Kathleen Brunner

President & CEO

2004 - Current

A WBE innovation leader, Kathleen has nearly 30 years’ implementing innovative forward focused technologies & solutions as an entrepreneur, executive, investor, & board member. As both a CEO and CIO member of leadership teams, she brings with her work experience from many of the top Life Science & other Fortune 500 companies coupled with go to market experience,technical,strategic & execution capabilities to contribute to the success of organizations.Over the past decade she has built innovative solutions which have resulted in multi-million-dollar exits & acquisitions by Life Science Leaders. She serves on PACT’s Mentor Connect program which leverages the wisdom & insight of the Ben Franklin & PACT communities for the progress of their entrepreneurs. Today female chief executives remain exceedingly rare in the drug industry, accounting for less than 10% of biotech's top leaders,the share of women as technology CEOs increased from a mere 3.9% in 2020 to just 10.9% in 2021, & less than 1 in 5 Fortune 500 CIOs identify as women. She uses her roles as CEO & CIO to inspire younger females & works within her peer & professional organizations as a mentor to help promote, offer career advice, organizational & operational guidance,& general motivation. She is extremely proud of her team of innovators and problem solvers who work tirelessly in pursuit of their mission to help the Life Sciences win the race against time through data and technology solutions that enable intelligent digital transformation. As a member & investor of the Broad Street Angels she joins members with highly successful backgrounds in numerous industries with the purpose of driving investment tot startups in the Mid-Atlantic region. Additionally, she serves on the Boards of the Alliance of Women Entrepreneurs, Team Pennsylvania & Pearl S. Buck International as a director & member of the Audit committees & holds or has held leadership positions with a variety of professional and non-profit organizations

Board Member

2023

ZSX Medical is a medical device company that develops surgical tools to help surgeons perform minimally-invasive surgery. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Chief Information Officer

2021

A Global Technology Company Dedicated to Affordable Medicine. - Phylloceuticals uses a plant-made technology which offers lower overall investment and a much quicker response time for drug development. Phylloceuticals will enable drug development and manufacturing to happen fast (PhAAST™), achieving our goal to empower underserved areas of the world by providing access to the medicines that other areas of the world take for granted. Phylloceuticals is not a CDMO. We are not a biologics or pharma company. With our Plant-Made Pharmaceutical platform, our mission is to nucleate, enable, and help construct companies in these traditionally underserved regions and markets that lack capacity to manufacture biologics with our plant-made technology. We call it PhAAST™ - Pharmaceuticals as a Service Technology.

Chief Member

2021

Chief is a private network built to drive more women into positions of power and keep them there. Chief is the only organization specifically designed for senior women leaders to strengthen their leadership journey, cross-pollinate ideas across industries, and effect change from the top down.

Board Member

2021

Committee Member

2018

Broad Street Angels is a Union League affinity club. It is a member-led investors network focusing on early stage, high-growth businesses in the Mid-Atlantic region, as a means of growing the region’s economy, retaining and attracting talent and fostering innovations that strengthen our civic infrastructure.

Board Member

2016

Pearl S. Buck International carries on Pearl S. Buck’s legacy of bridging cultures and changing lives through humanitarian aid, intercultural education, and historical tours of the Pearl S. Buck House, a National Historic Landmark. Pearl S. Buck was a writer, activist, and humanitarian. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Literature for her novel, The Good Earth, and the Nobel Prize in Literature for her body of work. Ms. Buck used the spotlight on her to shine a light on the plight of marginalized people everywhere and to advocate for the civil rights movement in the U.S. She also founded Welcome House (the world’s first international biracial adoption agency) and established The Pearl S. Buck Foundation (now Pearl S. Buck International) to provide international humanitarian aid. Ms. Buck’s groundbreaking words and work paved the way for greater international and intercultural understanding. They also provided life-changing aid for countless impoverished children.

Board Member

2019 - 2022

​​​The Cybersecurity Certificate Program at Ithaca College includes case studies, presentations, and evaluations that provides a conceptual framework for you to manage cyber risk, regulations, policies, and more.

Women's Leadership Council Board Member

2009 - 2016

The Women’s Leadership Council (WLC), founded just two years ago, was established with the mission of providing advice, mentorship and hands-on programming for current female students as they prepare to enter the corporate world. The Council comprises high-ranking professional women who are company leaders, entrepreneurs or small business owners, and have ties to Saint Joseph’s University.

Vice President

2007 - 2010