennsylvania, BS in biology Best advice received: In graduate school, I asked
from Eckerd College a very successful researcher and physician what
Residence: East Norriton was his best advice for young graduate students
Birthplace: Pottstown just starting out in their careers. As he treated
late-stage cancer patients, he made it a point to
What else do you want to accomplish by
stress the importance of a work-life balance, “No
40: Professionally — help advance Inovio’s
one ever says on their deathbed, ‘I wish I spent Guilty pleasure:
immunotherapies towards licensure through
more time at work’” Playing Candy Crush
analysis of immunological and biomarker data
from ongoing clinical trials. Personally — run Fantasy career: This is a tough question because (I’m on level 2011)
another half-marathon I really am exactly where I want to be in my career and reality TV shows
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CCS Fundraising, a national strategic consulting Career theme song: Eye of the Tiger by Survivor
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and fundraising management firm that helps or Most People are Good by Luke Bryan
nonprofits grow. In 2017, Hagin opened the
Proudest professional achievement: Making
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firm responsible for managing the firm’s 200-plus Best advice received: My pastor quoting Howard
consultants. Locally, his team has tripled team Thurman, “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask
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revenues from $2 million to $6 million. what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because
what the world needs is people who have come
Age: 38. alive”
Education: Wharton MBA and Boston College BA Fantasy career: Storm chaser
Residence: Bryn Mawr Favorite job perk: Running campaigns with and
learning from extraordinary leaders
Birthplace: Smithtown, N.Y.
Most surprising fact: I played soccer in the
What else do you want to accomplish by Olympic Development Program (ODP) growing up
40: Explore Antarctica and check off all seven
continents What is your weirdest/coolest hobby: I love
snowboarding
First job: Soccer coach at 16
What’s one thing you’ve crossed off your
Favorite stress release: Morning exercise at the bucket list: Skydiving in New Zealand
Union League during the week. Hiking in Valley
Green with my wife and our two daughters on the What’s your coolest celebrity encounter:
weekends Trekking Mount Rainier with Dave Hahn, a
legendary American mountaineer who has
Biggest whoops: Reading (instead of presenting)
summited Everest 15 times
word-for-word a beginner’s fundraising training
manual to a sophisticated finance committee In one word describe Greater Philadelphia’s Guilty pleasure:
in N.Y. my second week at CCS. Everyone was future: Dynamic Chocolate chip cookies
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retiree benefit management firm, in 2005. Neither Best advice received: No matter what you do
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a broker nor a consultant, Labor First has achieved work your hardest and the rest will follow.
a rare balancing act of delivering optimal health
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the insurance carrier side funding model. Since Most surprising fact: I barely graduated high
2015, the company has quadrupled in size and net school
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Channel for TD Bank, Lindsay Sacknoff leads over every member of the first team I built at TD Bank
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2,000 employees. This team serves almost 20 eight years ago, go on to be recognized at TD
million customer inquiries every year via phone, Bank’s “Wow Awards” as they grew into successful
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GenNext community, a cohort of more than 5,000 if you do something you like with people you like
emerging leaders across the company.
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Practice Group. She leads over 40 attorneys in 21 you won’t be able to advocate for your clients.
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SHANE
HOSTETTER
Shane Hostetter is the global controller and
principal accounting officer for Quaker Chemical,
an international publicly traded chemicals
manufacturer. He has directed financial diligence
and integration on Quaker’s 13 most recent
acquisitions, which ranged from $5 million to $60
million and more than doubled the size of the
company. Inside Quaker, he is known as a model
supervisor who stresses work/life balance for his
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Craft beer. I am one
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MATTHEW
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Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld LLC Partner
Matthew Faranda-Diedrich, works in the financial
services industry representing banks, servicers
and insurers in litigation and other matters. He also
volunteers to lead his firm’s mentoring program,
offering advice and guidance. Recently he served
as lead trial counsel to a Fortune 100 electric
holding company in the biggest commercial
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BERNARD
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As vice president of retail strategy and distribution
for Penn Community Bank, Bernard Tynes has
direct supervision of product management,
sales and service strategy and innovation for
the corporation. One of his most significant
accomplishment is the creation of a literacy
and bank-at-work program called Workplace
Connections.
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What’s your coolest celebrity encounter: My
little cousin is an up-and-coming actor, he’s in a
number of commercials and has had a few debuts
as extras in movies. So, I’d say my cousin, Perris
Drew
In one word describe Greater Philadelphia’s
future: Bright
JEFF FUSCO
Guilty pleasure:
I have a sweet
tooth, so candy and
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Best advice received: I did an externship with
Age: 30 a plastic surgeon during my freshman year at
Education: BA, Cornell University; MBA, the Cornell. His advice to me was that there are many
Johnson School at Cornell University ways to contribute to health care and medical
Residence: Gwynedd Valley sciences beyond a career in medicine. This
helped shape me into the business person that I
Birthplace: Norristown
am today
What else do you want to accomplish by
40: I would like to continue to grow Ancillare, Fantasy career: Formula F1 race car driver
specifically focusing on our A-TKO service lines Favorite job perk: I am able to work from
and transform the clinical supply chain industry anywhere in the world
from protocol planning through study close-out
for our sponsor organizations. In addition, I want Most surprising fact: Despite my Italian-
to work more closely with Cornell University to American background, I do not like the taste of
help them continue the goal of helping build garlic at all and never cook with it
young entrepreneurs around the world. Finally, I What is your weirdest/coolest hobby: I am an Guilty pleasure:
would like to learn how to fly an airplane and get avid automotive enthusiast and spend most of my Ghurka cigars with
my pilot’s license. free time playing with cars friends
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KRISTIN
HOUSTON
Kristin Houston is Boeing vice president, Tiltrotor
Programs and director of the Bell-Boeing V-22
Osprey aircraft program. Houston leads the
design, production, and sustainment of the V-22,
which holds a program record of more than 450
aircraft, divided between the U.S. Marine Corps,
Air Force, Navy and Japan. She has profit and loss
responsibility for a billion-dollar business with
nearly 1,000 employees.
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the region as hospitality reporter Kenneth Hilario sits down with Mike Bowman,
President & CEO of the Valley Forge Tourism & Convention Board to discuss what’s
happening in Montgomery County.
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topics. Simon started at Schnabel in 2006 and and cool projects
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manager on 11 design and construction projects. Drexel Dragon (mascot) for four-and-a-half years
and got to perform at Citizen’s Bank Park (twice)
and Madison Square Garden.
Age: 34
What is your weirdest/coolest hobby: Baking
Education: BS, architectural engineering; BS and out-of-the-ordinary flavor cupcakes and pies, and
MS in civil engineering, all from Drexel University turning almost any mixed drink recipe into a Jello
Residence: East Fallowfield shot.
Birthplace: Bethlehem What’s one thing you’ve crossed off your bucket
What else do you want to accomplish by 40: Be list: Going to a Mass said by the pope – actually, I
the best mom, wife, and geostructural engineer got to sing in the choir for it.
that I can be and continue to work on awesome What’s your coolest celebrity encounter: César
and meaningful projects Pelli – architect of the Petronas Towers
First job: Wedding singer In one word describe Greater Philadelphia’s
Favorite stress release: Playing piano and baking future: Promising
Biggest whoops: Losing my car key at a job site. What one word do you think best describes you:
We searched the whole site and concluded that Industrious Guilty pleasure:
it must have ended up grouted into the micropile What one word would your coworkers use to Eating – I’m a big fan
that we were installing describe you: Resourceful of food!
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Congratulations to
CONGRATULATIONS Megan Holmes, AIA,
TO JAMILLAH MOORE Senior Principal and
and all of this year’s Forty Under 40 honorees Managing Leader,
for being recognized
in the Philadelphia
Business Journal’s
2018 40 Under 40!
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A rising star attorney with Klasko Immigration Law
energized before a deadline, anything by System Hands down, Dr. Michio Kaku; he is brilliant and
Partners LLP, Anu Nair relocated to Philadelphia in
of a Down, Disturbed, etc. eloquent. He autographed a book I was reading
June 2012 to join the firm’s EB-5 practice. EB-5 was
created by the federal government to stimulate Proudest professional achievement: Choosing – Physics of the Impossible. (Inscription reads
foreign investment and job creation. She quickly great team members. Every time I see my team “Nothing is Impossible”). Most of the time, I don’t
grew that practice and the EB-5 program has help each other, stay late and come in on the have my glasses on, so I am sure I have missed
attracted about $1 billion worth of investment in weekends, or walk into work during huge events, other celebrity encounters
the Philadelphia area. the pope weekend, storms, parades, in order to
meet deadlines, I know the best thing I’ve ever
done is pick great people
Age: 35
Best advice received: Choose to be kind
Education: JD
Fantasy career: Anything with animals
Residence: Philadelphia
Favorite job perk: The firm has so many great
Birthplace: India
events. We hold two big events per year, but
What else do you want to accomplish by 40: it feels like every week, we’re having mini-
Get my pilot’s license celebrations. So. Much. Cake.
First job: Math and science tutor Most surprising fact: I believe in ghosts despite
Favorite stress release: Organizing. It sounds having a law degree Guilty pleasure: I’m a
really lame but there’s something cathartic about What is your weirdest/coolest hobby: I love lawyer, I’m never guilty
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and Vascular Center, I hope to get more involved known for being incredibly Type A. But while I
in the strategic planning side of health care epitomize that stereotype at work, I am generally
Dr. Elizabeth Valentine is an assistant professor beyond the operating room world where I typically a very laidback and easygoing person at home. I
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responsible for overseeing the daily conduct of all husband and two sons, ages 5 and 3. It is hard to
along an active volcano. I love to travel anywhere,
of the anesthetics provided for vascular surgery. feel stressed when I am with them!
but that was definitely an amazing trip
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has to be a toss up between Comfortably Numb think I’ve ever had a celebrity encounter — and in
Age: 36 by Pink Floyd and The Sound of Silence by Simon my line of work, if I did, I couldn’t tell you!
Education: BS in biology from the Schreyer and Garfunkel!
Honors College at Penn State, followed by an MD Proudest professional achievement: My
from Penn State College of Medicine. I completed proudest moment was probably making it through
my residency training in Anesthesiology and my first day as an attending physician. After so
Critical Care at the Hospital of the University many years of training, it was an amazing — if
of Pennsylvania with a focus in anesthesia for surreal — feeling to be finally on my own
vascular surgery and liver transplantation
Best advice received: When I was just starting
Residence: Graduate Hospital neighborhood my career, one of my mentors advised me to
Birthplace: Born and raised in Pittsburgh always say yes while I was junior faculty. His
rationale was that you can never know where an
What else do you want to accomplish by
opportunity will take you. He was absolutely right
40: From a clinical standpoint, the biggest
opportunity I am looking forward to is the opening Fantasy career: I’m doing it! I was one of those
of our new patient pavilion at the Hospital kids who always knew I wanted to be a doctor so
of the University of Pennsylvania, which will that I could help people. Anesthesiology was a
open in 2021. This new clinical facility will add perfect fit for me. I wouldn’t trade my career for Guilty pleasure:
approximately 500 new beds and approximately anything! Sleeping in!
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PROGRAM SPONSORS
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CHAD
STENDER
Chad Stender is director of investments and
operations at SeventySix Capital, a local venture
capital firm. He works with two of the company’s
most rapidly growing clients: Thrive Commerce
and N3rd Street Gamers. Additionally, he is a
strategic partner at Rubicon Talent, a sports and
entertainment agency that represents a wide range
of clients including NFL and NBA stars, Heisman
Trophy Winners, Olympic icons, and celebrity
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Guilty pleasure:
Swedish Fish
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VICTORIA A.
GUILFOYLE
Tori Guilfoyle is a partner focusing on finance,
restructuring and bankruptcy for Blank Rome LLP.
Her clients include PNC Bank, who she regularly
represents in bankruptcy cases across the nation.
Guilfoyle represented the bank in 2017 as the
lead associate on a case with Central Grocers Inc.,
where the agent for secured lenders owed more
than $205 million.
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Guilty Pleasure:
Binge watching Game of Thrones,
Shameless, Homeland, Billions,
The Wire, etc.
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JONATHAN
MORGAN
Jonathan Morgan is the President of Morgan
Properties’ JV Management LLC, a company which
has acquired more than $3 billion of multifamily
investments and 23,000 units over the last five
years – numbers that have more than doubled its
previous portfolio. His company is an affiliate of his
father’s Morgan Properties, which was started the
same year Jonathan was born, 1985.
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BRANDON
DIXON
Brandon Dixon is chief operating officer for Tower
Investments, the very active commercial and
residential real estate company founded by CEO
Bart Blatstein. Dixon has full responsibility for the
company’s portfolio in Atlantic City, Philadelphia
and the surrounding suburbs. He was especially
instrumental in the reopening of the Showboat
Hotel and House of Blues in Atlantic City.
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First job: Footlocker
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Guilty pleasure:
Watching Reality TV
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LISHA
DAVIS
Lisha Davis is the head of Vanguard’s new and
much-heralded Innovation Studio in Center
City Philadelphia, where she is responsible for
overseeing Vanguard’s innovation strategy. A
longtime entrepreneur, Davis leads a team of about
35 strategists, innovators and specialists whose
work is focused on finding new and better ways to
help investors reach investment success.
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J. ANDREW
GREENBLATT
Andrew Greenblatt is CEO of the Philadelphia Film
Society, a nonprofit that produces the Philadelphia
Film Festival and creates opportunities for diverse
communities to experience film. During his tenure,
the society has grown from a $350,000 budget
and two employees to a $3 million budget and 18
employees. Greenblatt is also a movie producer
whose films have premiered at the Sundance and
South by Southwest festivals.
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social policy development. The choices we make with various organizations across the region. We
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PATRICK
MURRAY
Patrick Murray founded STP Investment Services
in 2008. As CEO, he has since grown the company
– a capital markets focused service organization
specializing in middle and back office investment
operations – to more than 100 employees and
expanded into Bangalore, India. STP was named to
the Philadelphia Business Journal’s Best Places to
Work list five times.
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JOE
MEADE
Joseph Meade is chief of staff to LaSalle University
President Collen Hanycz. He is also executive
director of government and community affairs
for the university. Prior to joining LaSalle, Meade
served as a deputy secretary in the Pennsylvania
Department of Community and Economic
Development.
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MATTHEW
KULL
Matthew Kull co-founded RevZilla in 2007. Over the
next nine years, he helped build the company into
a major online retailer for motorcycle enthusiasts.
In 2016, RevZilla joined with Cycle Gear, with
134 retail stores, under the holding company
COMOTO. Kull was named CEO of the combined
company in 2017 and now leads 1,300 employees
across the country.
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teach high-impact courses in organizational behavior. Her research
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