Samuel Allen

• Sam is Friends Fiduciary’s Treasurer and a member of the Finance Committee.
• He has spent most of his career as president of the company he started in Philadelphia in 1975, Universal Motor Distributors, which provides distribution and services for electro-mechanical rotating equipment.
• Sam attends Mount Laurel Meeting as a member of Moorestown Meeting (NJ). His Quaker service has included key leadership positions on the school committees for Westtown School and Moorestown Friends School. He also served as chairman of the board of trustees of Cooper University Hospital, a Camden, NJ, teaching hospital originally founded and built by Quaker physician Richard M. Cooper and his family in 1887.
• Attended Moorestown Friends School; Graduate of Westtown School; B.A. University of Delaware.

Sylvia Bronner

• Sylvia is a member of the Human Resources Committee and the Marketing Task Force.
• She is a member of Haverford Meeting (PA) and previously served for 12 years on PYM’s coordinating committee for testimonies and concerns and 24 years on the board of trustees for Westtown School. Sylvia currently serves on the board of directors for Philabundance, the greater Philadelphia region’s largest hunger relief agency.
• In a diverse banking career that spans more than twenty-five years, Sylvia has held positions in systems and organizational integration, product management, marketing and advertising, and corporate affairs. Currently she is Senior Vice President of Public Affairs for Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania with primary responsibility for media relations. She also oversees Citizens Bank’s 25-year partnership with the Philadelphia Phillies.
• B.A. Earlham College.

John M. Coleman

• John is clerk of the Governance Committee and a member of the Human Resources Committee and the Marketing Task Force.
• He is chief operating officer of NCI Consulting, a management consulting firm. As senior vice president – Law and Public Affairs of Campbell Soup Company and then for the Gillette Company, he led nationwide efforts to elevate standards of corporate governance and accountability. He teaches a graduate seminar in corporate governance at Rutgers University.
• John is a member of Moorestown Meeting (NJ). He has served on the boards of many public and private companies and nonprofit organizations, including Financial Oversight of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and the school committees for Westfield and Moorestown Friends Schools.
• B.A. Haverford College; J.D. University of Chicago; additional graduate study, Harvard University.

Bruce E. Hunt

• Bruce is clerk of the Charitable Services Committee and convenor of the New Products Task Force.
• He founded and serves as President of Rose Valley Asset Management, an independent investment advisory firm, following many years of experience at other investment advisory firms including The Vanguard Group. He is active in professional organizations including the Philadelphia Estate Planning Council and the Financial Planning Association.
• A member of Swarthmore Meeting (PA), Bruce serves as an advisory trustee and member of the planned giving and investment committees for Media-Providence Friends School. He is a member of the board of directors of Kendal Outreach, LLC; a member of the finance committee for Swarthmore Presbyterian Church; and serves as a corporator and member of the investment committee for the Garrett-Williamson Foundation.
• B.A. Earlham College; M.B.A. Widener University.

Arthur M. Larrabee

• Arthur serves on the Charitable Services Committee
• He is the General Secretary of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Previously Arthur was a practicing attorney and founded the law firm now known as Larrabee, Cunningham and McGowan. He is often invited to make presentations on clerking skills and on Quaker process for Quaker meetings and committees across the country.
• A member of Central Philadelphia Meeting (PA), Arthur has served as clerk of that meeting as well as of the board of trustees of Westtown School. Before becoming General Secretary, he had served in many leadership positions at PYM, including clerk of the Yearly Meeting.
• B.A. Yale University; J.D. University of Pennsylvania.

Louis R. Matlack

• Lou is currently a member of the Audit Committee and served many years as both a member and clerk of the FFC Operations Committee.
• Lou spent 6 years as CEO of a publicly held paint manufacturer and 17 years with Scott Paper as a director of research and development and also as a plant manager. In addition, he has experience with venture capital as a Registered Representative under the rules of the National Association of Securities Dealers. Lou ended his professional career as the head of Matlack Mediation, through which he served as a professional mediator in land use and multi-party, complex cases, and as a public policy facilitator for the PA Turnpike Commission, among others.
• A member of Moorestown Meeting (NJ), Lou has served for over 50 years as a trustee for Quaker schools, including Haverford College. He also served on the NJ Hazardous Waste Facilities Sitting Commission and the board of Yardville National Bank. His current activities include: co-trustee, D’Olier Foundation; member of Institutional Review Board, Coriell Institute; director, Albion Engineering.
• B.S. Haverford College; Ph.D. Princeton University.

H. David Raper

• David serves as clerk of the Audit Committee and as a member of the Investment Committee.
• A financial economist and a CPA, David has extensive experience in investment management, banking and economic planning with the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and Rushmore Trust and Savings of Bethesda, MD. He has consulted on acquisitions, mutual-to-stock conversions, evaluations of the thrift industry and other aspects of banking. David also wrote a financial guide to home equity conversion (reverse mortgages, etc.) published by the AARP.
• David is a member of New Garden Meeting (NC) and has been the chair of the meeting’s stewardship and investment committees.
• B.A, Wake Forest University; M.S., University of Tennessee, Knoxville; School of Mortgage Banking, Stanford, Notre Dame and Northwestern Universities; Post-graduate study in Accounting, George Washington University.

Daryl Renschler

• Daryl is a member of the Finance Committee and the Marketing Task Force.
• Now retired, his professional experience was focused on business management and research. This includes his tenure as president of Simco Company in Hatfield, PA, and CEO and President of SL Corp in Marlton, NJ.
• Daryl is a member of Solebury Meeting (PA) and has served on the boards of directors of Earlham College, George School, Buckingham Friends School (clerk), and on various corporate boards as well.
• B.A. Earlham College; Ph.D Pennsylvania State University.

William Schmidt

• Bill is a member of the Investment and Governance Committees and the New Products Task Force.
• Now with RBC Wealth Management, he has been in the investment brokerage business for 32 years, serving both individuals and institutional clients.
• Bill is a member of Haddonfield Meeting (NJ), where he has served as clerk of the school committee. His volunteer work includes service on the boards of Friends School Mullica Hill, The Estaugh (Medford Leas), and New Castle (Delaware) Historical Society.
• B.A. Swarthmore College.

Louise Williams Senopoulos

• Louise is the Chair of our Board of Directors. Since joining the board she has served on all committees and clerked the Governance Committee.
• Louise’s professional background is in portfolio management, most recently with CoreStates (now Wachovia) Trust and Investment Group.
• Louise is a member of Haddonfield Meeting (NJ). She is clerk of the board of Haddonfield Friends School, a member of the AFSC investment committee, and previously served on the board and finance committee of Cadbury Continuing Care Retirement Community.
• B.A., Trinity College; M.B.A., Finance, Drexel University.

John Slater

• John serves on the Investment Committee.
• Now a private investor, his career in investments and consulting encompassed investment banking firm White, Weld & Co. (acquired by Merrill Lynch), management consultant McKinsey & Co. and TeleSession Corporation, all in New York.
• John is a member of Morningside Meeting (NY). He is a trustee for New York Quarterly Meeting and clerk of its finance sub-committee. John also serves as a trustee of New York Yearly Meeting and as a member of the investment committee for Friends Seminary. He is a member of the Kendal on Hudson marketing/public relations committee and philanthropy committee.
• B.A. University of Pennsylvania; M.S. Columbia University; Additional graduate study, New York University.

Francis R. Strawbridge

• Frank is clerk of the Human Resources Committee.
• He spent his professional career in retailing, beginning in the executive training program at Bloomingdales. Frank then came back to Philadelphia in 1961 when he joined Strawbridge & Clothier. He held various merchandising positions and worked as the store manager of two suburban stores, before advancing to senior management. Frank served as chairman of the board and co-chairman of the executive committee until Strawbridge’s was purchased by the May Department Stores Company in 1996.
• Frank is a member of Merion Meeting (PA), where he serves as clerk of trustees. He is also a member of the Friends Insurance Group executive committee. Frank is president of Ralston Center, a non-profit organization supporting research, education and services in the care of the elderly since 1817.
• B.A. Princeton University.

Robert M. Taylor

• Bob serves on the Audit and Charitable Services Committees and was board chair from 2008-2010.
• Bob spent his professional career in the tin can and light metal stamping manufacturing business with Ellisco, Inc. (later US Can Company), with responsibilities in manufacturing and then in the areas of company/product line acquisitions, manufacturing consolidations, bankruptcy purchases and product line divestitures. Since leaving the company, Bob has continued to provide consulting services, primarily focused on company or product line purchases and corporate planning.
• A member of Abington Meeting (PA), he was a founding director of The Kendal Corporation, and served on at least one of the corporation’s boards for 25 years. He serves on the Arch Street Property and Use Committee and is currently president of John Barnes Trustees, Inc. of Abington Meeting.
• Graduate of Germantown Friends School; B.A., Earlham College; MBA, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business.

Norval Thompson

• Norval serves on the Finance Committee and has served on the Investment Committee.
• He has over 30 years experience in the investment industry, including positions with Merrill Lynch and A.G. Edwards.
• He has served the last 17 years as President and CEO of N.E. Thompson & Company, an investment management firm, based in St. Michaels, Maryland.
• Norval is a member of Third Haven Meeting (MD), where he serves on the overseers committee.
• B.S. University of Buffalo; Donald T. Reagan School of Advanced Financial Management, Merrill Lynch.

Charles W. Ufford, Jr.

• Charlie serves on the Charitable Services Committee and formerly clerked the Planned Giving Committee
• Now retired, he was an attorney with the New York City law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, concentrating in the law of Trusts and Estates. Charlie is a Fellow, American College of Trusts & Estates Counsel, and a former Academician, International Academy of Trusts & Estates Law. He is a former Chair of the Trusts & Estates Law Section of the New York State Bar Association (1984).
• Charlie is a member of Princeton Meeting (NJ). He has served as clerk of the meeting and as a member of overseers and trustees. He also serves as the planned giving adviser to Friends Committee on National Legislation.
• B.A. Harvard University; Harvard Scholar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, England; L.L.B. Harvard Law School.

Thomas P. Williams

• Tom is the Vice-Chair of the Board. He is clerk of the Finance Committee and serves on the Charitable Services and Governance Committees and the Marketing Task Force.
• He is recently retired as president and CEO of Octavia Hill Association, Inc. – the oldest affordable housing entity in Pennsylvania. He continues to serve as its treasurer.
• Tom is a member of Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (PA). He is a past treasurer for the meeting. He serves on the board and as treasurer of Community Ventures, a non-profit community development organization that owns over 150 new housing units in North Philadelphia. He currently serves as clerk of the board of the Farm & Wilderness Foundation (a Friends organization).
• B.A. Haverford College; J.D. Villanova School of Law.

Richard B. Willis, Jr.

• Dick is a member of the Human Resources and Charitable Services Committees.
• An insurance executive, Dick started at INA and then had a 40-year career at Johnson, Kendall & Johnson, an insurance brokerage and risk-management firm in Langhorne, PA, the last ten years serving as president and CEO. Under his leadership the firm became the leading insurer of continuing care retirement communities in America.
• He is a member of Gwynedd Meeting (PA) and has served as trustee at both Newtown Friends School and George School and currently serves as a director at retirement communities Cadbury and Foulkeways at Gwynedd.
• Graduate of Germantown Friends School; B.A. Ohio Wesleyan University.

Roger F. Wood

• Roger is Friends Fiduciary’s Secretary and serves on the Governance and Charitable Services Committees and as FFC’s representative on the Anna T. Jeanes Foundation Board.
• He is a partner with Dilworth Paxson LLP, where he is the head of the firm’s business department, handling a wide variety of corporate, banking and commercial matters.
• A member of Middletown MM (Bucks County, PA), Roger serves on the General Services Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. He also serves on the board of the Mary Louis Curtis Branch of the Settlement Music School
• B.A. Swarthmore College; Merton College, Oxford University; J.D. Harvard Law School.