Donald DiCarlo
Don serves as president of Wilmington Trust Emerald Family Office & Advisory®, which provides a
robust platform of strategic advisory services and solutions for successful executives, entrepreneurs,
and their families. The Emerald team guides clients in the creation, implementation, and execution
of complex financial, estate, and succession plans.
A respected thought leader, Don is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
(ACTEC), a highly selective group of peer-elected trust and estate attorneys in the U.S. and abroad.
He has been an adjunct professor of law for close to 20 years and lectures frequently at
industry-leading conferences, including the Heckerling Institute of Estate Planning.
Don's past experience includes the private practice of law and active-duty service as Judge Advocate
in the United States Army. He earned his undergraduate degree from Villanova University and his
law degree from New England Law, Boston. He holds a master of laws degree in taxation from
Temple University Beasley School of Law and a master of arts degree in theology from St. Charles
Borromeo Seminary.
Don serves on the board of directors of Philly VIP, a nonprofit legal assistance program. He also
serves his community as an ordained deacon in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
Dr. Emily Hancin
Dr. Emily Hancin was born and raised in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pennsylvania, where she received her Master of Science in Chemistry as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry and Religious Studies. She completed her medical studies and graduated Alpha Omega Alpha from the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. She is currently a first year general surgery resident at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, NJ and plans to pursue a career in trauma surgery.
William Kilmon
William M. Klimon is senior counsel at Compass Legal Group in Washington,
D.C., where he advises nonprofit organizations on tax, governance, and
transactional matters. Prior to helping found Compass in 2021, for more than 20
years, Mr. Klimon was a member of the tax-exempt-organizations group at the
Washington, D.C. law firm Caplin & Drysdale. He also chaired the American Bar
Association’s Nonprofit Organizations Committee (2018-20). Mr. Klimon served
in the U.S. Army from 1987-90, during which time he was assigned to the U.S.
Army Field Station in Berlin. Later, he was a Claude R. Lambe Fellow and a
Philip Merrill Fellow in the history department of the graduate school at Cornell
University. He has degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (B.A. in history),
the University of Maryland School of Law (J.D. with honor), and the Georgetown
University Law Center (LL.M. in Taxation). He serves on the boards of Collegium
Institute at the University of Pennsylvania and the National Federation for
Catholic Youth Ministry and on the library and fellowship committee of the
National Sporting Library & Museum in Middleburg, Virginia. He is a parishioner
of Holy Transfiguration Melkite Greek Catholic Church in McLean, Virginia.
Deacon Christopher Roberts
Deacon Roberts lives in Chestnut Hill with his wife Hannah and their four daughters. He is chairman of the board and the president of Martin Saints Classical High School. He is a permanent deacon at Our Mother of Consolation parish.
Chris is a convert who grew up in Baltimore. Chris and Hannah met when they were both theology students at Oxford University in England. Hannah is from a small village in North Yorkshire, England. Chris and Hannah were married at Ampleforth Abbey, a Benedictine school and monastery also in Yorkshire. As an adult, Hannah worked for poor churches in the East End of London to help them restore their buildings. More recently, Hannah has helped teach the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, as well as homeschooling the Roberts daughters. She and her friend Betsy Puntel wrote a book together, a child’s book of the mass, in order to help both adults and children understand the liturgy more deeply.
The Roberts family moved to Philadelphia in 2005 so that Chris could teach in the Ethics Program at Villanova University. Chris has also worked for the Collegium Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. Pope Francis awarded him the Benemerenti Medal for being the primary writer and editor of Love is Our Mission: the family fully alive, which was the official catechism for the 2015 World Meeting of Families.
Chris also wrote a book called Creation and Covenant: the significance of sexual difference in the moral theology of marriage. Earlier in his career, he was a reporter for the PBS television program Religion and Ethics Newsweekly.
Chris is a graduate of Yale (BA, Religious Studies and Environmental Studies), Oxford (MPhil, Christian Ethics) and the University of London (PhD, Theology). He also received a further MA in theology from Philadelphia's St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in 2017.