PennPAC is led by an expert team of professionals, who serve on our Board of Directors and Advisory Board.
Our professional staff work with our volunteer-run management team.
The PennPAC Core are a group of volunteer leaders that support organizational operations and programs.
Board of Directors
Founder, Board & Advisory Board Chair
Jackie has over 20 years of strategic planning and new program development experience in the nonprofit and healthcare fields. In addition to running PennPAC, she serves on the Trustees Council of Penn Women, Immediate Past Chair of the Board of Overseers of Penn Hillel, Community Service Chair for her Penn class, and as Chair of Social Impact for PennNYC. Jackie also holds an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business.
Anne Turner, WG ’94
Secretary
Anne is a strategic management consultant and nonprofit manager with over 25 years of public and private sector experience, including stints at American Express and Price Waterhouse’s Strategic Consulting Group. Anne is a founding member of PennPAC and oversaw all client recruitment and consulting services for PennPAC’s first 8 years. She currently chairs the Board’s Governance Committee. Anne is the Principal of Anne Turner Consulting, a capacity building consultancy that serves nonprofits.
CJ Bilangino, WG ’15
Treasurer
Kelsey Brongo, EAS ’14
Kelsey is a MBA Candidate at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Previously, she was a Senior Strategist at Indeed with strengths in strategy and data analysis. She has served as a Consultant, Deputy Team Leader, Team Leader, as well as Liaison for various PennPAC projects.
Elaine Harris, WG ’84
Elaine, after spending over 20 years in investment management as an equity portfolio manager and analyst, has focused her attention on charitable causes, both local and global. Most recently, she spent 7 years as Board President for a Fairfield County nonprofit organization dedicated to providing support and services to children in the custody of the state. Elaine has also been involved in multiple roles with PennPAC as Deputy Team Leader, Consultant, ImPACt volunteer and currently sits on the DEIA and Nonprofit Selection committees.
Arun Iyer, C ‘98, G ‘02
Arun has over a decade in the financial services industry and over 20 years as a national security professional. In addition to PennPAC, he serves on the Vestry of Old Donation Episcopal Church, as well as its People’s Warden, and on the boards of Outthinker and Sound-Off, Inc. Arun also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center of Strategy and Security and leads its project on Hybrid Warfare. He is also a volunteer leader with Team Rubicon, a veteran-led disaster response organization.
Ajay Joshi, GEX ‘11
Ajay is a management consultant providing expertise to mid-market clients in technology, healthcare, and manufacturing verticals. He brings 20+ years in senior commercial and operations leadership roles at FTSE100 and Fortune 50 firms. Ajay joined as a volunteer in 2019 and has since then led efforts to restart and grow PennPAC’s Philadelphia chapter to a thriving organization today, and has served in various roles including team leader, client liaison, volunteer engagement and client recruiting.
Lydia Kris, WG ’97
Lydia is a seasoned marketer and manager with over 25 years of experience in business. She began her career as a management consultant before moving to consumer products brand management and then small business ownership. She first became involved with PennPAC in 2019 and has since acted as Deputy Team Leader, Team Leader, and Liaison on various projects. She now serves as the Co-Chair of the PennPAC Development Committee.
Craig Mills, G ’07
Shraddha Munver, WG ’00
Shraddha is a management consultant with nearly 20 years of experience in project management, marketing, and strategy development. She has worked at McKinsey, A.T. Kearny, and American Express, and is currently an independent professional servicing clients across industries spanning health care, financial services, technology, and nonprofits. Shraddha has volunteered as a team leader and liaison for numerous PennPAC clients and has been a member of PennPAC’s Development Committee. She also volunteers for the Girl Scouts and Share and Care Foundation.
Kevin Park, W ’17
Paula-Kaye Richards, W ’06
Paula-Kaye is an experienced marketing professional with 15 years of experience in brand strategy, product development/marketing and digital marketing. She is currently the Head of Marketing and Communications for Space Capital, an early-stage space tech venture capital fund & investment platform. She has worked with PennPAC since 2013 in various ways from Consultant to Team Leader to current co-chair of the Nonprofit Selection Team.
Howard Seibel, WG ’85
Harriet Wachs Shaiman, C ’84, GED ’84, WG ’89
Harriet has worked as a Health Care Consultant, focusing on marketing and strategy in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. She also has extensive nonprofit lay-leadership experience. In her involvement with PennPAC, Harriet has worked as a Team Leader, Volunteer Consultant, and Liaison on various projects, and served on the Nonprofit Relations Team and participated in ImPACt events.
Vighnesh Subramanyan, WG ’17
Advisory Board
Susan Pechman, C ’79
Advisory Board Vice Chair
Former CMO, The NPD Group (2001-2022)
Bleema Bershad, W ’95
Director of Marketing, Apparo – Technology Solutions for Nonprofits
David Bradley, WG ’82
Head of Worldwide Automotive Equity Research, JP Morgan (Retired)
Crystal Caligiuri, W ’99
Chief Customer Officer, ShopKeep
Dale Kramer Cohen, W ’76, PAR ’14
President of DKC Resources & Managing Director of Sequel, Private Equity Solutions
Atish Davda, EAS, W ’08
Marcia Fox, PhD, G ’65
CEO & Founder, Fox Management Consulting
Meredith Galto, C ’99
PennPAC Philadelphia Leadership Team
Ellen Haude, W ’92
PennPAC Bay Area Director
Vivien Hoexter, WG ’86
Chief Development Officer, T’Shuvah Center
Sarah Jiang, EAS, W ’08
Managing Director, Blackstone Credit
Lauren Lorberbaum, C ’08
Management Consultant
Scott Millstein, C ’92
Chief Administrative Officer, Roosevelt Institute
Marc Packer, W ’81
Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (Retired)
Tony Romeo, WG ’73
Principal, Strategic Dynamics
Chapter Leadership
Ellen has had a 20 year career in Investment Finance, working in NY and London before moving to San Francisco 22 years ago. Her last private sector role was as SEVP, Director of Corporate Investments at Wells Fargo, where she managed a securities portfolio of over $250 Billion. After leaving finance, Ellen began doing pro-bono non-profit work with a focus on youth development and career coaching. She is on the board of Year Up Bay Area where she is also an Academic Coach, Mentor and Strategic Advisor. In addition, Ellen provides career coaching to veterans and their spouses through American Corporate Partners, and she was a Court Appointed Special Advocate for foster youth (CASA) for four years. She has worked with Girls Inc., and tutored within SFUSD through The San Francisco Education Fund.
Staff
Executive Director
Karen Schub Epstein spent 12 years in the private sector, starting her career in public accounting at Ernst and Young. She then joined Interpublic where she focused on mergers and acquisitions, investor relations, financial analysis, human resources, systems implementations, business development and strategy.
In 2005, Karen transitioned to the nonprofit world. She spent the next 10 years at the Growth Philanthropy Network, an organization focused on building a capital marketplace for high performing organizations that serve at-risk populations. Her work there focused on evaluation, program design, strategy and operations. Since 2015, she has been consulting with a broad range of clients and was the Interim Executive Director at Change for Kids in 2018. Currently, she serves on the Boards of Change for Kids and Youth Action YouthBuild.
Karen graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with degrees in accounting and psychology, and graduated from the Executive MBA program at Columbia University with honors.
Deputy Director
David has more than 15 years of nonprofit leadership experience. He founded and scaled Pitch In For Baseball and Softball (PIFBS) where he drove the organization’s strategic planning, fundraising, and Board development. Prior to joining the nonprofit sector, David worked in consumer packaged goods marketing with Procter and Gamble and H.J. Heinz.
He currently works as a nonprofit consultant and is an adjunct professor for the Nonprofit Leadership Development Program at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice.
David studied undergraduate business and graduated Magma Cum Laude from Georgetown University. He furthered his education studying International Marketing at Brasenose College in Oxford and non-profit fundraising at the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated with Honors with an MBA from The Wharton School.
Director of Operations
Cynthia has more than a decade of experience working in New York City’s nonprofit sector. Most recently she worked at Candid (previously Foundation Center), and before that was the Director of Administrative Services at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center.
Cynthia is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer who served in Guatemala from 2007-2009. She has a Master’s of Public Administration (MPA) from Binghamton University.
Core
Nonprofit Selection Team
Paula-Kaye Richards, W ’06, Co-Chair
Terry Pranses, W ’72, Co-Chair
Karen Finkel, EAS ’79
Harriet Shaiman, C ’84, GED ’84, WG ’89
Rachael Zinser, C ’99, Chair, Philadelphia
Volunteer Recruitment Team
Sabre Kaszynski, C ’96, Co-Chair
Dara Heimowitz, C ’12, Co-Chair
Technology
Kevin Park, W ’17, Technology Chair
Communication
Nora Lueth, Nu’16, GNu’18, Social Media Manager
DEIA
Vighnesh Subramanyan, WG ‘17, Chair
ImPACt Events
Russell Langsam, C’88, Chair
Coaching
Susan Pechman, C ’79, Chair
Development
Lydia Kris, WG ’97, Co-Chair
Evaluation
Elaine Harris, WG ’84, Chair