The Boardroom

The Free Library of Philadelphia said Mayor Kenney has appointed Maria Arias, Doug Carney, and Anuj Gupta to its board of trustees. Arias is vice president of diversity and inclusion at Comcast Corp. Carney, a registered architect, is the senior vice president for facilities, real estate, energy, design and construction at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Gupta is general manager of Reading Terminal Market.

Daemion Counseling Center, a 45-year-old nonprofit mental-health agency in Berwyn, has named the following board members: Kenneth Chen, director of digital marketing at BTC, Wayne; Joseph Koebele, research analyst at West Capital Management, Philadelphia; Jean Hughes, senior producer-director at Vanguard Media Services, Malvern; and Emily Magee, supervisor of Flagship Services at the Vanguard Group, Malvern.

The following were elected officers: Melissa Hawes, president/founder of Miles Financial Management, Exton, president; H. Kathleen Childress, principal of HKC Consulting and H. Kathleen Childress Designs, Malvern, vice president; Andrea Delligatti, psychologist and executive coach in Malvern, secretary; and Phil Krombolz, president/owner of Krombolz-Sheets Inc., West Chester, treasurer.

Malvern Bancorp Inc., parent company of Malvern Federal Savings Bank, has appointed Norman Feinstein to its board. Feinstein is a principal and vice chairman of the Hampshire Cos.

Stockton University president Harvey Kesselman has been appointed by the American Council on Education to serve on its Commission on Internationalization and Global Engagement.

Lantern Theater Co., Philadelphia, has elected Gregory J. Kleiber board chairman. Kleiber, who previously served as the board's vice president, succeeds Eugene Bissell, who has served as chairman since 2014 and will continue to serve as a director. Kleiber is a partner at Fox Rothschild L.L.P. in Philadelphia.

The Philly Ad Club, a nonprofit trade organization, has named the following board members: Cassandra Bailey, president and CEO of Slice Communications; Kerry Mulvey, director of sales at WBEB-FM (101.1); Ted Pacitti, vice president and general manager of Comcast Spotlight Philadelphia; Ashley Patterson, chief revenue officer and publisher of Philadelphia Magazine; Steve Rosen, managing director of ab+c Creative Intelligence's Philadelphia office; and Shawneen Thompson, vice president and general manager of Radio-One Philadelphia.

Paul Josephson has been appointed New Jersey Committee cochair and a member of the board of directors of the Regional Plan Association, an urban research and advocacy organization. He will cochair the New Jersey Committee with former New Jersey Gov. James J. Florio. Josephson is a partner at Duane Morris L.L.P., Cherry Hill, and has served as chief counsel and chief of authorities for New Jersey's Office of the Governor.

Mark Ladley, public relations manager for Kimball Communications, Blue Bell, has been named to the Lansdale Borough Comprehensive Plan Task Force.

Dilworth Paxson's James Landgraf has been reappointed to a leadership role in the American Bar Association's Section of Litigation. He will be a cochair of the real estate litigation and condemnation committee for the 2016-17 year.

Nonprofit educational organization After-School All-Stars Philadelphia has named Stefanie Langer, founder of DaVinci Advisors, and Omar Woodard, executive director of the GreenLight Fund, to its board.

Dorothy Jaworski has been named secretary of the Financial Managers Society Philadelphia Chapter. She is treasurer and senior vice president at Penn Community Bank.

B.A. MacLean Jr. and William L. Stulginsky were named to the board of the Visiting Nurse Society, a nonprofit home health and hospice provider. MacLean is managing partner of Diversified Search. Stulginsky served as a partner of PWC (PricewaterhouseCoopers L.L.P.) until September 2009. VNS manages endowed funds that support, in perpetuity, the patient care of the Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Philadelphia and the education and development of its clinical staff.

The Irish American Business Chamber and Network has elected Martin Welch to its board. e is a retired executive of Aramark Corp., most recently serving as chief operating officer of emerging markets. 

 - Mike Zebe