Executive Committee

Chair:               John B. Wright, II, Esq., retired, Senior Counsel, Ballard Spahr, LLP

Treasurer:         Dave Reichman, C.P.A., Audit Manager, Isadaner & Company LLC

Secretary:         William H. Schaefer, Ph.D., retired, Merck & Co.

Members at Large

Lisa S. Aronson, M.B.A., P.C.C., leadership and executive coach

Catherine M. Cahill, President & CEO, Mann Center for the Performing Arts

Susan Huffman, economic development consultant, retired

Christopher R. B. Merritt, M.D., F.A.C.R.


Joan Chait, arts advocate

Jonathan Eifert, Founder & Creative Director, Gold Sound Media LLC

Jana M. Mossey, Ph.D., Professor, Drexel University School of Public Health

Gina Range, Vice President of Development, Opera Philadelphia

Karen Slack, soprano; Artistic Advisor, Portland Opera; Co-Chair, Women’s Opera Network at Opera America; Co-Director, Opera Program at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Alberta, Canada 

Fred Snitzer, Managing Director, Prudent Management Associates

Mark N. Steinberger, Esq., arts advocate

Stanford Thompson, Executive Director, Equity Arc; Principal, Goldsmith Strategies; Founder, Play On Philly

Lou Vilardo, retired, Senior Vice President – Investments, Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC

David Wolfsohn, Esq., Partner, Duane Morris, LLP

Simon Woods, President & CEO, League of American Orchestras