

Denise Devine
Membership Committee Chair
Denise L. Devine is an experienced independent board director and compensation committee and audit and risk committee chair under whose leadership an inaugural enterprise risk assessment was initiated and ongoing organization-wide monitoring processes established. Devine is also a qualified financial expert. Her leadership experience includes general management, operations, and finance. A proven innovator, she has developed technology platforms with resulting commercialized product applications and executed IP strategy, licenses, and strategic alliances. Her experience spans from entrepreneurial startups to Fortune 100 corporations.
Devine is founder and chief executive officer of FNB Holdings LLC, a company dedicated to initiatives in the health and wellness space. She is also a founder, CAO, and CFO of RTM Vital Signs LLC, an early-stage medical device company. As founder and CEO of Nutripharm Inc., Devine led the development of a technology platform that generated a portfolio of patents resulting in innovative natural food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and nutraceutical products. The company also had manufacturing operations. She has executed strategic alliances and licenses with pharmaceutical and food companies as well as research agreements with the U.S. government.
Devine's prior business experience includes executive positions at Campbell Soup Co. where she was responsible for executing over $1 billion in financings; devising and implementing investment strategy; structuring and negotiating various capital markets transactions, acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures in the food business. She was also CFO of Energy Solutions International, a global software company serving the oil and gas industry, as well as Columbia Gas System and Arthur Andersen & Co.
As a Board Director, Ms. Devine has extensive governance experience, including activist investor situations, private equity investors and initial public offerings. She currently serves as an independent Board Director and Chair - Audit Committee, member of the Risk Committee and former Chair – HR and Compensation Committee of Fulton Financial Corporation, (NASDAQ – FULT), Board Director and Chair – Compensation Committee, and member of the Audit and Nominating and Governance Committees at SelectQuote, Inc. (NYSE-SLQT) and Board member and member of the Audit Committee and Compensation Committee of Innovative Solutions and Support, Inc. (NASDAQ:ISSC). Additionally she is Co-Chair of the Board of Ben Franklin Technology Partners and serves on the Pennsylvania Ben Franklin Development Authority Board and is a member of the Investment Committee. Previously, Ms. Devine was an independent director of AgroFresh Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ –AGFS; Company sold in March, 2023) where she served as Chair – Compensation Committee and Audit Committee Member and of Cubic Corporation (NYSE – CUB; Company sold in May 2021), where she served on the Technology Strategy and Audit Committees and also formerly served on the Villanova University Board of Trustees and on the Board of Directors of Lourdes Health System (now Virtua Health).
Devine has received numerous honors and awards including the Best 50 Business Women in Pennsylvania Governor's Award, the Gold Medal Alumnae Award from Villanova University, the Take the Lead Award from the Girl Scouts, and the Iris Newman Award from the Alliance of Women Entrepreneurs. She has also held numerous professional leadership positions, including serving on the American Institute of CPAs Board of Directors and as president of the Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs, and she was appointed by the Governor of Pennsylvania to serve on The State Board of Accountancy, the ethics and licensing Board for the 25,000 CPAs in Pennsylvania, serving several years as chair of that board. She was also appointed by the Governor to serve on the Pennsylvania Blue Ribbon Business Tax Policy Reform Commission. Devine, a co-inventor on more than 20 U.S. and international patents, is also co-founder of The Alliance of Women Entrepreneurs and has served as an entrepreneur in residence at The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania.
Devine, a CPA, received an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, an MS in Taxation from Villanova University, and a BS in Accounting from Villanova University, graduating summa cum laude and first in her class.