Leadership
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Bucks County Leadership: Chris Powell, SVP of Global Field & Partner Marketing at Qlik
Chris Powell, the Senior Vice President of Global Field & Partner Marketing at Qlik — a King of Prussia company delivering end-to-end, real-time data integration and analytics cloud solutions to close the gaps between data, insights and action — spoke with BUCKSCO Today about growing up in King of Prussia, which looks much different today…
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Bucks County Leadership: David Freeman, CEO of QNB Bank in Quakertown
David Freeman, the CEO of QNB Bank, spoke with BUCKSCO Today about growing up in Columbus, Ohio; getting married right out of high school and then completing his undergraduate work as a part-time student and full-time worker; and how he entered banking in 1975. Freeman also discussed what made him fall in love with the…
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Bucks County Leadership Profile: David Galluch, Candidate, U.S. House of Representatives in Pennsylvania’s 5th Congressional District
David Galluch, a Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Pennsylvania’s 5th Congressional District, spoke with BUCKSCO Today about losing his father before he was born; growing up in suburban Buffalo, and playing multiple sports in high school and the impact his football coach had on him. Galluch also discussed his family’s military…
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Malvern Man Logs 150th Encounter with Law Enforcement, But He’s by No Means a Scofflaw
Malvern resident Alex Mann, 21, recently made his 150th stop at a law enforcement agency. He hasn’t continually been brought in on charges. He goes willingly, spreading awareness and educating first responders on autism, writes Jared Weaver for WeAreCentralPa.com. Mann, who lives with autism, has made it his mission to visit as many agencies as…
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Bucks County Leadership: Mary Ann Messmer, SVP, Head of Private Banking at Meridian Bank
Mary Ann Messmer, SVP, Head of Private Banking at Meridian Bank, spoke with BUCKSCO.Today about growing up in Blue Bell as the daughter of a World War II veteran; playing multiple sports, which enabled her to spend quality time with her father; and, despite the initial objection of her parents, attending La Salle University, where…
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Bucks County Leadership: Bob McGowan, Chief Operating Officer at Peddler’s Village
Bob McGowan, the COO of Peddler’s Village, the Delaware Valley’s top tourist destination in 2020, spoke with BUCKSCO Today about growing up in Northeast Philadelphia as one of 11 people (his parents and eight siblings) living in a three-bedroom Olney row house; how his family moved to Holland when his father started his own company;…
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Bucks County Leadership: U.S. Congresswoman Madeleine Dean
U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean who represents Pennsylvania’s 4th congressional district, a district that includes almost all of Montgomery County and a small sliver of Berks County, spoke with BUCKSCO Today about growing up in Glenside as the youngest of her parents’ seven children; graduating near the top of her class at Abington High School; commuting…
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Teenage Hero in Yardley Saves Two Boys from Dangerous Fall Through Lake Afton Ice
A Sunday afternoon outdoor hockey game between two teenagers turned unexpectedly into a heroic moment. Dawn Timmeney, FOX 29 Philadelphia, reported the story of some quick thinking that prevented a tragedy on Lake Afton in Yardley. Cory Hemberger, a Neshaminy High School sophomore, was playing pond hockey with friend Shawn Miller when he got a…
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Bucks County Leadership: U.S. Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon
U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon — who represents Pennsylvania’s 5th congressional district, a district that includes much of Delaware Couty, a small section of both Chester and Montgomery County as well as a section of South Philadelphia that includes the sports stadiums and the Navy Yard — spoke with BUCKSCO Today about growing up in…
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Trauma Surgeon, a Broomall Native, Works to End Gun Violence in Philadelphia
A tweet of concern about the gun violence in Philadelphia from a trauma surgeon has resonated in the community, writes Susan Snyder for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The tweet came from Broomall native Amy Goldberg, a trauma surgeon at Temple University Hospital who has treated thousands of gunshot victims. In the early hours of New Year’s…
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Bucks County Leadership: Halyna Keller, Vice President, Finance at UKRFCU
Halyna Keller, the Vice President of Finance at UKRFCU (Ukrainian Selfreliance Federal Credit Union), spoke with BUCKSCO Today about growing up in the “Ukrainian Ghetto” of Philadelphia; losing her father when she was just five years old; having falsified working papers that enabled her to work when she was 14, and the lessons she learned…
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20 Business Lessons from 20 Years to Apply Today!
By Gina Rubel It’s hard to believe that it has been twenty years since I founded Furia Rubel Communications. That may seem like a long time, but it feels like it all began yesterday. While there have been hundreds, if not thousands of lessons learned along the way, I decided to focus on 20 business lessons…
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Bucks County Leadership: Felicia Ganther, President, Bucks County Community College
Felicia Ganther, the President of Bucks County Community College, spoke with BUCKSCO Today about being born in Kansas and growing up in southern California; being the first youth appointed to the Board of the American Red Cross in Pasadena and sitting on the city’s first Youth Council; and her first job selling concessions for a…
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Bucks County Leadership: Jeane M. Vidoni, President & CEO of Penn Community Bank
Jeane Vidoni, the CEO of Penn Community Bank, spoke with BUCKSCO Today about being born in Cleveland and growing up in Allentown; being inspired by the compassion and tolerance her father displayed as her mother suffered from an untreated mental illness; getting her license and a job on her 16th birthday, and working full-time at…
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Bucks County Leadership: Zane Moore, President & CEO of YMCA of Bucks County
Zane Moore, the President and CEO of the YMCA of Bucks County, spoke with BUCKSCO Today about growing up in Levittown and Fairless Hills; his vivid memories of selling lemonade, coffee, and cookies to drivers waiting in line to buy gas during the gasoline shortage of the late 1970s; the lessons he’s learned from the…
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Bucks County Leadership: Dr. Vail Garvin, President & CEO of Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce
Dr. Vail Garvin, President & Chief Executive Officer at Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce spoke with BUCKSCO Today about growing up in Levittown, overcoming polio as a young teenager, and how her struggle to overcome that debilitating illness led her to a career in healthcare. Noting that her chamber will be celebrating its 75th Anniversary…
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Bucks County Leadership: Brandon Rost, CEO of beMarketing
Brandon Rost, CEO of beMarketing, spoke with BUCKSCO.Today about learning the values of hard work and relationships in his childhood and teen years in Plymouth Meeting; starting his own lawn cutting business and helping his general contractor father with his part-time job delivering the early morning Philadelphia Inquirer; about his nine years bussing tables and…
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Bucks County Leadership: Coach Dick Vermeil
Dick Vermeil, the legendary football coach and Chester County resident who led the Philadelphia Eagles to Super Bowl XV, spoke with BUCKSCO Today about growing up in a close-knit community in Calistoga, Calif., where many families were immigrants from Tuscany and Italy’s Napa Valley and brought an interest in wine with them. He also discussed…
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