The Bisbee Project is proud to announce the addition of Ben O'Neil to its Board of Directors. Ben will be sworn in during a brief ceremony at the BIZHub prior to the final Penn State regular-season game of the year, Saturday November 22, 2008.
President Steve Bisbee made the nomination and Managing Director Dan Bisbee seconded. Ben becomes the first at-large board member of the organization since its founding in 2006.
Ben currently serves as Director of Leasing and Development with a major real estate firm in the Washington, D.C. region. Ben started his career in energy futures trading on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange and later traded NASDAQ stocks and options on a proprietary basis. In 2002, Ben decided to attend graduate school at Penn State University where he deepened his passion for the great Pennsylvania pastimes of fly-fishing and Penn State football.
Ben’s interests in environmental stewardship and community development brought him to work with the Susquehanna River Greenway Project in conjunction with SEDA-COG during his years at Penn State. His charitable passions include issues which promote access to higher education and investment in local economic initiatives. The Bisbee Project is one of several charitable organizations that Ben serves as a board member.
“I’m a firm believer in Pennsylvania and Pennsylvanians,” Ben said. “We have been endowed with amazingly rich resources, both human and natural, and we deserve outstanding leadership to make sure we maintain our position in a globalized economy. I am proud to be a part of The Bisbee Project.”
Ben hails from Milford, PA and graduated from Delaware Valley High School in 1992. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Hobart College (1996). While at Penn State University, he earned a Bachelor’s in Landscape Architecture (2005) and an M.B.A. (Smeal College of Business 2006).
