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James E. Rohr , Chairman and Chief Executive Officer 

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. For his leadership of PNC, Rohr was named American Banker's "Banker of the Year" for 2007.

Rohr is a director of BlackRock, Inc., Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Allegheny Technologies Incorporated, EQT Corporation, Inc, RAND Board of Trustees and the International Monetary Conference. He is a past chairman of the Pennsylvania Business Roundtable and is involved with other industry groups, including 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 the immediate past 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 the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP), Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh's McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine and The Heinz Endowments. He is a member of the board of trustees for The University of Notre Dame and a member of Notre Dame's College of Business Advisory Council. In October 2006, Rohr received the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship. In May 2007, he received the Sesame Workshop Corporate Honoree Award and in May 2008 he received the Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER) Hero Award from the Heinz Family Philanthropies.

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.

Joseph C. Guyaux, President

Joseph C. Guyaux is president of The PNC Financial Services Group. In that role, he is head of Retail Banking, which includes leadership of PNC's consumer businesses, business banking and brokerage. In addition, the Residential Mortgage business reports to him.

Guyaux joined PNC in 1972 and, after holding several management positions, was named senior vice president and manager of Metropolitan Commercial Banking in Pittsburgh in 1989. In 1991, he was elected president of PNC's Northeast PA market, with primary responsibility for the market's retail business. Guyaux was elected executive vice president and retail market manager for the Pittsburgh market in 1993 and elected senior vice president and manager, PNC Private Bank, in 1995. In 1997, he was appointed deputy manager of the Consumer Banking business and later that year he was named chief executive officer of that business.

In that role, Guyaux instituted a successful customer-focused strategy that has resulted in increases in net income, customer and employee satisfaction, and extensive employee volunteerism in the eight states the bank serves. He became responsible for PNC's middle market, corporate finance, capital markets, asset-based lending, treasury management and leasing businesses in 2001 and 2002. When appointed president in 2002, Guyaux assumed responsibility for wealth management. In July 2005, Guyaux was named head of Retail Banking.

Guyaux is chairman of the board of directors for the Civic Light Opera and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, where he is a life trustee. In addition, serves on the boards of directors of DQE Holdings LLC, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Highmark, Inc., and Private Export Funding Corp. (PEFCO). He was elected an emeritus member of the board of directors of Duquesne University in October 2009.

A graduate of Brown University, Guyaux received his bachelor of science degree in 1972 and earned his master's in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh in 1984. He is also a graduate of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking.

Richard J. Johnson, Chief Financial Officer

Richard J. Johnson is chief financial officer for The PNC Financial Services Group. Johnson is responsible for managing the finance functions including the business chief financial officers, performance measurement, the controller function, tax, Sarbanes-Oxley, investor relations, and mergers and acquisitions.

Prior to joining PNC in 2003, Johnson was president and chief executive officer of JP Morgan Services in Delaware, a subsidiary of JP Morgan. Johnson held a number of management positions at JP Morgan, including European chief financial officer in London and global business markets chief financial officer in New York City. In addition, Johnson was an audit manager at Coopers and Lybrand. Prior to being named to his current position in July 2005, Johnson was director of finance for PNC.

Johnson earned a bachelor of science degree in accounting from Ithaca College in 1978.

William S. Demchak, Senior Vice Chairman

William S. Demchak is senior vice chairman for The PNC Financial Services Group. He is responsible for all of PNC's businesses, including Corporate & Institutional Banking, the Asset Management Group and Retail Banking. In addition, he is a director of BlackRock, Inc.

Demchak joined PNC in 2002 as chief financial officer. In July 2005, he was named head of PNC's Corporate & Institutional Banking, becoming responsible for PNC's middle market and large corporate businesses, as well as capital markets, real estate finance, equity management and leasing. Demchak, who also leads the company's asset and liability management function, was promoted to senior vice chairman in 2009 and to his current role as head of all businesses in August 2010.

Before joining PNC in 2002, he served as the global head of Structured Finance and Credit Portfolio for JP Morgan Chase. Demchak also held key leadership roles at JP Morgan prior to its merger with the Chase Manhattan Corporation in 2000. He was actively involved in developing JP Morgan's strategic agenda, and was a member of the company?s capital and credit risk committees.

Demchak is a member of The Financial Services Roundtable and serves on the Regulatory Management Committee. He is a board member and chairman of the Greater Pittsburgh Council of the Boy Scouts of America. In addition, he serves on the board of directors of the Extra Mile Education Foundation, the YMCA of Pittsburgh and the Blue Mountain Credit Alternatives Ltd.

Demchak received a bachelor of science degree from Allegheny College and earned an MBA with an emphasis in accounting from the University of Michigan.