Chairman, Mike Krauss is a former officer of Pennsylvania county and state government and former Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee. An executive in the international logistics and distribution industry, he has been VP Leasing and later VP International Sales for the Strick Companies (Fairless Hills, PA) , CEO of Remex SA de CV (Mexico City) and AVP Automotive and Intermodal for a Class I North American railroad, TFM SA de CV, now Kansas City Southern de Mexico (Mexico City). He was a founding director of the Public Banking Institute and publishes a regular newspaper oped column and is working on publication of a collection of those opeds, Oped from the Middle Class
Director Frank S. Archibald is a retired Penn State university faculty member who taught New Product Development and Supply Chain Management and Mechanical Engineering (Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, and Heat Transfer) and was an engineering supervisor of research and development in Hydroacoustics. He has served on the Board of the State Theatre and currently volunteers at the Discovery Space (children’s) Museum.
Treasurer and Director, Vanya Tyrrell is a successful small business owner with a fifteen person, two office business providing financial reporting and accounting services. The mother of five, Vanya has been long active in municipal and county government. She was the first woman elected chairman of the Bucks County Housing Authority Board of Directors and was selected for her small business experience, community service and financial expertise to serve on the board of the Bucks County Enterprize Zone. Vanya served as campaign treasurer for former Democratic Congressman Patrick Murphy (PA 8th).
Legal Affairs Adviser, Tim Broadt, Esq. earned his B.A. degree in 1971 from Franklin and Marshall College and his J.D. from Temple University in 1974, where he was as an editor of the Temple Law Review. In 1982 he received his master’s degree in Taxation from Temple University. He specializes in the areas of Corporate Planning, Business, Real Estate and Estate Planning. For the last seven years Tim has been named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer and has an AV Rating, the highest available by Martindale-Hubbell’s Peer Review rating system.
Senior Adviser Ellen H Brown launched the public banking campaign in 2011 with formation of the Public Banking Institute, which she chairs. An attorney, she is author of Web of Debt and The Public Bank Solution, and is a prolific and widely published, globally recognized expert on banking reform, central banks and the international debt and credit markets.
Adviser Lynne Anderson Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Human Resource Management, Temple University, teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the area of Business, Society and Ethics. Her published work focuses on the “social maladies of late capitalism: and the need to “humanize” contemporary business culture.
Adviser Jeffrey D. Beck was President of Advanta Bank Corp. in Salt Lake City Utah and Senior Vice President and Director of Colonial National Bank in Wilmington Delaware, as well as Treasurer of Advanta Corp. Prior to Advanta, Jeff was a Vice President with Industrial Valley Bank and Trust Company and then Fidelity Bank in Philadlphia. From 1970 through 1980, Jeff served in various treasury and planning capacities for Wilmington Trust. He is on the board of numerous civic organizations, is a Trustee of Ursinus College and serves as Treasurer of his township government.
Adviser Ron Brajkovich Ron Brajkovich has more than thirty five years experience in sales and sales management of printing equipment and direct mail production. He is a small business owner of residential and commercial property and is currently developing a small, sustainable farm east of Philadelphia. His youngest son has been home schooled since the 7th grade, and in response to the Covid 19 school shutdown, Ron is working with other parents in the community to strengthen curricula and support for home schooling. After reading Ellen Brown’s book, Web of Debt when it was released, he became one of the earliest supporters of public banking in Pennsylvania.
Adviser John Hemington is a founding director of the Pennsylvania Project, retired attorney and highly regarded lecturer on Modern Economics and Banking. He currently offers a seminar on these topics at the Mount Lebanon Public Library and with director John Leonard organized the Pennsylvania Project’s participation with the Pittsburgh New Economy Working Group.
Adviser John Leonard is a native of Beaver County and a lifetime resident of southwestern Pennsylvania. A retired electrical worker and member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) he has been leading the effort to educate local government and union officials about the opportunity public banking presents to foster economic development, job creation and infrastructure renovation. He is also working on solutions to the problem of massive student debt.
Adviser Walt McRee is a former director of the PA Project, Senior Advisor to the Public Banking Institute (PBI) and chair of the Public Banking Associates . He is a media consultant, writer, producer, marketing entrepreneur and voice talent who has devised and executed national media campaigns for world hunger, the environment, public broadcasting and the arts and was CEO of the Alliance for Public Broadcasting. His media initiatives intend to expand citizen participation in the control of public moneys and he currently co-hosts and produces the radio weekly radio broadcast, “It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown.”
Adviser, Frank Nuessle holds a degree in Economics from Princeton University and an MBA in Finance and Marketing from the University of Rochester. He has developed and taught graduate classes in sustainability at the University of Pennsylvania and Thomas Edison Sate College, including Principles of Sustainable Management and Corporate Social Responsibility. His broad business experience includes the cable television industry where he was a Director of both the New York State and Oregon Cable Television Associations, and he founded a spoken word audio publishing company, Enhanced Audio Systems (EAS), Audios for an Ecological Age.
Adviser Stan Shapiro received his B.A. from the City College of New York and his law degree from NYU School of Law. He worked at Philadelphia Community Legal Services in its housing law unit and later was Chief Staff Attorney at Northwest Tenants Organization. In 1982 Stan became Counsel to Philadelphia City Council. Upon retirement he founded Philadelphia Neighborhood Networks in 2005, a progressive, grass roots advocacy organization of which he is currently vice-chairperson. He is co-coordinator of the Philadelphia MoveOn Council.