Board of Advisers

Chair: James C. Byerly

Vice-Chair: Christine Sears

Treasurer: Richard E. Bentz

Secretary: Madlyn L. Hanes

Nancy Cramer Aronson
President
Capitol Commercial Corporation

Christopher S. Barrett
President and CEO
Pennsylvania Dutch Convention and Visitors Bureau

Richard E. Bentz
President
Edenridge Enterprises, Inc.

David E. Black
President and CEO
Harrisburg Regional Chamber
Capital Region Economic Development Corporation

David A. Brinjac, P.E.
Principal
Brinjac Engineering

James C. Byerly
President and CEO
HDH Byerly

Joseph M. Capita
President and CEO
Tri-County United Way

William Christ
Retired Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer
Hershey Foods Corp.

Paul C. Coppock

Dominic "Nick" DiFrancesco
Commissioner, Dauphin County

J. Glenn Ebersole, Jr.
J. G. Ebersole Associates
and The Renaissance Group in Lancaster

Gary Eichelberger
County Commisioner
Cumberland County

Joseph Grosso
Business Loan Officer
Members First Federal Credit Union

Madlyn L. Hanes
Chancellor
Penn State Capital College

Kevin M. Harter
Senior Vice President
Life Sciences Greenhouse of Central Pennsylvania

Michael L. Hund, Esq.
Shareholder, Buchanan Ingersoll

Albert H. Kramer
Senior Vice President, Operations
D&E Communications, Inc.

Melissa Kutz
Administrator, Rehabilitation Hospital
Pinnacle Health
Community General Osteopathic Hospital

Barbara A. Layne
Director, Professional Drug Education and Information
PA Medical Society

Franklin D. Linn Sr.
President, Lower Swatara Township
Board of Commissioners

Steven J. Masterson, CPA
Tax Partner
Beard Miller Company, LLP

Gerald K. Morrison, Esq.
McNees, Wallace & Nurick

Edward Nielsen
Representing Stephen Reed, Mayor
Director, Office of Economic Development and Special Projects
City of Harrisburg

Sondra Osler
Civic Leader

K.D. Patel
Co-founder, Hersha Hospitality Management, L.P.

John D. Payne
Representative
Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 106th District

Charles C. Pearson, Jr.
Chairman of the Board
Waypoint Financial Corporation

Ralph E. Peters
CEO and Chairman of the Board Emeritus
Benatec Associates

Vincent J. Pinizzotto
Regional Vice President
United Concordia Companies, Inc.

Robert Reid
Mayor
Borough of Middletown

Richard T. Reynolds
Owner/Founder
Reynolds Construction Management

Napoleon Saunders

Christine Sears
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Penn National Insurance

Fred Sembach
President, Penn State Harrisburg Alumni Society

Kathleen A. Smarilli

William M. Stout
Chairman and CEO
Gannett Fleming, Inc.

Mark Whitmoyer
President, Conservation Concepts, Inc.

Robert J. Woelfling
Vice President, Global Sourcing and Operations Strategy
The Hershey Company

Harry I. Yaverbaun
Certified Public Accountant

Richard Ziegler
Owner/President
R.E. Ziegler Remodeling and Construction Company