Board
2020-2021 Board of Directors
SRDC’s Board of Directors provides vision and direction for Schuylkill Banks. A dynamic partnership of public and private entities is in place to provide effective leadership and governance.
- Chairman: Gerard H. Sweeney - President & CEO, Brandywine Realty Trust
- Vice Chairman: Brian Keech, Senior Vice President, Office of Government & Community Relations, Drexel University
- Secretary: Jamie M. Gershkow - Associate, Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP
- Treasurer: Anne Papageorge - Vice President, Facilities and Real Estate, University of Pennsylvania
- Marc J. Armstrong - Managing Principal, Aon
- Madeline Bell - Chief Executive Officer, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Patricia Brown - Director of Account Management, Philadelphia Municipal & Commercial Business, Vicinity Energy
- Kathy Cacciola - Vice President, Enterprise Sustainability, Aramark
- Michael Carroll, PE - Deputy Managing Director, Office of Transportation and Infrastructure, City of Philadelphia
- Byron S. Comati (through 9/2020) - Vice President of Corporate Planning, Amtrak
- Scott Cooper - President & CEO, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
- Pasquale T. Deon - Chairman, SEPTA
- Harold T. Epps (through 6/2020) - Director of Commerce, City of Philadelphia
- Anne Fadullon - Director of Planning & Development, City of Philadelphia
- Gregory J. Gatta
- Dr. Amy Gutmann - President, University of Pennsylvania
- Edward Hazzouri, Esq. - Chairman, Hazzouri & Associates, LLC
- Jennifer Heller (through 8/2020)
- Sylvie Gallier Howard - Acting Director of Commerce, City of Philadelphia
- Kenneth E. Lawrence - Vice Chair, Montgomery County Board of Commissioners
- Kathy Lentini - Director, Energy & Marketing Services, PECO
- Joseph McGinn - Vice President of Public Affairs, Energy Transfer
- Anne Nevins - President, Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation
- Robert Nix, III, Esq. - President, Pleasant News, Inc.
- Rodney J. Oglesby - Resident Vice President of Philadelphia, NJ and NYC Government Affairs, CSX
- Kathryn Ott Lovell - Commissioner, Philadelphia Parks & Recreation
- Rebecca Rhynhart - City Controller, City of Philadelphia
- John Westrum - CEO and Chairman, Westrum Development Company
2020-2021 Steering Committee
SRDC's Steering Committee provides additional guidance and support for SRDC in its mission to revitalize the tidal Schuylkill River.
- Duane Bumb - Senior Deputy Director of Commerce, Philadelphia Department of Commerce
- Samantha Corson - Greenberg Traurig, LLP
- Bill Goetz
- Alan Greenberger - Drexel University
- Melissa Heller - Commonwealth Strategies, Inc.
- Jocelyn Hill - Director of Public Affairs & Assistant General Counsel, Consolidated Rail Corporation
- Douglas G. Hock * - Executive Vice President & CEO, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- John Hogan, Sr. - The Mariner Insurance Group
- David Kanthor - Transportation Planner, Philadelphia City Planning Commission
- Mark Kocent - University Architect, University of Pennsylvania
- Paul Levy - President & CEO, Center City District
- John Mondlak - Senior Director of Real Estate Development, City of Philadelphia
- Aparna Palantino - Deputy Commissioner, Philadelphia Parks & Recreation
- Nancy Trainer - Drexel University
*represents Madeline Bell on Board