Joan Carter

Joan Carter
Joan Carter
	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Alma mater	College of Wooster
Occupation	President of UM Holdings Ltd
Board member of	FreedomWorks; Philly Pops; Union League of Philadelphia Legacy Foundation; Foundation for Individual Liberty; College of Wooster Emeritus
Spouse	John Aglialoro (m. 1979)

Joan Carter (born July 2, 1943 in

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American businessperson and philanthropist. She is the President of UM Holdings Ltd.^[1] which she co-founded with John Aglialoro. Since 1973, UM Holdings has owned and operated a variety of business, primarily in the health and fitness industries. UM Holdings was the owner of Cybex International

and EHE International., both of which were sold in 2016.

Education and achievements

She is a graduate of The College of Wooster, and was awarded the College's 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award.^[2] In 2010, Carter was elected President of The Union League of Philadelphia, the first woman^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] to hold that position in the League's 150 year history. She was also awarded the Temple University 2011 Musser Award,^[7] the Adam Smith Award^[8] in 2012 by Economics Pennsylvania, the IWF Women Who Make a Difference Award in 2018,^[9] and 2018 Distinguished Citizen Award from the Valley Forge Freedoms Foundation.^[10]

Boards

Carter serves as chairman of the board of the Legacy Foundation formerly the Abraham Lincoln Foundation

Blackstone Group. She was vice chairman of the board of Cybex International from 1997 to 2016^[17] when Cybex was sold to Brunswick Corporation in 2016. She was a director from 2001 to 2019 for Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company^[18]

and chair of that board's marketing committee.

Personal life

Carter is married to John Aglialoro, producer of the Atlas Shrugged movie trilogy, on which Carter served as associate producer.^[19] She authored The History of the Atlas Shrugged Movie Trilogy ^[20] and co-authored Atlas Shrugged: The Novel, the Films, the Philosophy.^[21] She has two children, and two step-children, and eight grandchildren.

References

External links

Profile at UM Holdings
Joan Carter at
IMDb
[1] at BizJournals

[1] "Joan Carter Bio UM Holdings".

[2] Distinguished Alumni Award

[3] Union League Appointment

[4] Witness History | Philadelphia Inquirer

[5] Union League's Leading Lady | Philadelphia Style

[6] Women on the Move | Main Line Today

[7] Musser Award Video

[8] HBS Club of Philadelphia

[9] IWF Women Who Make a Difference 2018

[10] 2018 Distinguished Citizen Award - Valley Forge Freedoms Foundation

[11] Union League | Philadelphia Inquirer

[12] Joan Carter | FreedomWorks

[13] The Foundation for Individual Liberty

[14] The College of Wooster Trustees

[15] Lourdes Health System Trustees

[16] Reason Foundation

[17] Board List | Cybex International Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine

[18] Penn Mutual Board | Business Week

[19] Joan Carter biography | Atlas Shrugged

[20] The History of the Atlas Shrugged Movie Trilogy - Amazon Library

[21] Atlas Shrugged: The Novel, the Films, the Philosophy - Amazon Library

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