The Boardroom

Moore College of Art & Design,

Philadelphia, has named the following to its board of managers:

Kathleen Shaver,

an artist who has exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Woodmere Art Museum, and the James A. Michener Art Museum, is the ex-officio alumni council representative and board member;

Flor Jazmin Gutierrez,

archivist for the Cascarones Por La Vida fund-raiser in Philadelphia, is a young alumna on the board; and

Richard Harrington,

associate professor of illustration, is ex-officio Faculty Forum representative.

Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, has elected Richard A. Mitchell chairman of its board of trustees. Mitchell joined the board in 1998 and has served in a variety of leadership positions, including vice chair and chair of the Property Development Committee. He is general counsel of MainLine Investment Partners in Wynnewood.

Terri Lynne Lokoff Child Care Foundation, a King of Prussia nonprofit, has named Samuel Nemroff and Steven Rossman co-presidents of the board. Nemroff is president of Penn Wynne Homes Inc., Wynnewood; Rossman is a partner at Drucker & Scaccetti, Philadelphia. Marcy Bacine, a retired child-care director, has been named vice president. Shelley Greenbaum, a retired secretary, has been named secretary.

Veterans Community Network, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that provides resources for military veterans and their families in the Philadelphia region, has elected the following board members: Glen Miller, an Army Ranger in Vietnam, founder of Performance Essentials, and currently adjunct professor at Temple University's Fox School of Business; Ann Marie Donohue, associate professor of psychology at Montgomery County Community College; David Monahan, a senior instructor at Exelon Nuclear; Mary P. Miller, retired Pennsylvania State University Extension educator; Ella Roush, principal of Roush Associates; Frank Desimone, retired Norristown School District electrician and union president; and Mark S. Bill, principal of Bill Consulting Group.

Maxine Gowen has been appointed board vice chair of the Emerging Companies Section of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, which says it is the world's largest trade association representing the biotechnology industry. Gowen is president and CEO of Trevena, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based in King of Prussia. She also served as senior vice president for the Center of Excellence for External Drug Discovery at GlaxoSmithKline.Peirce College, Philadelphia, has named the following trustees: Thomas M. McLaughlin, senior vice president and director of technology management services at Wells Fargo & Co.; Toni Pergolin, president and CEO of Bancroft; Lawrence Scanlan, president of Scanlan & Associates LLC; and Brian G. Swift, vice president, chief pharmacy officer, of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and associate dean for professional affairs of Jefferson's School of Pharmacy. - Mike Zebe