Nevins Promoted President of Philadelphia Industrial Development Corp.

PHILADELPHIA—The Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corp. has appointed current chief strategy and communications officer Anne Bovaird Nevins as the agency’s 11th president.

Nevins, who will be the first woman to serve in the position in the PIDC’s 60-year history, will take on the new post on Jan. 27 and will replace current PIDC president John Grady. Nevins appointment was announced on Wednesday by Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and Rob Wonderling, president and CEO of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce.

“During her 13-year tenure at PIDC, Anne Nevins successfully built the partnerships that deliver resources to diverse businesses, non-profits, and development projects,” said Mayor Kenney. “She brings focus and attention to connecting growth to the people and places in our city that need it the most.”

Nevins has served on the Mayor’s Refinery Advisory Group for the City of Philadelphia, co-managed Philadelphia’s Amazon HQ2 bid, and has created and led PIDC and ULI Philadelphia’s partnership advisory committee on the future of work and its impact on industrial and commercial land.

“The city’s recent job and population growth has created momentum and opportunity, but we recognize that too many people and communities are not yet benefiting,” Nevins said. “Our challenge is to accelerate and sustain economic growth and, at the same time, to ensure that the benefits of that growth, including job opportunities and wealth creation, are shared more broadly across our city.”

Prior to her current role, Nevins served as PIDC’s SVP for marketing and business development for six years where she led a team that transformed PIDC’s brand identity, developed new lending products, and generated 360 loans to small, diverse, and growing businesses that invested more than $117 million located in 94% of Philadelphia’s zip codes.