PHLCVB Board of Directors

Updated: October 21, 2022

Officers

• Chair Karen Dougherty Buchholz
  Executive Vice President, Administration, Comcast Corporation

• 1st Vice Chair Leonard Buckley
  General Manager, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Philadelphia

• 2nd Vice Chair Stephanie Boyd
  Director of Sales & Marketing, Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority

• Secretary John Pierce
  Partner, Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr, LLP

• Treasurer William Adolph
  William F. Adolph & Co., Inc.

• President & CEO Gregg Caren
  President & CEO, Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau

Members

• Jeff Adeli
  Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers

• Stephen Aichele
  Partner, Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr, LLP

• Annie Allman
  CEO & General Manager, Reading Terminal Market

• Ed Baten
  General Manager, The W | Element Hotel

• Robert Bogle
  President & CEO, The Philadelphia Tribune

• Mike Bowman
  President & CEO, Valley Forge Tourism & Convention Board

• Steven Bradley
  Chairman of the Board, African American Chamber of Commerce

• John W. Chin
  Executive Director, Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation

• Bob Cosgrove
  General Manager, Sonesta Hotel Philadelphia

• The Honorable Darrell L. Clarke (ex-officio)
  President, Philadelphia City Council

• James Cuorato
  President & CEO, Independence Visitor Center Corporation

• Nicholas DeBenedictis
  Chairman Emeritus, Aqua America

• J. Donald Dumpson, PhD
  President & CEO, Diverse Arts Solutions

• Donna Farrell
  Vice President, Corporate Communications, Independence Blue Cross

• Joe Forkin
  President, Delaware River Waterfront Corporation

• John Grady
  Senior Vice President, Wexford Science & Technology

• Derek Green
  Former Member, Philadelphia City Council

• Edward R. Grose, CAE
  Executive Director, Greater Philadelphia Hotel Association

• William Hankowsky
  Former Chairman, President & CEO, Liberty Property Trust

• Sheila Hess (ex-officio)
  City Representative, City of Philadelphia

• Ashley Jordan, PhD
  President & CEO, African American Museum in Philadelphia

• Jeremy Jordan, PhD
  Associate Dean, Temple University School of Sport Tourism & Hospitality Management

• The Honorable James Kenney
  Mayor, City of Philadelphia

• John Kroll
  President, Keating Hospitality

• Nour Laasri
  General Manager, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown

• Paul Levy
  President & CEO, Center City District

• David Lipson, Jr.
  Chairman/CEO, Philadelphia Magazine

• Cynthia MacLeod
  Superintendent, Independence National Historical Park

• John McNichol
  President and CEO, Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority

• Joseph Meterchick
  Regional President, PNC Bank

• Anne Nadol
  Commerce Director, City of Philadelphia

• David Nasatir
  Chairman of the Firm, Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

• Anne Nevins
  President, Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

• Richard Odorisio
  SVP of Operations, Meyer Jabara Hotels

• Douglas Oliver
  Vice President, Governmental & External Affairs, PECO

• The Honorable Brian O’Neill
  Councilmember, Tenth District, Philadelphia City Council

• Bernie Prazenica
  President & General Manager, WPVI-TV 6ABC

• Colleen Barone Reidy
  Division Vice President, Macy’s

• Leslie Richards
  General Manager, SEPTA

• Hans Ritten
  Managing Director, Loews Philadelphia Hotel

• Richard Lee Snow
  Regional Development Director, UNCF, Washington DC Region

• Manuel Stamatakis
  President & CEO, Capital Management Enterprises

• Heather Steinman, Ph.D., MBA
  VP, Business Development, Executive Director, The Wistar Institute

• Lauren Swartz
  President & CEO, The World Affairs Council of Philadelphia

• Andrew Tod
  Executive Vice President, GF Management

• Angela Val
  President & CEO, Visit Philadelphia

• Colin Walsh
  General Manager, Sheraton Downtown Philadelphia

• Steve Wildemann
  President, Advanced Staging Productions

• William Wilson
  Principal In Charge, Synterra, Ltd.

• Kenneth Wong
  President, CIG Asia Ltd.

• Nicole Allen White
  Director of Government and External Affairs, Philadelphia Museum of Art

• Steve Wray
  Sr. Vice President and Principal, Econsult Solutions

• JoAnn Wrenn
  General Manager, The Logan

• Eric Zillmer
  Director, Global Sports Lab and Professor, Drexel University

Emeritus

• 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)