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Darcel Heist Steber

Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, Business Banking & Commercial Banking

Darcel Heist Steber is senior vice president and chief marketing officer for business banking and commercial banking at PNC. In her role she is responsible for overseeing all marketing, advertising and communications functions, across all distribution channels in PNC’s 15-state and the District of Columbia footprint, for businesses with annual sales of up to $30 million.Steber joined Marine Bank, which was later acquired by PNC in 1989. She has held positions within the bank’s northwest Pennsylvania market as director of marketing and senior vice president, consumer bank sales manager. In 1997 she was promoted to PNC’s corporate staff as manager of consumer sales management, and in 2002 she joined Business Banking, serving in both sales and marketing capacities.Steber graduated summa cum laude from Mercyhurst College in Erie, PA with a BA degree in English and communications education. She is a graduate of the Bank Marketing Association’s Graduate School of Bank Marketing and Strategic Planning at the University of Athens Georgia, School of Bank Marketing at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the Pennsylvania Bankers Association’s School of Banking at Bucknell University.