Who We Are

Serves as current board president.

As a team lead for jakrantz & associates, Jeff Krantz is engaged as a management advisor to health care providers; his primary areas of interest include management, operations, strategy, staff development, and training.

Jeff has held several key management positions in the health/human services including that of chief executive officer, corporate planning officer, chief operating officer, national board member, and project manager. 

Jeff currently serves as adjunct faculty with University of Pittsburgh, graduate school of public health, department of health policy & administration.

Jeff holds a master’s degree in health administration from the University of Pittsburgh and a master’s degree in adult education from Penn State University. Jeff is certified as lean six sigma black belt (LSSBB). In the medical arena, he continues to monitor advances in health care with special focus on medical ethics, technology, ai applications, and lean.

Karen Grunebach is the Director, Production Services for the IT Asset Management Software Asset Management (SAM) team. Her current role consists of identifying gaps and implementing standard processes to acquire, transfer, dispose and manage software. Together with her team these processes have produced a cost avoidance exceeding $135M. She accomplishes this by building bridges to key stakeholders and partnering with them to close gaps in software processes. Karen shepherds a software 101 education program to teach the basics of software licensing. She believes educating one’s stakeholders is key to establishing a solid SAM program. Karen participates in the development and publication of ITAM policies, standards, and procedures. She provides guidance, mentorship, and leadership to her team of seven direct reports.

Her career started as a developer until she got a taste of IT infrastructure during one of her software projects. From then on, she spent the majority of her career running IT infrastructure projects in the manufacturing space. An opportunity was presented to leave her technical career to develop a Software Asset Management program for the manufacturing company. She accepted the challenge even though she knew she was leaving behind a much loved career path. With a quick taste of Software Asset Management Karen knew she made the right decision. This switch allows her to marry her technical knowledge with software contracts and process management. It was a perfect combo that never made Karen look back. She has enjoyed many years of Software Asset Management responsibilities as there is always something new and interesting to challenge her.

Karen earned a BS in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh, a MS in Information Science concentrating in Telecommunications from the University of Pittsburgh and an MBA from Duquesne University. Karen’s favorite volunteer project was chairing the annual Salvation Army toy drive where she collected over 2600 toys each year for eighteen consecutive years. She is an avid outdoor person who enjoys traveling, biking, skiing, and kayaking. Lately her time is spent training her dog who although he is now four still acts like a puppy.

Mark is currently with BNY Mellon overseeing medium to large IT Mainframe Infrastructure projects and has more than 35 years of IT experience.

Most recently he added IT Mainframe Infrastructure Project Management to his IT portfolio.

Most of his career was spent in Pittsburgh at US Steel.

Mark has worked in the chemicals, metals, health care and banking/financial industries. He was a programmer up to application manager, business/demand manager and IT project manager.

He has a BS degree in Computer Science from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After graduation he worked at DuPont in Wilmington, Delaware.

He is the current Treasurer of Priority2Work.

Mark has been an active volunteer for Priority2Work since completing the P2W Career Marketing Workshop (CMW) and landing his current position.

Leslie has spent the bulk of her career as a Marketing/Product Manager in industries as diverse as Data Analytics, Workplace Safety, Chemicals/Coatings and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG).  Responsible for the P&L of assigned product categories, she has planned and executed the business strategy for a variety of top-rated consumer brands.

Her passion for promoting products and causes through traditional and digital content creation has led her to currently support small business clients and non-profit agencies.  Leslie joined the P2W Board in 2023 to pass on job search skills and knowledge she gained as a client over a decade ago.  She also is leading the charge to expand P2W awareness, volunteer support and client participation.

Leslie currently serves on several other boards, including AMA Pittsburgh.  She earned an IMBA from Baldwin Wallace University and BBA in Marketing from Kent State University.  She supplemented her digital marketing skills through LinkedIn and HubSpot Academy certifications. 

Ryan Kelley brings a diverse technical background spanning industries such as retail, geospatial technology, and autonomous vehicle operations. He specializes in bridging the gap between technical engineering teams and business stakeholders to solve complex business problems. Ryan brings a strong focus on user adoption and customer experience, leveraging data-driven insights from platforms such as Tableau and Google Cloud ML/AI to identify production improvement opportunities.

Ryan currently holds the position of Production Support Analyst at American Eagle Outfitters (AEO). Before joining AEO, Ryan flew drones and delivered geospatial data products for both civil and governmental engineering clients at T3 Global Strategies and managed software testing and driving in self-driving vehicles for Uber ATG.

In addition to his support of P2W, you can find him teaching his 2 Girl Scout troops about outdoor skills, community involvement, and their next badge; or virtually anywhere he can get comfortable, immersed in creativity, engineering his latest ideas, and building with his youngest 2 children using Lego.

He holds 2 B.A.s from Case Western Reserve University and a variety of technical certifications and clearances.