Chair: Karen Dougherty Buchholz
Executive Vice President, Administration, Comcast Corporation
Vice Chair: Leonard Buckley
General Manager, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Philadelphia
Vice Chair: John McNichol
President & CEO, PA Convention Center Authority
Secretary: John Pierce
Partner, Saul Ewing LLP
Treasurer: Jeff Adeli
Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers
President & CEO: Gregg Caren
President & CEO, Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau
Darryll Adams
Managing Director, Loews Philadelphia
Stephen Aichele
Partner, Saul Ewing LLP
Annie Allman
CEO & General Manager, Reading Terminal Market
Lakshman Amaranayaka
Vice President, American Airlines at PHL Airport
Ed Baten
General Manager, The W | Element Hotel
Romona Riscoe Benson
Director, Corporate & Community Impact, PECO
Robert Bogle
President & CEO, The Philadelphia Tribune
Mike Bowman
President & CEO, Valley Forge Tourism & Convention Board
Chellie Cameron
President & CEO, The Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia
Tom Caramanico
Executive Director, Independence National Historical Trust
John W. Chin
Executive Director, Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation
Nicholas DeBenedictis
Chairman Emeritus, Aqua America
J. Donald Dumpson, PhD
President & CEO, Diverse Arts Solutions
Donna Farrell
Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, Independence Blue Cross
Larry Dubinski
President, Franklin Institute
Joe Forkin
President, Delaware River Waterfront Corporation
Dan Funk
Associate Dean & Professor, Temple University School of Sport Tourism & Hospitality Management
John Grady
Senior Vice President, Wexford Science & Technology
Edward R. Grose, CAE
Executive Director, Greater Philadelphia Hotel Association
Regina Hairston
President, African American Chamber of Commerce
William Hankowsky
Former Chairman, President & CEO, Liberty Property Trust
Jodie Harris
President, Philadelphia Industrial Development Corp.
Carol Hunt
Vice President of Finance, PA Convention Center Authority
Kenyatta Johnson, (Ex Officio)
City Council President
Jazelle Jones, (Ex Officio)
City Representative and Director of Special Events, City of Philadelphia
Ashley Jordan, PhD
President & CEO, African American Museum in Philadelphia
John Kroll
President, Keating Hospitality
Paul Levy
Former President & CEO, Center City District
David Lipson, Jr.
Chairman/CEO, Philadelphia Magazine
Kathryn Ott Lovell
President & CEO, Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporation
Alba Martinez, (Ex Officio)
Director of Commerce, City of Philadelphia
Joseph Meterchick
Regional President, PNC Bank
David Nasatir
Chairman of the Firm, Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP
Patrick Oates, PhD
Vice President, Strategy & Business Development, EMSCO
Richard Odorisio
SVP of Operations, Meyer Jabara Hotels
Bernie Prazenica
President & General Manager, WPVI-TV 6ABC
Eric Pryor
President and CEO, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Ken Reed
General Manager, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
Colleen Barone Reidy
Division Vice President, Macy’s
Jacklin Rhoads, (Ex Officio)
Director of Public Affairs & Marketing, Office of Governor Josh Shapiro
Leslie Richards
General Manager, SEPTA
Atif Saeed
President & CEO, Philadelphia International Airport
Steve Sims, (Ex Officio)
Superintendent of Independence National Historical Park
Richard Lee Snow
Regional Development Director, UNCF, Washington DC Region
Manuel Stamatakis
President & CEO, Capital Management Enterprises
Stephen Starr
STARR Restaurant Group
Sasha Suda
George D. Widener Director and CEO, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Lauren Swartz
President & CEO, The World Affairs Council of Philadelphia
Matías Tarnopolsky
President & CEO, Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center
Andrew Tod
Executive Vice President, GF Management
Angela Val
President & CEO, Visit Philadelphia
Steve Wildemann
President, Advanced Staging Productions
Kenneth Wong
President, CIG Asia Ltd.
Eric Zillmer
Director, Global Sports Lab and Professor, Drexel University
George Beach
Chairman, President & CEO, Beach Creative Communications
A. Bruce Crawley, Chairman Emeritus
President & CEO, Millennium 3 Management
The Honorable Dwight Evans
U.S. Congressman
Daniel Fitzpatrick, CFA
President & CEO, Citizens Bank – PA/NJ/DE
William Giles, Chairman Emeritus
The Philadelphia Phillies
Robert Jaeger, CHA
President, WNW Hospitality Group
Edward Slevin
Retired Partner, Ballard Spahr LLP
Marian Tasco
Philadelphia City Councilmember (retired)