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OUR ADVISORY BOARD

Crumdale Partners is governed by an esteemed Advisory Board of business leaders who bring deep knowledge and expertise across sectors.

“Since its founding, the Partners and I have been thoughtful and intentional in building Crumdale Partners. As the company continues to scale, our Advisory Board was established to help guide our growth. I am honored that these impressive individuals are willing to give their valuable time and expertise to make a positive impact on our organization and on the people we serve.”

Matthew S. Naylor

Our ADVISORY BOARD

Al Chiaradonna

Al is a global executive and Board Director with experience that spans financial services, professional services, Mergers & Acquisitions, PE-backed and incubator startups, and educational organizations. For more than 20 years he held dual roles as a senior executive with SEI Investments Company and as an Adjunct Professor of Strategy, Leadership, and Executive Coaching in the School of Business at Villanova University, combining his zeal for business with a passion for developing the next generation of business leaders. In both roles, he is known for bringing new business to market and effectively building and scaling teams.

As a member of the Executive Management Team at SEI Investments, Al led a multi hundred-million-dollar global outsourcing business and spearheaded the single largest investment in firm history, a strategic initiative to launch a new global technology and outsourcing platform in the UK. Al scaled the business from scratch growing it to a $100M+ unit within seven years. He also pioneered one of SEI’s first incubation experiments – an investment management outsourcing service for money managers that grew to be one of the firm’s largest segments.

In 2001, concurrent with his start at SEI, Al was recruited by the Dean of Villanova University to bring business expertise to their new Executive Education program and shape the Executive MBA strategy and offerings. He has won the “Excellence in Teaching” award 18 of his 21 years at the university. Al is the owner and founder of an Executive Coaching and Client Advising business, Dux Learning Salon, LLC. He has worked with leaders at organizations such as Dow Jones, Merck, Comcast, and various start-up and entrepreneurial leaders.

Al also serves as a board member for two independent schools. As Chair of the Board of Trustees for Gwnedd-Mercy Elementary School, he increased non-tuition revenue by 150% over three years and helped to grow enrollment by 30%. As Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees at AIM Academy, Al led strategic planning to launch an e-learning concept that has generated nearly $10M of revenue to date within three years of its launch.

Al earned a BBA in Accounting from Temple University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. A confident communicator in both the boardroom and the classroom, he is an award-winning business instructor, blog author, TEDx presentation creator, and certified Gallup Strengths coach. Al resides in the Philadelphia area with his wife and three children.

Brian Hughes

Brian enjoyed a distinguished 17-year career with KPMG as an Audit partner and operational leader, serving as KPMG’s National Private Markets Group Leader and National Co-Leader of the firm’s Venture Capital Practice until September 2019. He currently serves as Public Company Board Director and Audit Committee Chair to three companies and is an experienced advisor to VC and PE-backed portfolio companies, leveraging his nearly 40 years of diversified experience in public accounting with a unique specialization in serving high-growth Venture Capital and Private Equity portfolio companies as well as public companies.

At KPMG Brian’s visionary, inspirational leadership catapulted his channel forward, making it an engine of growth nationally. His client work centered on supporting entrepreneurs of high-growth companies throughout their entire life cycle: from development stage, through subsequent rounds of financing and other capital formation transactions, on to an IPO—he has worked on more than 40 over the course of his career—or acquisition by larger market participant. His work has spanned industries, with a concentration in the technology and healthcare spaces. Prior to joining KPMG, Brian was at Arthur Andersen for 21 years, where he made Partner and was the Leader of the Enterprise Group.

Building on his interests and experience as a strategic advisor to CEOs of public and private companies, Brian was the founder of an annual intensive CEO training program called QuantumShift. Brian championed this unique, collaborative program between KPMG and the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, and indeed, his entire career has embodied the QuantumShift motto: “Empowering Entrepreneurs. Transforming Businesses.” He is widely respected at KPMG for his thought leadership via several publications, including the Privately Speaking series and the quarterly Venture Pulse report—which remains one of the firm’s most popular and widely read thought leadership pieces.

Brian earned both his BS in Accounting and Economics and his MBA from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business and has been a Philadelphian ever since. He previously served on the Board of Directors for the New Jersey Technology Council and for the Greater Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies. He is currently an Advisory Board Member for the Penn Medicine Abramson Cancer Center. Brian and his wife, Julie, have been married for 38 years and are the proud parents of three hardworking daughters, all who have played collegiate-level tennis and one of whom is an All-American three years running.

Brian Scanlon

Brian is Managing Director of Council Advisors, an accomplished C-level executive at Fortune 250 companies, and a former partner at McKinsey & Company.

Brian Scanlon

Brian is Managing Director of Council Advisors, an accomplished C-level executive at Fortune 250 companies, and a former partner at McKinsey & Company.

Brian served as Chief Corporate Development Officer of the Guardian Life Insurance company, one of the largest and most successful life insurance companies in the United States. His responsibilities included strategy, venture investing, business development, marketing, and communications. He redesigned the firm’s risk and growth strategy to improve operating income while maintaining investment and capital discipline. Before Guardian, Brian served as Chief Strategy Officer at Thomson Reuters, the world’s largest professional information and news organization. While at Thomson Reuters, Brian oversaw strategy, marketing, product capital allocation, and business development. He was a member of the company’s Executive and Investment Committees and led the $20B divestiture of the company’s Financial & Risk division to Blackstone in 2018.

Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Brian was a Partner at McKinsey & Company for eight years, where he helped clients set strategy and connect strategic decisions to resource allocation and performance management. He held numerous leadership positions, including the CFO of the Northeast Region of the US, head of the North American Corporate Finance & Strategy practice for the Industrial sector, and the head of the Private Equity practice in Southeast Asia. Brian was a leader of McKinsey’s global High-Tech industry practice and led its research activities. Brian worked extensively with leading global organizations, having lived in New York, London, and Singapore while with McKinsey.

Brian serves on the boards of several not-for-profits focused on education, and his current board service includes the Zurich International School Foundation, and the Villanova Business School Dean’s Advisory Council.

Brian earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting summa cum laude from Villanova University, and his master’s in business administration from Harvard Business School.

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