The Team

Our team is comprised of professionals from a variety of fields, many of whom are first-generation college graduates. Our leaders are trained and versed in the struggles that our population faces. The Advisory Board and Steering Committee work closely with our student chapter leaders to learn from their experiences and gain insights that inform our programming.

Steering Committee

A key aspect of our vision involves empowering students to take leadership roles in guiding and driving our programming and operations. Therefore, our steering committee is composed of both professionals and college students.

Jenny Chan

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Partner, Advisory Services 

Ernst & Young

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Treasurer, 

Collective Success Network

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Ro King

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Angel Investor, Start-up Advisor

Chair, Dean's Global Advisory Council, University of Virginia
Darden School of Business; 

Trustee, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 

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Sudhir Kondisetty

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Principal, Philadelphia Risk Consulting Practice Leader and Office Managing Partner, RSM US LLP

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Kamina Richardson

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Assistant Program Director/Fox Pre-Law Advisor,

Temple University

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Ann Marie Solomon

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Vice President, Strategy & Insights, Aramark

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Secretary,

Collective Success Network​

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Min Suh

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Partner, Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

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Tom Tritton 

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Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania

Former President of Haverford College and the Chemical Heritage Foundation. 

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Vice Chair,

Collective Success Network​

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Adrienne Tymiak

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Former Executive Director and scientific leader,
Bristol-Myers Squibb

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Co-Executive Director, 

Collective Success Network

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Ex-Officio Advisors

Jeffrey Brown

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CEO & Founder, 

Brown's Super Stores

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Chairman & Founder,

Uplift Solutions

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David Denious

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Partner, 

Drinker, Biddle & Reath

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David Donald

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Founder, PeopleShare, Inc

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Bryant Greene

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Founder, Owner & Administrator, 

Always Best Care Senior Services 

of Philadelphia, Bucks, and Delaware Counties

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Sally Guzik

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Site Director, 
Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) Philadelphia

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Sheila Ireland

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Executive Director, City of Philadelphia's Office of Workforce Development 

Annie Madonia

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Chief Advancement Officer, 

Lenfest Institute for Journalism

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Sean Quinn

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President & Co-Founder, 

Bowstring Studios

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Kenneth Wong

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President, 

CIG Asia

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Former Commissioner on the U.S. President's Advisory Commission for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

Co-Executive Director:  Chenora D. Burkett, CPA

Chenora D. Burkett is an accomplished accounting and finance leader with more than 25 years of experience focused on leadership development and organizational restructuring.  

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Chenora is the owner of BrchBurk Consulting, a firm that specializes in supporting the financial, operational and leadership needs of small local companies and non-profit entities.  She has served in senior leadership and executive roles for a number of non-profit organizations in the public sector, including art and culture, government, fiscal management, behavioral health and charitable philanthropy.  The broad range of her expertise includes but is not limited to day-to-today financial team management, audit, organizational leadership, operations, contract negotiations and pension administration.

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A graduate of Temple University, with a Bachelor of Business Administration and Accounting, Chenora is an active certified public accountant, licensed in Pennsylvania.  She is the treasurer for Susan G. Komen Philadelphia and the African American Chamber of Commerce Foundation and serves as board member of POWER, the Power of Professional Women.  In addition to her board responsibilities, she is a member of the Philadelphia Housing Authority Audit Committee. A mother of three adult children, Chenora resides in Whitemarsh Township with her tall husband and her tiny dog.

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Co-Executive Director:  Adrienne Tymiak, PhD 

Adrienne Tymiak joined Collective Success Network in 2018 following a “Breaking into Pharma” event where she shared her career arc as a first-gen professional with college students. Adrienne entered the pharmaceutical industry as a research chemist following her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry. At Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), she rose to executive leader for large, multi-disciplinary and

cross-site teams in R&D. As a BMS leader for over 20 years, Adrienne built innovative organizations with a diverse talent pipeline, hiring and championing the advancement of women and minorities. Firmly committed to collaboration and cooperative learning, Adrienne also served as a Board member for precompetitive industry consortia, leader of science education programs and volunteer for community outreach initiatives. Since retiring from industry, Adrienne serves as an advisor and mentor-in-residence for the Rutgers University TechAdvance and HealthAdvance teams in addition to working as a volunteer for youth serving nonprofit organizations.

Director of Programs, Partnerships, and Strategy:  Alice Ginsberg, PhD

Alice Ginsberg, Ph.D. comes to CSN with over twenty years of experience working to support first generation, low-income students and to remove barriers to educational equity for all students. In addition to her leadership positions at educational organizations such as the Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity, The Center for Minority Serving Institutions, and the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, Alice has taught in the urban teacher education programs at both the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University.  She is the author of six books on education equity and diversity, including Gender in Urban Education and Embracing Risk in Urban Education, and continues to do original research on issues of educational diversity, opportunity and inclusion. 

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