| Joan Carter | |
| Birth Name: | Joan Pauline Carter |
| Birth Date: | July 2, 1943 |
| Birth Place: | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Alma Mater: | College of Wooster |
| Occupation: | President of UM Holdings Ltd |
| Boards: | FreedomWorks Philly Pops Union League of Philadelphia Legacy Foundation Foundation for Individual Liberty College of Wooster Emeritus |
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.
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]
Carter serves as chairman of the board of the Legacy Foundation formerly the Abraham Lincoln Foundation[11] and FreedomWorks.[12] She currently serves on the board of Philly Pops, The Foundation for Individual Liberty [13] and as trustee emeritus for the College of Wooster.[14] Additionally Carter served on the board of Lourdes Health System.,[15] the Reason Foundation.[16] Carter served as director for the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia from 1994 to 2001 and as its chair from 1998 to 2001. She was a director for Carr America (formerly NYSE: CRE) from 2003 to 2006 when Carr was sold to the 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.
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.