Independent Board Director
Julia Klein is an independent Board Director and a trusted advisor to private company and non-profit leaders, known for insightful questions, innovation, next-gen development, and problem-solving. With expertise in strategy, governance, mergers and acquisitions, distribution, and the construction industry, Ms. Klein led C.H. Briggs Company for over 30 years. The Company was one of the nation’s largest independently owned distributors of specialty interior building materials.
Ms. Klein is a member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia; Eastern States Group; Ballot PA; ConvergEd; Trustee at The College of Wooster; and holds a gubernatorial appointment to the Pennsylvania Early Learning Investment Commission. She is an Advisor with the Delaware Valley Family Business Center and Total Experience Learning at Alvernia University. She serves on the Advisory Boards of the Gupta Governance Institute at Drexel University, Modern Distribution Management, and Private Company Directors Magazine. She previously chaired Boards of the Berks County Community Foundation and Philadelphia Forum of Executive Women Foundation and served on the Boards of Reading Health System, National Association of Wholesalers Institute, Hedwin Corporation, Quaker Maid Meats and Arbill Safety.
Ms. Klein was honored as a “Private Company Director to Watch”, a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards© in Greater Philadelphia, and was honored with the Junior Achievement Entrepreneurial Hall of Fame Award, the Athena Award, as a Distinguished Girl Scout Alumna by the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania, and the Voices for Change award from Safe Berks. She also received the SmartCEO magazine Brava Award and Best Managed Companies in Philadelphia. She and her husband, Eric Jenkins, received the Thun Award for community service in 2022.
Ms.Klein is a graduate of The College of Wooster with a BA in Political Scienceand she earned her Master of Arts in Public Policy from the University of Chicago.