Alexandra Hendrickson serves as Executive Vice President in the firm’s Pittsburgh office. Until mid-2001, Ms. Hendrickson was an executive at PPG Industries, Inc. in Pittsburgh. As Director, OneSourceCoatings.com, she built and operated PPG Industries’ first and only e-commerce business. Ms. Hendrickson also held positions as PPG’s Director, Marketing and New Business Development, Automotive Coatings, in Troy, Michigan and Director, Marketing and Business Development, Industrial Coatings Europe in Paris, France where she was responsible for new business development and marketing for Industrial Coatings for all of Europe. Earlier, Ms. Hendrickson held senior executive posts in the Card Division of American Express Company in New York City. As Director, Airline Marketing, she managed American Express Card marketing relationships with airlines worldwide and met annual business volume and share goals for the $12 billion business. Ms. Hendrickson was also previously a commercial lending officer at Bankers Trust Company (now Deutsche Bank) in New York where she built relationships with Fortune 500 corporations, insurance companies and banks and managed a $600 million portfolio of outstanding loans. Ms Hendrickson has an MBA in Accounting and Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and a BA in Economics and History from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She speaks French, German and modest Hungarian. in Pittsburgh, Ms. Hendrickson is President, Wharton Club of Western Pennsylvania; Advisory Board Member at Powerlink, a Pennsylvania non-profit organization providing assistance to help women entrepreneurs grow their businesses; Member, British American Business Council, German American Business Circle, World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh, Association for Corporate Growth; and Development Committee, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.