On the Boards

The Entrepreneurs Forum of Greater Philadelphia, an organization that helps entrepreneurs find the resources needed to get into business, has elected Richard Ott treasurer and David Neff board member. Ott is a chief financial officer of GFO CFO Group L.L.C. Neff is the owner of Philadelphia-based advertising and P.R. company Neff Associates.

InfoLogix, Inc., a Hatboro provider of technology for business and clinical processes for health care and other sectors, has appointed Melvin L. Keating to its board. He will also serve as chairman of the audit committee. Keating was president and CEO of Alliance Semiconductor Corp.

Robert Bonner was elected to the MBA Roundtable board, a graduate education think tank, dedicated to curricular innovation. He is associate dean for graduate and executive programs at the Villanova School of Business.

PHH Corp., a Mount Laurel outsource provider of mortgage and vehicle fleet management services, has appointed Deborah M. Reif to its board. She most recently was CEO and president of the equipment services division of General Electric Co.

The Wistar Institute, a Philadelphia independent nonprofit biomedical research institute founded in 1892, has named Gail Walker Hearn and Milton S. Schneider to its board of trustees. Walker Hearn is a biology professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia and founder and director of the Bioko Biodiversity Protection Program. Schneider, an investor and residential and commercial real estate developer, is the founder and principal of The Glenville Group, Lafayette Hill.

World Class Greater Philadelphia, a program of the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia, has named Jane G. Pepper, Wendell E. Pritchett and Steven M. Altschuler cochairs. Pepper is retired president of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Pritchett is chancellor of Rutgers University, Camden. Altschuler is president and CEO of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Stuart W. Davidson, a partner at the Philadelphia union-side labor and employment law firm Willig, Williams & Davidson, has been elected chairman of the board of the American Friends of the Yitzhak Rabin Center.

Adelaine F. Williams has been elected president of the Independence Chapter of the Association of Legal Administrators, a professional association. She is chief operating officer of Kaplin Stewart, Blue Bell.

The Pennsylvania Prison Society, a nonprofit criminal justice reform organization created in 1787, has formed an advisory council. The new members include:

Alfred Blumstein is professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research at the H. John Heinz III College of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University.

Catherine C. Carr is executive director of Community Legal Services and a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.

JoAnne A. Epps is dean of the Beasley School of Law at Temple University and a former instructor in law in China, Japan and Rwanda and in a special program for Sudanese lawyers working for victims of the Darfur crisis.

Paul J. Fink is professor of psychiatry at the Temple University School of Medicine and former president of the American Psychiatric Association and the American College of Psychiatrists.

Jane Golden is executive director of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.

W. Wilson Goode Sr. is the former mayor of Philadelphia and director of the national Amachi Program.

Lori Grange is deputy director of the Pew Center on the States and a former reporter for the Los Angeles Times.

M. Kay Harris is a member of the graduate faculty in the Department of Criminal Justice, Temple University.

John Kramer is professor and associate head of the Department of Sociology and Crime, Law and Justice at Pennsylvania State University and former head of the Pennsylvania and U.S. Sentencing Commissions.

Marsha Levick is cofounder and deputy director of the Juvenile Law Center.

Leslie Anne Miller is cochair of the board of directors of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and former general counsel to Gov. Rendell.

Bill Moushey is director of the Innocence Institute of Western Pennsylvania and associate professor of journalism at Point Park University.

John Armand Rich is professor and chair, Health Management and Policy, at Drexel University School of Public Health, and medical director of Boston Public Health Commission.

David Rudovsky is founding partner, Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing & Feinberg, and senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

John Edgar Wideman is an author and professor of Africana Studies and English at Brown University.

The Construction Financial Management Association, a Montgomeryville trade organization, named the following officers and members to its board:

Mike Viens, director at CBIZ/Mayer Hoffman McCann, Plymouth Meeting, is president.

Vikki Grinnan, chief financial officer at HSC Builders & Construction Managers, Exton, is vice president.

Chris Zaucha, vice president at Innovative Glazing Systems, Lansdale, is treasurer.

Wendy Byerley, manager, credit and contracts at American Infrastructure, Worcester, is secretary.

Named to the board:

Shana McMahon is an associate at Jacoby & Donner, Philadelphia.

Joseph Artale is chief financial officer at C. Abbonizio Contractors Inc., Sewell.

Emily Gunther is principal at Larson Allen L.L.P., Philadelphia.

Joseph Uff is chief financial officer at Vanalt Electrical Construction, Yeadon.

John Goldner is chief financial officer at Herman Goldner Co., Philadelphia.

Thomas Knepley is sales and marketing coordinator at TECHBLDRS, Exton.

Jay Sedor is chief financial officer of Bulldog Construction Co. Inc., Coatesville.

Francis J. Curran is senior vice president at Marsh USA Inc., Philadelphia.

Journal Register Co., a Yardley media company, named the following to a new advisory board:

Jeff Jarvis is associate professor and director of the Interactive Journalism program and the new business models for news project at the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism.

Jay Rosen is a professor and former chair of the journalism program at New York University.

Betsy Morgan is the former CEO of the Huffington Post.

- Mike Zebe