Jeffrey Brown
Jeffrey Brown is the founder, President and CEO of Brown's Super Stores, Inc. He opened his first ShopRite in 1988, which has since developed into the 11-store supermarket business that he operates today throughout the Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey region. Each of the Company's stores is well recognized for its commitment to each local community where it does business. Mr. Brown serves as Officer and Director of Wakefern Food Corp., Director of Pennsylvania Food Merchants Association, Director of New Jersey Food Council and Officer, Board member of Urban League of Philadelphia and Director of the Philadelphia Youth Network, a non-profit organization dedicated to workforce development of Philadelphia's youth. He has received many accolades in the city of Philadelphia and South Jersey including continuing recognition from the NAACP, as well as Citations and awards from the Mayor's office and the Philadelphia City Council. Jeff is nationally recognized as a leader and innovator in serving low-income communitites.

Sandy Brown
Sandy Brown graduated with a B.S. from the University of Maryland in 1984. She currently works as the In-Store Branding and Media Relations Director for Brown's Super Stores. Before her work with Brown's, Ms. Brown spent eleven years in management for consumer good companies such as Unilever and Revlon. She joined the Brown's team in 1995, developing the Human Resources basics necessary for the expansion and growth of the company. In addition, she was responsible for Customer Satisfaction and Quality Assurance for the company. Her HR involvement led her to a position in Customer Satisfaction and Public Relations for Brown's, focusing on positive results with Wakefern's Customer Satisfaction Measurement program and improved operational standards at Brown's. Her current position with Brown's Super Stores entails developing store décor for all new and remodeled stores and branding of ‘Brown's Own' products, as well as, Public and Media relations for the company. Mrs. Brown is involved with many organizations including Susan Komen Foundation for Breast Cancer, Joshua Kahan Fund for Pediatric Leukemia, and Fragile X Syndrome. She currently serves as a Vice President for her synagogue in Cherry Hill and is an Advisory Board Member for Jewish Family Services of Southern New Jersey. Mrs. Brown lives in Southern New Jersey with her husband Jeff and their four sons.

Yael Lehmann
Yael Lehmann is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and now serves as the Executive Director of The Food Trust, a non-profit organization that promotes healthy eating and food availability in urban communities. Since 2001, Ms. Lehmann has worked with The Food Trust to lead the growth and development of the organization's programs. She has worked closely with the Nutrition Education program which reaches approximately 50,000 low-income children and has proven to prevent childhood obesity. Along with establishing more than 30 farmers' markets across southeastern Pennsylvania, Ms. Lehmann has played a large role in the development initiatives to encourage food retail in underprivileged communities.

Laura Shubilla
Laura Shubilla serves at the President of the Philadelphia Youth Network, PYN, with a Masters of Science in Social Policy, Planning, and Administration from Columbia University's School of Social Work. A non-profit, workforce intermediary organization, PYN was developed to stress academic importance and career success for 14-21 year-old Philadelphian youth. Ms. Shubilla has dedicated her time and diligence to programs like WorkReady Philadelphia, preparing young people to be effective in a work environment, and Project U-Turn, raising awareness and formulating strategies to confront the high rates of city high school drop-outs. Ms. Shubilla was recently chosen as one of Philadelphia Leadership's Top 101 "Connectors" based on her ability to convey important leadership qualities to the youth population.

Linda Rosanio
Linda Rosanio is the co-founder and CEO of The Star Group, an ad agency that has grown from a brainstorm at her kitchen table to one of the largest agencies in the region. The Star Group prides itself on creating business through an innovative, motivated team that brings life to professional ideas. Ms. Rosanio serves as the current chairman of the Philadelphia region of the AAAA Council (American Association of Advertising Agencies) and she sits on the board of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Red Cross. Among many other great achievements, she received the 2004 Paradigm Award from the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and the Jane Bisbee award from her respective American Red Cross chapter.

Shelley Levitan Adler
Shelley Levitan Adler served as an Elected Member of the Cherry Hill Township Council from 2004 to 2009. Ms. Adler is Of Counsel to the Cherry Hill Law Firm of Earp Cohn P.C. and holds an A.B from the University of Illinois and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She services the community as the co-chair of the Civil Rights Committee of the New Jersey Anti-Defamation League, a Commissioner of the New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission, and the wife of freshman U.S. Representative John Adler (D., N.J.). Among other important community roles, she has worked on the boards of the Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey and is past president of the Stockton School PTA. She has four sons.

Michele Golkow, Esq.
Michele Golkow received her B.A. from the University of Maryland and her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Ms. Golkow practices with Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP in Philadelphia in the Business and Finance Department, concentrating on Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation. Before joining the Business and Finance Department, she advised in the Public Finance Department where she took part in major municipal financial transactions. Ms. Golkow advises a wide variety of clients including many nonprofit organizations. Also a vital part of her community, Michele is the immediate past-president of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of Southern New Jersey and a current Board of Trustees member.

Samuel Kates
Samuel Kates graduated from Babson College in 1986 with a B.S in Finance and Entrepreneurial Studies. He has since worked for several national and regional retailers managing their market analysis, site selection, lease negotiation and entitlement processes. He has executed more than a thousand transactions in major regional malls, strip centers, office and industrial parks, and pad sites along with a multitude of individual land development deals. Mr. Kates' experience with real estate and retailers exposed him to a variety of business sectors, leading him to eventually forgo corporate real estate. He established a full service real estate firm designed to work with a select group of national, regional, and local companies to handle their real estate needs throughout the East Coast

Sharmain Matlock-Turner 
Sharmain Matlock-Turner is the President/CEO of the Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition (GPUAC), a 40-year-old organization whose mission is to unite government, business, neighborhoods and individual initiative to improve the quality of life in the region, build wealth in urban communities and solve emerging issues. Ms. Matlock-Turner chairs the boards of West Oak Lane Charter School and People's Emergency Center and is on numerous boards including the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and La Salle University. She served on the Mayor's Advisory Commission for Construction Industry Diversity and chaired its Workplace Committee. Her recent awards include Community College of Philadelphia's "Civic Investment Award" and Philadelphia Business Journal's "Minority Business Leader" Award. A co-host of the Financial Voices radio show, she also appears regularly on WPVI's Inside Edition. Prior to GPUAC, Ms. Matlock-Turner served as Associate Vice President for Legislative/Community Affairs for Mercy Health Systems and as Chief of Staff to the late State Senator Roxanne Jones.

Richard G. Phillips Jr 

Richard Phillips was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1992, he received a B.A. in History from Yale University. Mr. Philips received his Master's degree in International Relations from Cambridge University in 1993 and his law degree from Georgetown University in 1996. He has held numerous governmental positions including counsel at the United States Court of Appeals in the Department of Justice, Counsel to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Counsel to Senator Patrick J. Leahy, and has served as a Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund. Mr. Phillips currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Melmark Home for the Developmentally Disabled Children and serves as chairman of the Melmark Charitable Foundation. Mr. Phillips is Currently Chief Executive Officer of the Pilot Freight Services, an international freight company doing business in over 200 countries. At Pilot, Mr. Philips has led the company's successful opening of new Logistics and Automotive divisions and opened numerous new offices in the United States and abroad.

John Cowles

John Cowles is the President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of FXI, a leading producer of foam innovation for the Home, Healthcare, Electronics, Industrial, Personal Care and Transportation Markets. Before joining FXI, John Cowles was the President and CEO at Touchstone Wireless, a company recognized as the leading headset repair, remanufacturer and logistics provider in North America. Crowles is a 25-year business veteran who has held senior leadership positions at major companies - such as Kraft Foods, Campbell Soup Company, and George Weston Bakeries - and guided them to significantly improved fiscal success. Cowles has global experience with operating business in Asia, North America, Latin America, and South America. He has run businesses from $50 million to $3 billion. Cowles has built strong teams focused on strategic growth delivered through an efficient supply chain.

Cowles holds an engineering degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and an MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in Boston, MA.

Wayne Trotman

Wayne Trotman serves as market executive for Chase's middle market, Mid-Atlantic business, covering Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Baltimore, Maryland, Tysons Corner, Richmond, Virginia and the Carolinas. Prior to this, Wayne was market manager for Commercial Banking's Northeast Financial Institutions (FI) Group, overseeing the deliver of treasury, investment, credit, asset management and worldwide security services to banks, thrifts and credit unions in the region with assets under $25 billion. Prior to rejoining JPMorgan Chase & Co. in 2007, Wayne was a senior regional manager at Merrill Lynch & Co. in Business Financial Services where he worked on senior debt financing for public and private diversifies middle market companies. From 2001 to 2007 he ran the Diversified Corporate and Investment Banking Coverage Group for Fleet Boston Financial where he focused on large corporate and healthcare companies in the New Jersey and Pennsylvania markets. Wayne started his career at Chase Manhattan Bank in 1985 and has held progressively responsible positions throughout his career in both Europe and the United States.

He is a graduate of Bernard M. Baruch College, a graduate of Leadership New Jersey class of 2000 and past board member of The Regional Business Partnership in Newark, New Jersey. Wayne resides in New Jersey with his wife Victoria and four year old son Joshua.