Michael J. Donahue

Michael J. Donahue has been a director of WSFS Financial Corporation since March 2019. He served as a trustee and then a director of Beneficial from 2015 until its merger with WSFS. He is a retired partner of KPMG LLP, the global audit, tax, and advisory firm, where he served as the managing partner, technology solutions, of its global consulting business. He 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 managed the process to spin off the consulting division as a $3.6 billion consulting and systems integration firm and served as its Group Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. He led the IPO of KPMG Consulting, Inc. (NASDAQ: KCIN), later renamed BearingPoint, Inc. (NYSE: BE). While Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Donahue led a global expansion program, completing 34 merger and acquisition transactions which added $1.1 billion of annual revenue.

Mr. Donahue operates a business advisory firm, Donahue Consulting, Inc., and serves as an advisor to NewSpring Capital in Radnor, Pennsylvania. Mr. Donahue graduated with bachelor’s degrees in economics and history from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed the International Management Program at the University’s Wharton School. Mr. Donahue is a member of the Provost’s Board of Villanova University and endowed the Donahue Family Analytics Program at the Villanova School of Business. He began his career as a Research Associate in Econometrics at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

Mr. Donahue has significant Board experience having served on the board of directors for a total of 20 public and private corporations ranging from large public company boards to emerging growth company boards. Since 2015, Mr. Donahue has served as an independent director of SiteSpect, a marketing and personalization software business located in Boston. Mr. Donahue served as an independent director of Mobiquity, a privately held, Massachusetts-based technology services company, from 2014 to 2020, until it was acquired by Hexaware, Inc. In 2021, Mr. Donahue became an independent director of Gluware, a networking and configuration management software company, based in Sacramento, California. Mr. Donahue provides the Board of Directors with significant technology strategy and information systems experience across a wide range of industries, experiences mergers, and acquisitions at a local and national level, and offers significant risk management and public company oversight experience.