PHLCVB Board of Directors

Officers

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

Members

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
Retired 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 Historical Trust

John W. Chin
Executive Director, Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation

Anthony Conti
Chair, Visit Philadelphia

Nicholas DeBenedictis
Chairman Emeritus, Aqua America

Larry Dubinski
President, Franklin Institute

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

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

Ryan Fleur
President and CEO, Philadelphia Orchestra and Ensemble Arts

Joe Forkin
President, Delaware River Waterfront Corporation

Amy Giddings
Interim Associate Dean & Professor, Temple STHM

John Grady
Senior Vice President, Wexford Science & Technology

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

Prema Gupta
President & CEO, Center City District

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
Retired Vice President of Finance, PA Convention Center Authority

The Honorable Kenyatta Johnson, (Ex Officio)
Philadelphia 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

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
Chair of the Board, PA Convention Center Authority

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

Ken Reed
General Manager, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown

Colleen Barone Reidy
Division Vice President, Macy’s

Anne Ryan (Ex Officio)
Deputy Secretary of Tourism, PA Department of Community & Economic Development

Leslie Richards
Professor of Practice, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania

Atif Saeed
President & CEO, Philadelphia International Airport

Scott Sauer
Interim General Manager, SEPTA

Steve Sims
Superintendent of Independence National Historical Park

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

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

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 of Athletics Emeritus, 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)