On the Boards

The Philadelphia Police Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports the Philadelphia Police Department, named the following board members:

Paul K. Leary Jr., attorney and member of the litigation department at Cozen O'Connor, Philadelphia; Stephen Olitsky, chief executive officer and president of B&B Wealth Management L.L.C., Gwynedd Valley; Tamar Olitsky, chief executive officer and president of the Olitsky Family Foundation, Gwynedd Valley; Salvatore Patti, senior vice president-commercial banking group leader at PNC Financial Services Group, Philadelphia, and Thomas Riley, vice president for strategic planning at the Connelly Foundation, West Conshohocken.

CRF Health, Plymouth Meeting, named Steven W.J. Kent chairman of the board. He had been chief executive officer of ClinPhone and former president of Perceptive Informatics.

Peter M. Newman, an attorney at the personal-injury law firm Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock & Dodig L.L.P., Philadelphia, will serve on the board of governors of the Philadelphia Bar Association for a three-year term.

Spark Therapeutics, a Philadelphia company developing gene-based medicines for a wide range of debilitating diseases, named Elliott Sigal, former director, executive vice president and chief scientific officer of Bristol-Myers Squibb, to its board. While at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Sigal was credited with bringing more than 14 new medicines to market to treat diseases such as cancer, mental illness, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B, rheumatoid arthritis, and cardiovascular and metabolic disease.

Stradley Ronon counsel Josh Shapiro has been elected vice chairman of the Pennsylvania Convention Center board. Shapiro focuses his practice on general corporate work, real estate and regulatory compliance. He currently is chairman of the Montgomery County Commissioners.

TransCelerate BioPharma Inc., King of Prussia, a nonprofit organization that aims to find quicker, cheaper and more efficient ways of producing safe medicine, elected Annalisa Jenkins as chair of its board. She formerly was executive vice president and head of global research and development at Merck Serono (biopharma division of Merck KGaA, in Darmstadt, Germany).

Cristo Rey Philadelphia High School has elected David W. Neu to the board of trustees. Neu is president of AmerisourceBergen Drug Corp., a business unit of AmerisourceBergen, Valley Forge.

Susan G. Komen Philadelphia, a nonprofit health-advocacy group, elected Ronald J. Harper president. He is a partner at Harper & Paul.

The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia named the following board members:

Peg Fitzpatrick, president of PGM Inc., Lansdale; Richard G. Pestell, director, vice president, chair and professor of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, and Charles Peterson, vice president of Peterson Insurance Services Inc., Havertown.

Eric R. Elmore has been named to the board of the National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia. Elmore is marketing director for Drucker & Scaccetti.

Echo Therapeutics Inc., a Philadelphia medical-device company, elected Michael M. Goldberg to its board. He was a managing partner of Montaur Capital Partners from January 2007 to December 2013.

Nutrisystem Inc., the Fort Washington provider of weight-management products and services, named the following members to its Science Advisory Board:

Caroline Apovia, professor of medicine and pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine, director of the Nutrition and Weight Management Center and co-director of the Nutrition and Metabolic Support Services at Boston Medical Center; Andy Baldwin, senior medical officer on the USS Makin Island in San Diego; Gary Bennett, professor of psychology, global health, and medicine at Duke University; Lou Cooperhouse, president and CEO at Food Spectrum L.L.C.; Linda Delahanty, chief dietitian at the Massachusetts General Hospital Diabetes Clinic and director of nutrition and behavioral research at the MGH Diabetes Research Center, and Jay Satz, a senior scientific adviser to Nutrisystem.

- Mike Zebe