Penn State

Leadership & Staff

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Zack Moore Vice President for Government and Community Relations, Penn State University

• Vice President for Government and Community Relations, Penn State University

Neeli Bendapudi President, The Pennsylvania State University

• President

Abraham Harpster Co-owner of Spruch Creek-based Evergreen Farms Inc

• Trustee ('13→?)

Allan Sonsteby Director of Intelligence Community Programs; Associate Director Applied Research Laboratory, Penn State

• Director of Intelligence Community Programs; Associate Director Applied Research Laboratory

Christopher Kelly Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton

• Board of Industry Advisors, College of Engineering

Nina V Fedoroff Distinguished Professor, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST); Evan Pugh Professor, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Penn State

• Evan Pugh Professor

Michael A Arthur Co-director, MCOR

• Professor of Geosciences

Terry Engelder Professor of Geosciences, Penn State

• Professor of Geosciences

William F Ryan Adjunct Research Assistant in Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University

• Adjunct Research Assistant in Meteorology

Linda Wray Professor of Behavioral Health, Pennsylvania State University

• Professor of Behavioral Health ('02→?)

Board Members

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Alvin H Clemens CEO of The Provident American, a health insurance company

• Emeritus Trustee (May '95→?)

Laurie Stanell Dentist

• Board Member

 Robert Capretto Oak Hill Holdings, LLC

• Trustee

Russell Redding Secretary, Pa. Dep't of Agriculture

• Trustee Ex Officio 

Linda B Strumpf Retired investment officer

• Trustee

James S Broadhurst Chairman of Eat’n Park Hospitality Group Inc.

• Trustee

Carl T Shaffer President of the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau

• Trustee

Keith E Masser Chairman and CEO of Sterman Masser Inc.,

• Trustee

Betsy E Huber Past Master of the Pennsylvania State Grange

• Trustee

Barron L Hetherington Owner and operator of B&R Farms

• Trustee

Donors

Terry Pegula Husband of Kim Pegula; Owner of Buffalo Sabres, Bills, and Bandits

• Donation · 88,000,000 USD ('10)

General Electric Company American multinational conglomerate; announced plans to split into publicly traded businesses - healthcare, aviation and energy

• Donation · 10,000,000 USD ('14)

ExxonMobil Foundation ExxonMobil's charity giving foundation

• Donation · 197,406 USD ('11)

Ginkgo Bioworks

• Donation/Grant

Elizabeth Glatfelter Moul

• J. W. Gitt Papers , 1929-1977

Donations

Brookings Institute Major Washington think tank

• Donation · 100,000 USD ('09)

Holdings

PATHS® Training LLC

• Owner

Marcellus Shale Education & Training Center Collaboration between Pennsylvania College of Technology and Penn State Extension to provide a wide variety of resources to the community and the oil-and-gas industry.

• Co-owner

Child Organizations

The Smeal College of Business of the Pennsylvania State University

• Child Org

Pennsylvania College of Technology Penn State affiliate

• Child Org

Penn State Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research part of the Penn State Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI)

• Child Org

Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine

• Child Org

Dickinson School of Law Law school at Penn State University; merged with PSU in 2000

• Child Org

Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment

• Child Org

Memberships

CCUS/Hydrogen Stakeholder Group Group started by Team PA to work on deploying false solutions

• Member

Personalized Learning Consortium

• Member

Services & Transactions

Marcellus Shale Coalition fracking industry group

• report funder ('09→'11)

Timothy Considine Economist at School of Energy Resources

• report author ('09→'11)

PNC Bank, N.A. Commercial bank that offers personal and business banking services

• student ID debit cards

Students

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Frank P Marzano Managing Principal | GM Advisory Group Wealth Management - sold to Wealthspire Advisors in 2023

• Bachelor's Degree (?→'94)

Mitchell Cohen Vice-Chairman (retired), PricewaterhouseCoopers

• Bachelor's Degree, Accounting (?→'81)

Peter J Cocoziello Founder and CEO of Advance Realty

• Bachelor's Degree, Finance

Alvin H Clemens CEO of The Provident American, a health insurance company

• Bachelor's Degree (?→'59)

Anthony Buzzelli Vice Chairman and National Managing Partner (retired), U.S. Regions, Deloitte & Touche USA, LLP

• Bachelor's Degree, Accounting (?→'71)

Edward Anchel Eminent Capital Partners

• BS, Business Administration (?→'60)

Jim Bognet Founded JRB Strategies, a political and business consulting firm

• Bachelor's Degree

Gary Brandeis Founder/CEO of Scholar Hotel Group

• Bachelor's Degree (?→'88)

Lydia Kives Attorney, ACLU; former staff attorney at The Bail Project

• BA (?→'10)

Linda Yaccarino CEO, Twitter; former President Network Ad Sales, NBCUniversal

• Bachelor's Degree

Miscellaneous Relationships

Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) North Carolina State University

• Project Lead