Board of directors
Dr. Adam Assoian
President
Dr. Adam Assoian is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and the Owner and Clinical Director of Ally Psychological Services in Doylestown. He has worked in a variety of settings, including a Community Mental Health Center for low-income individuals, a College Counseling Center, a Psychiatric Hospital, two different private practices, a Residential Treatment Facility for adolescents, and an Outpatient facility that provided therapeutic services for adults and adolescents involved in the legal system for behavioral problems.
TJ Lonergan
Vice President
TJ Lonergan currently serves as the Executive Director for the Bucks County Industrial Development Authority. Mr. Lonergan leads the largest economic development agency in Bucks County and is actively involved in everything from small business loans to large redevelopment projects. He is a proud CB South class of 2009 alumni!
Josh Artau
Treasurer
Former finance executive, who specialized in alternative Investments, in the Private Equity, Hedge Fund, and REIT industries. He has managed projects and teams globally across compliance, operations, accounting, and investment management.  Josh is a graduate of CB East and he and his wife (a school psychologist) are raising three boys who attend John Barclay Elementary School in Warrington.
Angela Linch
Secretary
Angela Linch is a seasoned public relations professional with more than 25 years of communications, media relations, and community outreach experience. Her career has been comprised of serving the communications needs of North Penn, Methacton, and Central Bucks school districts before transitioning to lead the public relations efforts of Doylestown Health as their Director of Communications.
Linch has also helped to form two school district education foundations, including the Central Bucks and the Methacton education foundations. She has volunteered her time and expertise in leadership roles for state and national school public relations professional organizations, as well as her children’s parent teacher organizations. A graduate of Cabrini University, she and her husband live in New Britain Township with their three children, including a Central Bucks High School South graduate and two CB South juniors.
Jackie Monturano
Executive Director
Jackie Monturano is a seasoned sales and marketing professional with a wealth of
experience in devising innovative revenue strategies across various domains, including custom publishing, events, branded content, client strategy, and, most recently, philanthropy and fundraising. In her current capacity as the Senior Director of Philanthropy, she oversees every facet of the grantmaking process at The Philadelphia Inquirer, encompassing proposal development, contract management, budgeting, interim reporting, and impact assessment. She is a proud parent to twin boys currently attending Central Bucks West. She understands and appreciates the positive influence that the dedicated teachers, staff, and administration at Central Bucks have had on her children’s education. She is thrilled to contribute to this foundation’s transformative mission, aiming to enhance opportunities for growth and success for all CBSD students.
Jane Bell
A lifelong educator, Jane served in both public and independent schools. She was most recently on the Executive Leadership Team at Marymount School of New York where she cultivated benefactor partnerships and held positions including Head of Middle School, Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Director of Testing and Learning Resources, and Chief of Program Planning. While raising her three sons in Maryland, she served as an administrator, teacher, and teacher specialist in Harford County Public Schools. She was Federal Relations Chair for her professional organization lobbying Congress in support of public education and special education funding. Jane is a birder, loves to travel, read, sing, host parties, and is a proud grandmother of 4 including a grandson who is a student at Linden Elementary and a granddaughter who will soon follow in her brother’s CBSD footsteps.
Thomas Donnelly
Thomas Donnelly is an experienced litigation and transactional attorney with over 30 years of practice providing practical, strategic advice to businesses and individuals seeking a skillful and knowledgeable advocate. Tom’s practice focuses primarily on commercial litigation and transactions and the representation of both individual and corporate clients in matters relating to business and commercial disputes.
Tom is an active member of the Bucks County Public Service Community. In this regard, Tom has been appointed a lifetime member of the Board of Directors for the Bucks County United Way. In addition, Tom is past President of the Bucks County Bar Association, past President of the Young Lawyers Division, and a past member of the Bar Association Board of Directors. Tom also serves on the board of directors of Roxy Therapy Dogs.Â
Dr. Lixia Yao
Dr. Lixia Yao is the founder and CEO of Polygon Health Analytics LLC, which specializes in developing high-quality real-world data (RWD) and real-world evidence (RWE) in disease areas with pressing unmet medical needs. With a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Columbia University, Dr. Yao previously worked as the director of Real-world Data Analytics & Innovation at Merck and an Associate Professor in Biomedical Informatics at Mayo Clinic. She has cultivated a deep understanding of RWD and authored 60+ peer-reviewed articles on prestigious journals such as Nature Biotechnology, Genome Research, and Drug Discovery Today with a H-index of 20.
Dr. Yao received the Career Development Award in Biomedical Informatics from the National Library of Medicine (2016-2019). She is also a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA) and served as the Chair of the AMIA KDDM working group (2020-2022). Currently, she holds the additional roles of Member Engagement Co-Chair for the Oncology Special Interest Group at the Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR), Director of Business Insights & Analytics at SAPA-GP, and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Health Services Administration and Policy at Temple University.
Bryan Reilly
Bryan spent most of his adolescence growing up in Buckingham, PA and attended Cold Spring Elementary, Holicong Middle School, and CB East High School. After high school, he attended University of Pittsburgh, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Finance (and a minor in Economics). During college and upon graduation, Bryan worked in wealth management for a number of prominent insurance and financial institutions. In 2010, Bryan changed industries and roles, starting as a staff accountant with Pond Lehocky Giordano LLP, one of the country’s largest personal injury law firms. While working at Pond Lehocky, he also pursued his MBA, and graduated from Drexel University with a concentration in Finance. In 2013, Bryan was appointed Chief Financial Officer of Pond Lehocky, and has helped support the firm’s growing presence both in the tri-state area, as well as nationally.Â
In addition to his work with the firm, Bryan has also helped start and owns a number of other small businesses, most adjacent to the legal industry. In his professional capacity, Bryan has been a featured speaker at Drexel University and Temple University, and has authored or been cited in numerous articles in publications such as The Legal Intelligencer and American Bar Association Journal. Bryan has also volunteered with other non-profit organizations, most notably serving as Treasurer for the Epilepsy Foundation of Eastern Pennsylvania. Bryan and his wife, as well as much of their families, continue to live in the Central Bucks community.
Jamie Debuque
Sue Klimpl
Sue holds a BA in European History from The George Washington University, a Masters of Education
from Lehigh University, and a Principal’s Certificate from Temple University. Her educational roles in
Central Bucks over many years have included being a CBSD teacher, student support counselor ,
assistant principal (Cold Spring Elementary), and principal (Butler Elementary and Linden Elementary).
She was also a guest lecturer at Rosemont College.Sue was a founding member and past President of the Board of Directors of the Bucks County World Language Academy, focused on introducing Spanish and French to elementary children in a before and after school program housed in CBSD and Pennsbury schools. She has also been actively involved in serving the community as a member of the Bucks County Symphony Orchestra Board of Directors.
Working with the Foundation and its partnership with CBSD, she looks forward to enhancing the educational opportunities of all CB children and families.
Ed Ghisu
As deputy general counsel and chief investment counsel at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Ed Ghisu has primary legal responsibility for overseeing the investment of the Foundation’s assets, including impact investments. He also serves as the primary legal representative for several of the Foundation’s areas of programmatic focus as well as information technology and various operational matters. Ed joined RWJF in 2006 after twelve years in private practice at various firms in the Philadelphia area.
Ed received his JD from Temple University School of Law and his BA in political science from West Chester University. He has lived in the Central Bucks School District since 2007, and his two children and two step-children all attended school in the District, with two graduates of Central Bucks West High School and two set to graduate CB West in 2025.
