James E. Rohr is chairman and chief executive officer of The PNC Financial Services Group, one of the largest diversified financial services companies in the United States.
Rohr joined the company through its Management Development Program in 1972. He proceeded through various marketing and management responsibilities in several Corporate Banking areas, including lending, treasury management services and merchant banking. He was elected a vice chairman of PNC in 1989, named a director in 1990, elected as president in 1992 and named chief operating officer in 1998. Rohr was named chief executive officer in May 2000 and chairman in May 2001.
Rohr is a director of Allegheny Technologies Incorporated, Equitable Resources, Inc. and RAND Board of Trustees. He is a past chairman of the Pennsylvania Business Roundtable and is involved with other industry groups, including the International Monetary Conference and The Financial Services Roundtable. He is also a director and former chairman of BITS, the technology group for The Financial Services Roundtable.
In addition, Rohr serves on a number of civic, cultural and educational organizations. He is chairman of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development and The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. He is a board member and former chairman of the Greater Pittsburgh Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He is a director of Carnegie Mellon University and is a member of the Notre Dame's College of Business Advisory Council. In addition, he is a former director of United Way of Allegheny County, where he chaired the 1999 general fund-raising campaign that raised $39.1 million. In October 2006, Rohr received the Woodward Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship.
Rohr earned his bachelor of arts degree in 1970 from the University of Notre Dame and his master's in business administration from Ohio State University in 1972. |