MATTHEW PETROZELLI

Petrozelli, Valley National Financial Advisors executive vice president and chief operating officer, has been accepted into the Forbes Finance Council, an invitation-only community for executives in accounting, financial planning, wealth and asset management and investment firms.

Petrozelli joins other Forbes Finance Council members to become part of a curated network of successful peers and get access to a variety of exclusive benefits and resources, including the opportunity to submit thought leadership articles and short tips on industry-related topics for publishing on Forbes.com.

Forbes Councils combines an innovative, high-touch approach to community management perfected by the team behind Young Entrepreneur Council with the extensive resources and global reach of Forbes. As a result, Forbes Council members get access to the people, benefits and expertise they need to grow their businesses and a dedicated member concierge who acts as an extension of their own team, providing personalized one-on-one support.

DONALD M. BERNHARD and THE REV. BOB STEVENS

The Trustees of The Century Fund have appointed Bernhard and Stevens to succeed John Leh II and Grant E. Harrity as trustees.

Donald M. Bernhard is Eexecutive director of the Downtown Allentown Community Development Initiative, an initiative aimed at revitalizing Center City Allentown neighborhoods. He served as director of community affairs at PPL Corp. from 1996 to 2014. Prior to joining PPL, Bernhard served for 20 years as community development director of Allentown. Bernhard is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and received an master of arts degree political science/public administration from Brown University.

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The Rev. Bob Stevens has served as senior pastor of Zion's Liberty Bell United Church of Christ in Allentown since 1995. A nationally certified intentional interim pastor, Stevens served on the educational faculty of the Interim Ministry Network, Baltimore, and was a referral consultant for the Alban Institute, Washington, D.C. He is a master's graduate of Moravian Theological Seminary and Princeton Theological Seminary, and was an adjunct faculty instructor at both seminaries.

DR. JEFFREY WISOTZKEY

Wisotzkey has joined Health Network Laboratories as clinical laboratory director. Wisotzkey will continue to serve as HNL's Scientific Officer, a position he has held since 2015, leading HNL's diagnostics innovation portfolio in molecular precision medicine.

With more than 25 years of experience leading strategic, scientific and laboratory operations in various clinical settings, including the past two years as Scientific Officer at HNL, Wisotzkey is eager to lead HNL through a future filled with exciting opportunities.

Wisotzkey's vision for the future of testing at HNL originates from the company's longstanding dedication to improving outcomes for patients and reducing costs for healthcare systems. By using tests that are targeted to reveal a patient's individual profile, all the way down to the molecular and genetic levels, HNL's diagnostic testing provides actionable information to caregivers that leads to improved disease screening and prevention strategies, to more appropriate and timely treatments, which all leads to lower costs and better outcomes.

Wisotzkey received his doctoral degree from the University of Houston in molecular biology and completed his postdoctoral training at Pennsylvania State University's Hershey Medical Center. He is a board certified High Complexity Laboratory Director (HCLD), a Clinical Consultant (CC) and the creator and director of one of the first molecular labs in the nation to be established in a community-based teaching hospital The Molecular Diagnostics and Research Laboratory at York Hospital. He previously served as Clinical Laboratory Director at Genomind, and prior to that as Technical Director of Laboratory Operations at the Central Pennsylvania Alliance Laboratory.

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