CSU's President's Medal is the university's highest, most prestigious non-academic recognition. This year, we honor Pat Pastore for his civic leadership, philanthropy and service to CSU and the community.
Patrick M. Pastore is executive vice president and regional president of PNC Bank, Cleveland.
Pastore, a veteran of PNC for over 30 years, began his career in Pittsburgh in 1989 and spent six years primarily in the corporate finance group of PNC Capital Markets. He then served as a vice president in the investment banking group of Parker/Hunter Inc. and as a relationship manager in ABN AMRO Bank’s corporate banking group, covering multinational clients in the Midwest.
He joined National City in 2000 and was named the head of Corporate Banking for Cleveland in 2005. In 2007 Pastore became a regional manager, leading the bank’s coverage of corporate finance clients in Northern Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Since 2009, he served as Corporate Banking market leader for Northern Ohio, where he led a team of Corporate Finance and Middle Market bankers serving business clients in Cleveland, Akron, Canton and Youngstown. He was named to his current role in January 2019. In this role, Pastore is responsible for leading the execution of PNC's business strategy in the Cleveland market.
Pastore is active in the Cleveland community. He is the current chair of the Cuyahoga Community College Foundation. He is on the boards of Greater Cleveland Partnership, serving on the Executive and Innovation & Growth committees; Destination Cleveland, serving as co-vice chair, and Playhouse Square Foundation. In addition, he serves on The Cleveland Foundation’s Bank Trustee committee and is a member of the Leadership Cleveland Class of 2011. Pastore served as a co-chair for the United Way of Greater Cleveland’s annual campaign in 2013 and for the Greater Cleveland Food Bank’s Harvest for Hunger campaigns in 2023 and 2024. Previously, he served on the boards of University Circle Inc., Unify Labs, JumpStart Inc., the United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Cleveland, the Salvation Army of Greater Cleveland, and the United Way of Greater Cleveland.
Pastore holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from Miami University of Ohio and earned his MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.
Pictured above: Pat Pastore