Barbara Cohen

Professional Bio

Barbara Cohen is the retired founder and president of Kannon Consulting, a marketing and strategy firm that advised organizations facing market disruption. She previously was a partner at Booz Allen Hamilton and held marketing roles at Procter & Gamble. Cohen has served on the advisory task force for the business minor in the College of the Liberal Arts and on the Women in Leadership panel. With her husband, Robert Chirinko, she created the Cohen-Schwartz Renaissance Fund, a Trustee Scholarship, and a Paterno Fellows Program scholarship, and named the fund for the college's Office of Employer Engagement. She was named a Penn State Alumni Fellow in 2016 and lives in Chicago.