Interim President
Drexel University
Denis O’Brien, a 1987 MBA graduate of Drexel’s Bennett S. LeBow College of Business, has been a member of Drexel’s Board of Trustees for two decades. He has headed high-performing institutions in the Philadelphia region for more than 30 years. Most recently he served as Senior Executive Vice President of Exelon and CEO of Exelon Utilities, where he led the nation’s largest family of electric and natural gas distribution companies. He guided transformation of the company from two, independently managed utilities to an integrated, six-utility enterprise. Prior to that he was the president and CEO of PECO Energy, one of the nation’s most profitable and highest-performing utility companies.
O’Brien has served on numerous boards, including tenures as the chair of the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia, the Electric Power Research Institute, and the Pennsylvania Business Roundtable. He also served as a director at the Franklin Institute. He currently serves on the board of Independence Health Group.