Denise Devine
Founder & CEO, FNB Holdings
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. Devine serves as an independent director and on the executive committees of the following boards: Fulton Financial Corp., AgroFresh Solutions Inc., SelectQuote Inc., AUS, Inc., and Ben Franklin Technology Partners. She is also an independent director of Cubic Corp. She has completed a 10-year tenure on the Villanova University Board of Trustees, where she served as chair of the Audit and Risk Committee and as a member of the Investment Committee and Executive Committee. Devine is also a passionate children’s nutrition and health advocate. She is chair of The Advisory Board of the MacDonald Center for Obesity Prevention and Nutrition Education at Villanova University Nursing School, served for 10 years on the Board of Lourdes Health System, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Marketing and Consumer Insight at Villanova University School of Business. She is also co-chair of Women Corporate Directors - Philadelphia Chapter and serves on the NACD Philadelphia Chapter Board. 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.