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DENISE MORRISON
Senior Vice President and PresidentNorth America Soup, Sauces, and Beverages
Denise joined Campbell in April 2003 as Senior Vice President and President-Global Sales/Chief Customer Officer, and was named President-Campbell USA in June 2005. Previously, she served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Kraft Foods' Snacks and Confections divisions, responsible for leading brands such as Planters nuts, Life Savers candies, and Altoids mints.
Denise began her career in the sales organization at Procter & Gamble in Boston, Mass. She later joined Pepsi-Cola in Trade and Business Development. She then spent most of the 1980s at Nestle USA, where she held senior marketing and sales positions, including Business Director for Confections Marketing, National Sales Manager Frozen/Chilled, and Vice President Marketing and Sales for Nestle Ice Cream Company.
In 1995, Denise moved to Nabisco Inc., where she served as Senior Vice President and led the Nabisco Food Company's sales organization and was General Manager for the Down the Street division.
Denise serves on various Boards including The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company and is a former Director of Ballard Power Systems Inc. She is a member of the GMA Industry Affairs Council. She serves on the NJ Economic Advisory Council for the Governor. Non-Profit Boards include Students In Free Enterprise and Chair of the Advisory Board for Catalyst. She is former President of the New Jersey Women’s Forum and has served on the Board of the Food Industry Crusade Against Hunger and Leadership California.
In 2008, Denise was named as one of the Top 50 Women in Business in the State of NJ by NJBIZ Magazine. In 2007, Denise was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the Top 50 Women to Watch. She was also awarded the “Aiming High Award” by Legal Momentum, the Garden State “Woman of the Year” for Corporations by Garden State Women magazine and was selected as a “Top Woman in Grocery” by Progressive Grocer magazine and was honored with the “Salute to Policy Makers” award by the Executive Women of New Jersey in 2007. She was named “Executive of the Year” for 2003 by Snack Food & Bakery magazine. Also in 2003, Denise received the “Althea Gibson Beacon Award” for Business Leadership and was separately recognized as a New Jersey "Woman of Influence" by NJBIZ magazine. In 2001, she was appointed to the New York YWCA Academy of Women Achievers.
Denise earned her Bachelor of Science degree in economics and psychology from Boston College in 1975, graduating magna cum laude. She was inducted into the Order of the Cross and Crown Honor Society for academic and extracurricular achievement.
She is married to Tom and has two daughters, Michelle and Kelly.
MADELINE M. SHERRY, Esq.
Director, Gibbons P.C.
Madeline Sherry, has a longstanding history of community service, both related to her profession as an attorney, and on a personal level with projects designed to help the community at large. She has held leadership roles in many community service organizations and demonstrates a commitment to become personally involved with individuals in need of mentoring and counseling. Madeline is a Director in the law firm of Gibbons P.C. where she focuses her practice in the areas of employment and products liability litigation. She is a past president and first woman to lead the Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel. Ms. Sherry has been recognized among the leading lawyers in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers in America publications.
Madeline has served as a leader in the Philadelphia legal community for many years. She has focused her bar association involvement in pro bono activities. She has served on the Executive Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Foundation, the charitable arm of the Philadelphia Bar Association. Madeline was a driving force in establishing The Homeless Advocacy Project (“HAP”), which was created by Philadelphia Bar Association in 1990 to assist Philadelphia‘s homeless with their legal problems. She served as the President of the Homeless Advocacy Project and continues to serve as a Board Member and volunteer. With Madeline’s guidance, the Gibbons firm supports a legal clinic for the Homeless Advocacy Project. Madeline has worked for many years with Sister Mary Scullion at Project H.O.M.E., including helping to organize volunteer activities with children in the Diamond Street Community .
She has handled pro bono cases for a variety of other Philadelphia pro bono organizations, including the Legal Clinic for the Disabled and for Philadelphia VIP, a pro bono organization founded by her husband, Frank Devine.
While attending Temple University School of Law, Madeline participated in programs designed to teach the elderly about their legal rights. After graduating from law school, Madeline worked in the Philadelphia District Attorneys’ Office, where she represented children who were the victims of crime. Through her work, she learned of the Support Center for Child Advocates, a pro bono organization that pairs volunteer attorneys with children who appear as witnesses in court. She and her firm continue to support this organization, as well as the Homeless Advocacy Project, VIP, The Legal Clinic for the Disabled and other pro bono organizations.
Madeline’s leadership and service date back to high school where she served as President of the Service Committee at Rosemont School of the Holy Child High School and volunteered at St. Francis Country House and Haverford Hospital. Through Philadelphia Futures she currently serves as a mentor for a young woman who is a freshman at Penn State University. Madeline serves on the Board of Philadelphia Futures. She received the Mentor of the Year Award from Philadelphia Futures in 2008 and the St. Francis Medallion in 2006 for community service.
Madeline is married to Frank Devine, another Philadelphia lawyer who is deeply committed to community work. They are the proud parents of Patrick Devine, a senior at Villanova University and Michael Devine, a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania.
AHMEENAH YOUNG
President and Chief Executive Officer
Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority
Ahmeenah Young is an accomplished senior executive in the tourism and hospitality industry with outstanding credentials and a proven record of results. Across all of her professional posts she has consistently maintained diligent focus on growth in productivity and made bottom-line profitability a priority. She was appointed President and CEO of the Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority in June of 2008.
Young’s top line responsibilities include supervision of day-to-day operational activities and facility management of the Pennsylvania Convention Center in accordance with the objectives and goals established by the Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the City of Philadelphia. She is charged with effectively developing and leading all organizational procedures, policies and guidelines to support the Authority’s long-range goals and overall mission of standing out as a leader in the convention marketplace.
As president and CEO, Young also recommends and implements all contractual and vendor services, directs all recruiting processes and participates in interviewing, selection and training of PCCA employees according to established guidelines. Her role also oversees marketing, public relations and customer service programs as well as development of budgets, financial policies and fiscal controls for the operation of the PCCA. In addition, Young serves as the PCCA’s liaison/representative to Local, Regional and State legislative bodies, the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau and other non-governmental agencies and organizations in the convention and trade show industry and local community.