The Advisory Board serves as the interface between Fox students and the financial services industry. It helps tailor course curricula to meet the needs of the industry and creates networking opportunities for students, faculty and industry professionals to promote an internship and employment pipeline. The Advisory Board will:

  • Provide feedback on curriculum to match up with the needs of the industry,
  • Create networking opportunities for students, alumni and faculty, and
  • Promote internship and employment opportunities.

The Advisory Board meets twice a year on Temple University-Main Campus. Board Meetings are an opportunity for members to collaborate with Fox faculty, university stakeholders and students.

    Steering Committee
    • Board Chair: Robert White, President & CEO, 1st Colonial Bank

    • Interim Managing Director: Dr. Philip English, Research Associate Professor

    • Director of Research: Dr. Samuel Rosen, Assistant Professor

    • Department Chair: Dr. Oleg Rytchkov, Professor 

    Board Members

    Board Chair

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      Robert White

          • President & CEO | 1st Colonial

    Board Members

    Profile type
    • Heidi Bahmueller

      Heidi Bahmueller

          • Senior Vice President & Senior Underwriter | PNC

    • Charlie Crawford

      Charlie Crawford

          • Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | Hyperion

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      Robert Kane

          • Retired | Key Bank

    • Alan Kaplan

      Alan Kaplan

          • Founder & CEO | Kaplan Partners

    • Kevin Kooman

      Kevin Kooman

          • Managing Director Financial Services Investment Banking | Raymond James and Associates Inc.

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      William Lang

          • Owner | WW Lang Consulting LLC

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      John Shain

          • President | AFS | retired

    • Dave Swoyer

      Dave Swoyer

          • Retired | Santander

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      Michael Vitale

          • Senior Vice President Development Program Manager | Centralized Credit Group | WSFS

    Advisory Board Partner Firms
    • 1st Colonial
    • AFS
    • Centralized Credit Group
    • Hyperion
    • Kaplan Partners
    • Key Bank
    • PNC
    • Raymond James and Associates Inc.
    • Santander
    • WSFS
    • WW Lang Consulting LLC

    Membership & Benefits

    Activities

    • Curriculum feedback to support continuous improvement in the financial services concentration
    • Provide teaching support for the Commercial Credit Risk Analysis class
    • Speaking opportunities in the classroom and other student-sponsored events
    • Internship and job placement fairs sponsored by the department
    • Generate ideas for raising scholarship funds to attract talented students to the concentration
    • Exchange of ideas for practitioner-oriented research including support of the annual conference

    Benefits of Becoming a Board Member

    • Shape and recruit talented students for future employment in banking
    • Direct practitioner-oriented research that assists with day-to-day decision-making
    • Strengthen our academic program to the benefit of the students, faculty and industry