On the Boards

Recent appointments to area boards or changes involving local executives

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Peter F. Volanakis

was elected to the board of directors of te

Vanguard Group

, a Valley Forge investment management company. He is president and chief operating officer of Corning Inc., Corning, N.Y.

AeA, a Washington, D.C., high-tech trade association, named

Peter J. Boni

chairperson of the board. He is president and chief executive officer of Safeguard Scientifics Inc., Wayne.

Philabundance,

a nonprofit hunger-relief organization that serves the Delaware Valley, named the following as board members:

Pam Rainey Lawler,

founder of Philabundance, is secretary. She is director of development of MicroSociety Inc., Philadelphia.

Mark Bender

is vice president at Bermultinational Limited, Silver Spring, Md.

Sylvia Bronner

is senior vice president for public affairs at Citizens Bank, Philadelphia.

Alan E. Casnoff

is president of DLV Inc., and partner at P&A Associates.

Jesus Hernandez

is general manager, Goya Foods Inc., West Deptford.

Michelle Hong

is vice president at Brown Brothers Harriman, Philadelphia.

Michael W. Keba

is director of operations and merchandising for Giant Food Stores L.L.C., Carlisle.

Art-Reach, a nonprofit that makes cultural experiences more accessible to people with disabilities and economic disadvantages, named

Jerilyn K. Dressler

treasurer and

Caryn Coff

board member. Dressler is an associate with Your Part-Time Controller L.L.C. Coff is owner and director of Visiting Angels.

Easter Seals of Southeastern Pennsylvania named the following officers and members to its 2008-2009 board:

John C. Miller

, vice principal of Braithwaite Communications Inc., Philadelphia, is president.

Cummins Catherwood Jr.

, managing director of Boenning & Scattergood Inc., Conshohocken, is secretary.

Linda A. McDevitt

, managing member, Tax Advisors L.L.C., Mount Laurel, is treasurer.

Brian Casey

is director of technical services at Radian Group Inc., Philadelphia.

Jeannie Liggett

is regional government-affairs manager at Exelon Generation, Pottstown.

Kenneth E. Lawrence Jr.

is senior vice president, community and public affairs, at Temple University.

Harris S. Fishman

is president and chief executive officer of First Financial Group, Bala Cynwyd.

Erik W. Fay

is project manager at the Sullivan Co., Essington.

Richard A. Enders

is managing partner at Century 21 Alliance, Yardley.

Roy Yaffe

is an attorney at Gould Yaffe & Golden, Philadelphia.

Jason E. Reisman

was elected to the Philadelphia regional board of the

Anti-Defamation League

, a nonprofit civil rights organization. He is a partner at Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel L.L.P., Philadelphia.

Musicopia Inc.,

a Philadelphia nonprofit musical educational organization, named members

Jeffrey Grossman

and

Ann Conlin Tannebaum

to its board. Grossman is a partner at Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young L.L.P., Philadelphia. Conlin Tannebaum is a vice president of sales and marketing at Conlin's Digital Print & Copy Center, King of Prussia.

The

National Adoption Center

, a Philadelphia nonprofit human services organization, named the following officers and members to its board:

Bruce D. Davis Jr.,

vice president, general counsel and secretary of Sunoco Logistics Partners, Philadelphia, is president.

Patricia Daly

, vice president and general counsel of Lincoln Financial Advisors, Philadelphia, is vice president.

William R. Levy

, executive vice president of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., Philadelphia, is was named vice president.

Allan R. Frank,

chief information officer in the division of technology for the City of Philadelphia, is strategy chairman.

Michael L. Rifkin,

first vice president of Smith Barney Inc., Philadelphia, is treasurer.

Kathy Murphy,

president of Gray Consulting, Philadelphia, is secretary.

Phillip S. Barnett

is senior vice president and chief financial officer of PECO, Philadelphia.

Rhoda McKinney-Jones

is media relations director for the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference Inc. and communications consultant to the American Baptist Churches, USA, Office of Black Church Ministries, Valley Forge.

Michael D. Soileau

is national director of partnership sales and strategic alliances for Comcast Corp., Philadelphia.

The

Madlyn and Leonard Abramson Center for Jewish Life

, a Philadelphia nonprofit provider of services to seniors, elected

Seth J. Lehr

chairman of its board. He is cofounder and partner at LLR Partners, Philadelphia.

William A. Stock was named to the board of the

American Immigration Lawyers Association

, a Washington, D.C., professional association. He is a partner at Klasko, Rulon, Stock and Seltzer, Philadelphia.

- Mike Zebe