Michael J. Donahue provides our Board of Directors with significant risk management and public company oversight experience, technology strategy and information systems experience, and experience in mergers and acquisitions at a local and national level.
Having served on the board of directors for a total of 21 public and private corporations and having spent his entire career serving in the finance and accounting industry, Mr. Donahue provides key insight to and oversight of the Company’s myriad responsibilities as a financial institution.
Mr. Donahue serves as Principal of Donahue Consulting, Inc. and as advisor to NewSpring Capital. He previously served as Group Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of KPMG Consulting, Inc. following its spin-off led by Mr. Donahue. He also served as Managing Partner, Consulting, of KPMG Consulting, Inc. from 1991 to 2000.
Mr. Donahue serves as independent director of Symphonic. He previously served as a member of the Provost’s Board of Villanova University, and as independent directors of Symphonic, Gluware, SiteSpect and Mobiquity. He served as a Trustee and then director of Beneficial Bancorp from 2015-2019.
Mr. Donahue also served as a member of the Board of Directors of KPMG LLP (US), KPMG Consulting KK (Japan) and as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of KPMG Consulting AG (Germany, Austria and Switzerland).
He received bachelor’s degrees in economics and history from the University of Pennsylvania and attended the International Management Program at the Wharton School of Business.
Mr. Donahue was appointed as a director of WSFS Financial Corporation in 2019 and will be up for reelection at the 2027 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.