On the Boards

The Fairmount Park Conservancy, the primary private-sector fund-raising entity for Fairmount Park, has appointed Nancy A. Goldenberg and Theodore K. Smith to its board. Goldenberg is the vice president of planning for the Center City District. Smith is the chief executive officer, president and trustee of Delaware Optimum Funds.

Rite Aid Corp., the Camp Hill drugstore chain, said it had appointed John M. Baumer to its board. He is a partner with the private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners L.P., an affiliate of Green Equity Investors III L.P., which has the right to elect a director under an agreement with Rite Aid regarding purchase of Rite Aid preferred stock in October 1999. Green replaces Jon Sokoloff, managing partner of Leonard Green & Partners, who resigned.

Tangent Energy Solutions, a Kennett Square firm that is developing sustainable-energy strategies, appointed Nora Mead Brownell, Richard Grigg and Donald Kendall to its board. Mead Brownell is a former commissioner for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. Grigg most recently was president of FirstEnergy Utilities. Kendall is founding managing director and CEO of Kenmont.

J. Bradford McIlvain was appointed to the executive committee of the board of the March of Dimes' Southeastern Pennsylvania Division, where he will be chair of the division's Revenue and Development Standing Committee. McIlvain is a partner in the Philadelphia office of Archer & Greiner, and is Pennsylvania chair of the firm's Construction and Real Estate Litigation Practice.

Ed Hutchinson, principal and president of Hutchinson Mechanical Services, Cherry Hill, was elected to the board of Churchill Casualty Ltd., a captive insurance company based in the Cayman Islands.

The Smart Energy Initiative of Southern Pennsylvania, a regional, public-private energy industry partnership sponsored by the Chester County Economic Development Council, appointed Catharine Swan to its board. She is executive director of residential energy and efficiency, and of the Eco-Academy at GREENandSAVE L.L.C.

AmerisourceBergen Corp., a Chesterbrook drug distributor, appointed Steven H. Collis, president and chief operating officer, to its board. Collis will be a member of the executive and finance committee of the board and will succeed R. David Yost, chief executive officer, when Yost retires July 1.