About the award
The Musser Award for Excellence in Leadership honors outstanding achievement and service by a distinguished member of the business community.
It is the highest honor Temple University’s Fox School affords and recognizes the ideal of leadership as exceptional individual accomplishments that also benefit the larger community.
It promotes the ethic, personified by the Award’s inaugural recipient Warren V. (Pete) Musser, that exceptional achievement by those seeking business success and exceptional effort on behalf of the community are compatible, mutually supportive goals.
As founder of Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. in 1953 and as its leader for nearly four decades, he formed numerous technology-oriented companies that helped create the Greater Philadelphia region’s reputation for technological innovation.
He has supported and led many community and charitable causes, including the Safeguard Scientifics Center for Economic Education at Temple. The Center brings business, economic and entrepreneurial education to K-12 teachers and students throughout the region and the state.