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Regional Investors Council 2021 REGIONAL INVESTORS COUNCIL #1 Cochran Inc. Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation Fairmont Pittsburgh II-VI Incorporated Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh Familylinks AAA East Central CIBC Bank USA Farmers National Bank Accenture Citizens Bank of PA / NY / NJ / DE Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh Adagio Health, Inc. Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation Pittsburgh Branch AHRCO Coghill Investment Strategies, LLC Federated Hermes Inc. Alcoa Corporation Cohen & Co First Commonwealth Bank Allegheny College Colcom Foundation First National Bank of Pennsylvania Allegheny County Airport Authority Colliers International FirstEnergy Corporation Allegheny Health Network Columbia Gas FirstEnergy Foundation Alschuler Communications Comcast Ford Business Machines, Inc. American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. Commonwealth Charter Academy Fragasso Financial Advisors AmeriHealth Caritas Community College of Allegheny County Frost Brown Tood LLC Aquatech International Corporation Community College of Beaver County GAI Consultants, Inc. Arch Street Management, LLC Compunetix, Inc. Gateway Financial Group, Inc. Argo AI Concurrent Technologies Corporation Gateway Health Plan ATI Constructors Association of Giant Eagle, Inc. Aurora Innovation Western Pennsylvania Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania Aviation Facilities Company Management, LLC (AFCO) Covestro LLC Google Pittsburgh Babst, Calland, Clements and Zomnir, P.C. Cowden Associates, Inc. Grant Street Associates, Inc. Bank of America Merrill Lynch Cozen O’Connor Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council BCG Crown Castle Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank BDO USA, LLP Deloitte LLP Green Building Alliance Beaver Valley Slag, Inc. Denny Civic Solutions H.J. Heinz Company Foundation BHE GT&S Dentons Cohen & Grigsby, P.C. HarbisonWalker International BKD, LLP Desmone Architects HDR, Inc. BNY Mellon DICK’S Sporting Goods Healthcare Council of Western Pennsylvania BNY Mellon Foundation Dickie McCamey & Chilcote, P.C. Hefren-Tillotson, Inc. Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Dinsmore & Shohl LLP Henderson Brothers, Inc. Burns & Scalo Real Estate Services, Inc. Dollar Bank, FSB Herbert, Rowland & Grubic, Inc. Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation Door Dash Heritage Valley Health System Calgon Carbon Corporation Duane Morris LLP Highmark Health California University of Pennsylvania Duolingo Hillman Family Foundations Callay Capital LLC Duquesne Club Hoffmann Murtaugh CAMPOS Duquesne Light Company Howard Hanna Real Estate Services Carey Group Duquesne University HUB International Carlow University Eat’n Park Hospitality Group, Inc. Hunter Associates Carmeuse Lime & Stone Eaton Independence Excavating, Inc. Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Edge Case Research, Inc. Iron Mountain Carnegie Mellon University Elliott Group JENDOCO Construction and Real Estate Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh Ellwood Group, Inc. Jennmar Corporation Catalyst Connection Enterprise Bank Jewish Healthcare Foundation CBRE EQT Corporation JLL CDI Printing Services, Inc. Ernst & Young LLP JMI Sports Center for Employment Opportunities Essential Utilities Jones Day Pittsburgh CGI Evoqua Water Technologies, LLC JJP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. Chatham University Expedient K&L Gates LLP 2021 REGIONAL INVESTORS COUNCIL Kennametal Inc. Penn State Greater Allegheny Schmidt Market Research, Inc. KeyBank Penn State New Kensington Schneider Downs & Company, Inc. Koppers Inc. Pennsylvania American Water Seegrid Corporation KPMG LLP Pieper O’Brien Herr Architects Seneca Resources Company, LLC L. B. Foster Company Pipitone Group Seton Hill University La Roche University PITT OHIO Shell Chemicals Appalachia Lamar Advertising Company - Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Slippery Rock University LANXESS Corporation Pittsburgh Business Group on Health Snavely Warwick Larson Design Group Pittsburgh Business Times Solenture, LLC Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center Pittsburgh Community StarKist Co. Lockton Companies, Inc. Broadcasting Corporation System One Holdings, LLC Magee-Womens Research Institute Pittsburgh Cultural Trust The Benter Foundation & Foundation Pittsburgh Magazine The Buhl Foundation Magarac Ventures Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy The Buncher Company Maher Duessel Pittsburgh Penguins The Coury Firm Malady & Wooten, Inc. Pittsburgh Pirates The Elmhurst Group Manchester Bidwell Corporation Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Forbes Funds Marcellus Shale Coalition Pittsburgh Quarterly The Gateway Engineers, Inc. Mascaro Construction Company, L.P. Pittsburgh Steelers The Grable Foundation Massaro Construction Group, Inc. Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra The Hawthorne Group Master Builders’ Association of Pittsburgh Technical College The Heinz Endowments Western Pennsylvania, Inc. Pittsburgh Technology Council The Huntington National Bank Matthews International Pittsburgh Transportation Group The Kraft Heinz Company McKamish Inc. Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority The Pittsburgh Foundation McKinsey & Company PJ Dick, Incorporated The Pittsburgh Promise Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP Point Park University The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. Michael Baker International Port of Pittsburgh Commission The Reschini Group Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP Thermo Fisher Scientific Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Postindustrial Media TiER1 Performance Solutions MSA, The Safety Company PPG TRC Companies, Inc. Mt. Lebanon Office Equipment Co., Inc. Premier Medical Associates TriState Capital Bank NACD Three Rivers Chapter Pressley Ridge Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP National Aviary PwC Turner Construction Company Newmark Knight Frank Quest Diagnostics Incorporated Uber NEXTpittsburgh Reed Smith LLP United States Steel Corporation Norfolk Southern Corporation Regency Global Transportation Group, Ltd. UnitedHealthcare North River Pittsburgh I, LLC Regional Learning Alliance University of Pittsburgh NOVA Chemicals Corporation Richard King Mellon Foundation UPMC NRG Energy, Inc. Robert Bosch LLC UPMC Health Plan Oriden Robert Morris University Value Properties Oxford Development Company Russell Standard Corporation Vector Security, Inc. Partner4Work Rye Development, LLC Verizon - Pennsylvania PEAK Technical Staffing USA S&T Bank Vibrant Pittsburgh Penn State Beaver Sargent Electric Company VisitPittsburgh Penn State Center Pittsburgh Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr, LLP Wabtec Corporation 2021 REGIONAL INVESTORS COUNCIL Wadhwani Impact Trust WESCO International, Inc. WPXI-TV Waldron Private Wealth Westinghouse Electric Company WQED Multimedia Washington & Jefferson College Westminster College WTAE-TV/Channel 4 Waynesburg University Whirl Magazine YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh WesBanco, Inc. WordWrite Communications LLC.
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