Robert E FenzaRobert E. Fenza

Retired Chief Operating Officer, Liberty Property Trust


Robert Fenza was elected to the Board of Trustees effective July 2015 representing Business and Industry. He earned a B.Ph in Landscape Architecture and Real Estate in 1980 from Penn State and is a member of the University’s Society of Distinguished Alumni. In March 2015, he retired from his position as Chief Operating Officer of Liberty Property Trust, a national Real Estate Investment Trust.

Fenza led the College of Arts & Architecture’s For the Future Capital Campaign, and more recently serves as Vice Chair of the campaign A Greater Penn State for 21st Century Excellence. He was awarded the Alumni Fellow Award in 2004 and was honored in 2012 as the Fundraising Volunteer of the Year. Fenza chaired the Board of Trustees’ Finance, Business and Capital Planning Committee and chaired its Real Estate Task Force. He and his wife, Marcy, have four children and raise Texas Longhorns on their farm in the Brandywine Valley of Pennsylvania.