The Donald M. Gruhn '49 Distinguished Finance Speaker Series is made possible through the support of Don and Judy Gruhn. The series was established in 2008.
Cathy Engelbert '86 '23P was appointed Commissioner of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) in July 2019. As the WNBA’s first Commissioner, Engelbert is responsible for setting the vision for the WNBA and overseeing the league’s day-to-day business and basketball operations. The WNBA is a progressive professional basketball league that stands for the power of women, comprised of 12 teams featuring the best women’s basketball players in the world.
Engelbert has more than 30 years of experience in business and operations. Previously, Engelbert was CEO of Deloitte, where she led one of the largest professional services organizations in the U.S. with more than 100,000 professionals. Over the course of her tenure, she led a large transformation across the business by moving the firm towards emerging technologies such as AI, blockchain, robotics and cloud, including securing ecosystem partnerships with large technology companies and executing digital acquisitions. During her tenure, revenues grew more than 30 percent, and Engelbert drove a people-first agenda, including implementing a holistic well-being culture through programs like Deloitte’s 16-week family leave policy.
Engelbert received a B.S. in accounting from Lehigh University and is a certified public accountant licensed in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. During her time at Lehigh, Engelbert was a member of the university’s basketball and lacrosse teams and served as a senior captain for both teams. On the court, she played for former Lehigh coach and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer Muffet McGraw. Engelbert’s father, Kurt, played for Naismith Hall of Fame coach Jack Ramsay at Saint Joseph’s University and was drafted in 1957 by the NBA’s Detroit Pistons.
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