2023 Hall of Fame Inductees

Michael Cardone Jr.

Co-founded CARDONE Industries in 1970 with his late father, Michael Cardone, Sr.
Retired as President & CEO in 2012 and remained chairman until 2019, when the company was sold to Brookfield Asset Management.
Under Michael’s leadership, CARDONE became the largest privately held remanufacturer of automotive aftermarket parts in the world, with more than $1 billion in revenue and close to 6,000 employees headquartered in Northeast Philadelphia, with locations in Mexico, Canada, and Europe.

Della Clark

Has served as President & CEO of The Enterprise Center since 1992, where she brings to life her vision for building an ecosystem of support for minority entrepreneurship.
Since its founding, TEC has become an organization at the forefront of cultivating and investing in minority entrepreneurs to accelerate the capacity of minority business enterprises to compete through business education, access to capital, management support, and connections.
Under Ms. Clark’s leadership, businesses have obtained more than $870 million in contracts, $209 million in financing, and created 3,221 jobs through the PA Minority Business Development Center. Minority- and women-owned businesses have secured more than $7 million in loans to start, grow, and succeed through The Enterprise Center Capital Corporation

Bill Marvin

Fintech visionary, entrepreneur, thought leader and operator with three decades of experience partnering and operating in the financial services industry.
Co-Founder and former CEO of InstaMed, a healthcare payments platform and network which Bill sold in 2019 to JPMorgan Chase. He successfully led the integration of InstaMed across multiple lines of business at JP MorganChase, and in 2020 he assumed responsibility for healthcare payments across the firm.
Bill previously founded CareWide (now a part of Allscripts after three acquisitions), which developed Microsoft-based software for submitting electronic claims and managing healthcare provider offices.

Michael Ruggieri

Current Board Chair and former CEO of Comar, LLC, a family business that Michael transitioned from a family-owned business to a PE-backed organization.
Over his time in different executive-level roles at Comar, Michael enabled close to 20x equity value.
Among his accomplishments, he led the turnaround of Comar’s glass division (and exited it), grew top-line annual revenues from $50 million to close to $300 million, and completed 10 multimillion-dollar acquisitions.
Active in Private Equity for much of his career, Michael has been an owner and an operator and holds a significant part of his net worth in PE and private businesses, diversified across approximately 40 different funds/businesses.