Benefactors
Jason & Julie Borrelli
Jason and Julie Borrelli are both graduates of Penn State, where they first met. Jason earned a degree in aerospace engineering and began his career with NASA in the Washington, DC, area. Meanwhile, Julie completed a degree in hotel, restaurant, and institutional management and joined Marriott International in Bethesda, Maryland. The couple later joined National Properties Inc., a real-estate investment, property management, and development business co-founded by Julie’s father, Jeff King. Jason worked in the property management and construction division, and Julie worked in marketing and human resources.
In 2006, Jason earned a master of business administration from Penn State Great Valley, with a focus in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial studies. Today, he is a managing director for property operations at EQT/Exeter, a private equity real estate investment firm focused on acquiring, developing, leasing and managing logistics/industrial, office, life science and multifamily properties. He is also chair of Smeal’s Real Estate Advisory Board and a member of Smeal’s Board of Visitors.
Julie Borrelli, the King family's Penn Medicine representative, has served on the Abramson Cancer Center Director's Leadership Council since 2019 and was appointed Chair in June 2024. Julie's other philanthropic and volunteer activities outside of the Lynch syndrome community consist of volunteering at her children's schools and athletic programs, as well as at the Talk School (a center for the education of children with autism and speech and language disorders). Julie and her husband Jason Borrelli were honored in 2024 as Penn State University Philanthropists of the Year.
Jeffrey & Cynthia King
Jeffery King was the Co-Founder and President of National Properties, Inc., a real estate investment, property management, and development business based in Malvern, PA. Jeff and his wife Cynthia, founded The Jeffery and Cynthia King Family Foundation, which supports education, community, economic development. Jeff, who was also alumnus of Pennsylvania State University, had a history of giving there to support education and human services, including the creation of new professorships in the Smeal College of Business, and programmatic endowments in the University Libraries and the College of Education. They also supported the construction of the Business Building, which houses the Smeal College of Business, located on the Penn State University Park campus.
Cynthia has served as a volunteer on the University Libraries Development Board and as a Presidential Counselor at Penn State. She was named Fundraising Volunteer of the Year in 2017. She has also served as a volunteer for her church, her daughters’ schools, and other nonprofits near her home in Malvern.
Jeffery King passed away on August 1, 2025, but his and his family’s legacy lives on through both the King Center for Lynch Syndrome and The Jeffery and Cynthia King Professorship in Lynch Syndrome Research, currently held by Dr. Bryson Katona.
