ArtsQuest announces elected board chairs
ArtsQuest announced new and returning members to the board of trustees, ArtsQuest Foundation, ArtsQuest Performing & Visual Arts Boards and Friends of Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks.
Orville Trout has been elected for his first one-year term as chair of the ArtsQuest Board of Trustees. Trout, executive vice president of human resources, corporate affairs and administration at Crayola, has been a member of ArtsQuest’s volunteer leadership for the past four years, serving as a member of the board of trustees since 2019. Trout was appointed vice chair of the trustees and chair of the Governance Committee in 2022 and has served on the ArtsQuest Human Resources Committee since 2020.
Other officers elected are vice chair Joseph P. Bergstein, Jr., executive vice president and chief financial officer of PPL Corp.; secretary Robert Begliomini, senior vice president, Lehigh Valley Health Network and president, LVH-Muhlenberg; and treasurer Michael Vinci, vice president of finance, Wind Creek Bethlehem.
In addition, Ryan Dunn, partner, Dunn Twiggar Co. LLC, has been elected to serve on ArtsQuest Board of Trustees.
Jason Cort, president and founding partner at Quadrant Private Wealth, has been elected chair of the ArtsQuest Foundation; he has served on the foundation board since 2019, most recently as secretary.
Other officers elected and reelected to the ArtsQuest Foundation Board are vice chair Robert Oster, retired CEO for Concannon Miller Certified Public Accountants; secretary John Gagge, vice president battery operations, Americas for EnerSys; treasurer Joe Pietrantonio, retired vice president of Environmental, Health, Safety and Quality for Air Products.
Sonya Marie, vice chairwoman of the Robert Randolph Foundation and director, strategic partnerships at W.W. Grainger Inc., has been elected to serve on the ArtsQuest Foundation Board of Trustees.
Richard Liu, associate director, global marketing for Merck & Co., has been re-elected chair of the ArtsQuest Performing Arts and Visual Arts Board, with Deborah Sacarakis, retired artistic director of Zoellner Arts Center, has been re-elected as the board’s vice chair. Both Liu and Sacarakis are serving their second one-year terms.
Janear Hankerson, senior accountant at Valley Youth House; Jenny Founds, director and educator at School of Rock and international touring musician; and Hilary Brown, director of e-commerce, direct-to-consumer and channel programs at C.F. Martin & Co., have been elected to serve on the ArtsQuest Performing Arts Board.
Lee Riley, medical director of cancer at St. Luke’s Hospital and owner, Cancer Immunotherapies LLC, has been elected chair of the ArtsQuest Visual Arts Board and Melissa Siegfried, physician liaison at St. Luke’s University Health Network, has been elected the board’s vice chair. Both Riley and Siegfried are serving their first one-year term.
Erin Zebertavage, downtown manager of the Bethlehem SouthSide Arts District, has been elected chair of the Levitt Pavilion board. Additional elected board officers are vice chair
Kevin Janus, regional vice president, Ameritus; treasurer Daniel Miller, retired unit manager for Mack Trucks Inc.; secretary Philip Gauffreau, principal and discipline leader, geotechnical engineering services, Colliers Engineering & Design.
Dawn Cressman, special education teacher at Salisbury High School; Keith Micucci, CRNP, vice president operations, LVH-Muhlenberg; Daniel Torres, M.D., orthopedic hand and upper extremity surgeon at LVHN; and Cuong Tran, DDS at Tran Dental LLC have all been elected to serve on the Friends of the Levitt Pavilion at SteelStacks Board of Directors.