Rosemary Basile King (Ro) has more than 25 years’ experience in strategic marketing using big data, initially in financial services as Senior Vice President with Signet Bank and across a broad range of industries as a founding partner of Quaero. After selling Quaero in 2009, Ro taught seminars with Global Customer Experience Management. She is now an active angel investor and start-up advisor.

Ro chairs the Board of Trustees of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, America’s first museum and art school, after serving as Vice Chair and on the Nominating & Governance and Development Committees. Ro is also a Trustee of the World Monuments Fund, an international non-profit safeguarding irreplaceable heritage, where she chairs the Marketing Committee and serves on the Finance and Audit Committees. Ro served as Board Chair of the Global Heritage Fund, prior to its merger with WMF. A former trustee of the Menokin Foundation in Virginia, which seeks to re-imagine the ruins of a historic American home, Ro continues to serve as an advisor.

In addition to cultural heritage and fine arts, Ro supports efforts to mentor students who are the first in their family to attend college. She has served as vice-chair and communications chair for First-Generation Harvard Alumni, and she advises Collective Success Network, a Philadelphia-based non-profit that provides support and resources to low-income, first-generation college students, preparing them to enter professional career paths.

Ro turned her energy to non-profits while living in Indonesia as chairman of the Indonesian Heritage Society in Jakarta and as an advisor to SOKOLA and board member of the Sampoerna Foundation, which both support educational initiatives in Indonesia. While living and working in Indonesia, Hong Kong, China, Portugal, Switzerland and the US, Ro has edited more than a dozen books, written numerous articles about vanishing ethnic groups, and produced photography exhibitions on Balinese and Papuan rituals.

She holds an AB in History from Harvard and an MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia, where she served as chair of the Dean’s Global Advisory Council and then, on the Board of Trustees. In 2013, Ro received both the Diplôme de Sommellerie en vin and Diplôme de Juré Expert from L’Ecole d’Ingénieurs de Changins, Switzerland. After living abroad for almost twenty years, Ro recently returned to Philadelphia with her husband, Martin, retired CFO of Philip Morris International, and a fellow graduate of Harvard and Darden.