Originally from Cincinnati, OH, Cathy moved to Collegeville for her job with the pharmaceutical industry in 1993. Throughout her career, she has held executive-level and management positions both in the U.S. and internationally with four pharmaceutical companies: AstraZeneca, Astra/Astra Merck, Merck, and CIBA-Geigy (now Novartis). She has over 45 years of experience in communications, crisis management, and marketing.
Cathy has significantly contributed to the Collegeville community for the last 25 years. She has served five terms as a Councilwoman: from 1998-2000, 2004-2005, 2013-2016, 2017-2021, and from 2022 to the present. She currently serves as the Council President and heads the Borough Business Development Committee, which works with Ursinus College and the Borough to revitalize Collegeville’s Main Street. She also leads the Borough’s Personnel Committee. Additionally, for the past six years, she has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College.
Since 2009, Cathy has also been the President of the Collegeville Economic Development Corporation (CEDC), an all-volunteer non-profit organization. The CEDC promotes local businesses and organizes numerous family-friendly events in Collegeville, such as a “Dinner & a Show” promotion with the Ursinus College Theater Department, the Collegeville-Trappe Memorial Day Parade, “Movies on the Lawn,” Collegeville’s Colossal Yard Sale, the Collegeville Tree Lighting and Visit from Santa. The CEDC also publishes a monthly newsletter promoting Collegeville to nearly 3,000 subscribers.
Cathy has received several accolades for her community involvement. In 2014, the Collegeville Rotary honored her as “Citizen of the Year.” She received Ursinus College’s Sycamore Community Engagement Award in 2023. Most recently, in 2025, she was recognized with the Perkiomen Valley Chamber’s Marvin J. Lewis Community Service Award for her significant positive impact on the Collegeville area community.
She believes Collegeville’s Main Street has the potential to become a thriving business district and that all of us should continue to work together toward making Collegeville “A great Place to Come Home To” for our families.