Kelley M Lynch ’87 is the Immediate Past President of the Alumni Association. Lynch was appointed to the Council’s Executive Board in 2017 to serve as the Treasurer and Chair of the Budget and Finance Committee.  Prior, she served on the Alumni Engagement committee.  Lynch was elected to the Alumni Council in 2016.

Lynch earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the Penn State Business School, now the Smeal College of Business in 1987, and her MBA from Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business in 1994.

Professionally, Lynch has spent most of her career leading finance, customer satisfaction and human resources teams in helping to grow international companies based in and around Pittsburgh, PA. The industries she has worked in have varied from currently in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, to pharmaceutical services, medical equipment manufacturing, and engineering and construction companies. Currently she is the Chief Financial Officer for sovaSage. She enjoys working with cross functional teams to help scale and prepare companies for significant growth.

Lynch attended University Park for her undergraduate degree, but she understands the importance of Penn State’s Land Grant Mission and has gotten significantly involved with the Penn State Greater Allegheny Campus. Lynch is on the campus’s Advisory Board and she is also co-chairing the ‘Greater Penn State for 21st Century Excellence’ campaign for the campus.

In addition to her volunteer work with Penn State, Lynch has also been involved in numerous community and church organizations in Pittsburgh including The Center for Victims, Leadership Pittsburgh, The Tepper School of Business and the finance council of her parish. She also spends as much time as she can with her seven nieces and nephews, going to their various school, sporting and arts events, and working to make them all Penn State fans!