OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Our Board of Directors
2024-2025
Officers
Pete Mendes
LP XXIV
Principal
Mendes Consulting LLC
Chair
Kirsten Rydstrom
LP XXI
Deputy General Counsel, Intellectual Property & Patent Litigation
PNC Bank
Vice Chair
David Heaton
LP XXVII
President & CEO
The Buncher Company
Treasurer
Quynh McGuire
LP XXXIV
Vice President, Investor Relations
Koppers Inc.
Secretary
Melissa Anderson
LP XXV
EVP, Chief Risk, Audit & Compliance Officer
Highmark Health
Cecelia Cagni
LP XXXV
Director of Corporate Communications
Pittsburgh Steelers
David DeJong
LP XXX
Professor of Economics
University of Pittsburgh
Heather Doyle-Conley
LP XXXV
VP, Customer Operations
Essential Utilities
Jason Hazlewood
LP XXXIV, YALP V
Managing Partner, Pittsburgh Office & Partner, Global Commercial Disputes Group
Reed Smith
Delvina Morrow
LDI XXV, YALP V
Vice President of Philanthropy & Social Impact
Little League International
Kimberly Orth
LP XXX
President, UPMC Commercial Products
UPMC Health Plan
Evan Rosenberg
LDI VIII, YALP VI
Market President & Publisher
Pittsburgh Business Times
Thomas Ryan
LP XXXVIII
Managing Partner, Pittsburgh Office
K&L Gates
Stephanie Sciullo
YALP IV
President, Americas
MSA Safety
Art Stroyd, Jr.
LP VIII – BOARD MEMBER EMERITUS
Partner
Del Sole Cavanaugh Stroyd LLC
Randy Vulakovich
LDI XV, YALP I
Senior Principal, Government Relations
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
Angela Wheland
LP XXXII, YALP III
VP, Global Communications
FedEx Services
Pamela Wilkins
Senior Vice President for Legal Affairs & General Counsel
Duquesne University
Leadership OnBoard
Ben Dwulit
CLCV XI
BKD Holdings
Clairissa Stitt
CLCV XI
Vice President, Employment Relations Manager
PNC Bank
Ex- Officios
Jenn Beer
LDI XVII, YALP IV
President & CEO
Leadership Pittsburgh Inc.
Michael Zanic
Partner
K&L Gates
Kathy Humphrey
LP XXIII
President
Carlow University
Dolly Ellenberg
LP VII
Retired Special Assistant to the Board of Trustees for Planning
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
James Balouris
LP XXV
Executive Vice President, Southwestern PA Market Manager
PNC Financial Services Group Inc.
Robert C. Buzzelli
LP XXIII
Senior Managing Director & Shareholder
Terranova Capital, Apollo III, LLC
Chris W. Brussalis
LP XIII
President
Point Park University
The late Linda Dickerson
LP IV
Schuyler Foerster
LP XV
Brent Scowcroft Professor of National Security Studies
United States Air Force Academy
B.J. Leber
LP IX
President
Adagio Health
Robert Smith
President Emeritus
Slippery Rock University
Sandra Solomon
LP XI
President
Sandra Solomon Associates Inc.
John K. Thornburgh
LP IX
VP & Shareholder
Witt/Kiefer Executive Search