J. WILLIAM MILLS, III
REGIONAL PRESIDENT, PNC BANK
J. Willliam Mills, III, is president of the Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey region of PNC Bank, a member of The PNC Financial Services Group.
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PNC is one of the largest diversified financial services companies in the United States, and Mills, a 36-year financial services veteran, oversees PNC’s largest region, which includes 170 branches and offices and nearly 7,000 employees.
Mills joined Provident National Bank (a PNC predecessor) in 1989 as bank treasurer and president of the PNC Funding Corp. He later became senior vice president and managing director of Fixed-Income Investments for PNC Investment Management and Research. Mills was promoted to executive vice president in 1993 in charge of Capital Markets and the bank’s Asset Liability Committee. He was most recently executive vice president in charge of PNC Advisors Wealth Management Division in Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey. Mills started his career as a trader and vice president at Merrill Lynch Government Securities Inc. in New York City and moved to Industrial Valley Bank as senior vice president and treasurer. In 1986, Mills was named managing director of the Capital Markets Division at CoreStates Financial Corporation.
Mills is active in the Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey communities, serving on the board of directors of Independence Blue Cross and Temple University, as well as on the executive committee of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce Board, chairman of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s corporate executive board, the City of Philadelphia’s Children’s Commission, Temple University Health System Board of Overseers, the Gesu School, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Executive Committee, the Thomas Shelton Harrison Foundation, and the Police Athletic League Emeritus.
He holds a master’s in economics from Niagara University and a bachelor’s in mathematics from Ohio State University, and is a graduate of the University of Illinois School of Bank Investments.
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