Janine Marone began her career in the early 1980s as a management trainee with Household Finance and went on to play an instrumental role in the growth of MBNA into a leading credit card institution. Over the course of her distinguished 25-year career in financial services, she held numerous executive leadership positions, including Vice President of Marketing (1987), CEO of MBNA Europe (1997), President of the Consumer Services Division (1999), and Vice Chairwoman of Consumer Marketing and Telesales (2002). She concluded her corporate career as Group Executive of New Brands and Markets in 2006 following MBNA’s acquisition by Bank of America, at which time she entered early retirement.

Since then, Janine has devoted her leadership experience, strategic insight, and entrepreneurial spirit to advancing the Culture of Life and serving the Church through evangelization and ministry. She brings these skills to Chesterton Academy of St. Padre Pio as the Board Chair.

For ten years, she founded and directed Luncheons for Life, a monthly grassroots networking initiative that united individuals and organizations dedicated to abortion prevention, intervention, and healing. She also founded and currently chairs the board of Support After Abortion, a nonprofit organization committed to fostering compassion, encouraging collaboration, and promoting healing for those impacted by abortion.

Janine has served on the finance committee at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church and as an advisory board member for Our Lady of Perpetual Help Retreat Center. She is an active member of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and a longtime member of the Legion of Mary, where she served as president for three years. In addition, she serves as a lector and leads the Pro-Life Rosary at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church.

Deeply committed to the Catholic faith, Janine took four years of theological classes through the Institute for Catholic Studies in the Diocese of Venice. She and her husband, Steve, have been residents of the Venice area for the past 15 years.

Janine has personally come to appreciate how essential it is for truth to be treated as an objective of education the way Chesterton Academy treats it. At the Academy, she sees how every subject illuminates the others because all truth is connected in the person of Jesus Christ. She has witnessed how students are formed to think critically, recognize logical fallacies, and articulate truth with both clarity and grace. To her, a Chesterton education is not merely a pathway to college or career success, but a journey that nurtures the soul. That is why she is doing her part to advance the mission of Chesterton Academy of St. Padre Pio.