Mary W. Murrin returns home to Pittsburgh to lead Rivers of Steel following seven years with Chevron, U.S.A. in Houston, Texas. Her career closely follows Western Pennsylvania’s economic changes following the decline of the steel and manufacturing industries.
After graduating from Brown University, she started her career with an Alcoa internship in public relations and then joined Westinghouse Electric Corporation as communications advisor supporting nuclear energy, radioactive waste remediation, and Department of Defense contracts. Following the divestiture of Westinghouse, she spent nearly 20 years leading communications, investor relations, and business development for five technology startups out of Carnegie Mellon University developing internet search, telecom, and online education software, and acquired by Lycos, Nokia, and Apollo Education Group.
At the height of the region’s Marcellus and Utica shale exploration and production, Ms. Murrin joined Chevron as the company’s first social investment lead in the Appalachia Mountain operations. Along with the Claude Worthington Benedum and Grable Foundations, the Allegheny Conference, and RAND, she helped to establish the Appalachia Partnership Initiative focused on growing a skilled energy and manufacturing workforce in Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
In 2018, Ms. Murrin relocated to Houston with Chevron to lead social investment in Harris County, Texas. She then joined Chevron’s Technical Center as a corporate affairs advisor, first supporting the Technology Ventures investment group and then leading communications for Chevron’s first Chief Digital Officer.
Ms. Murrin is an active community advocate. While in Pittsburgh, she was an elected Allegheny County Democratic Committeewoman and served on the board of trustees of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern Pennsylvania, and as President of the Board of Quantum Theatre. While in Houston, she was on the boards of the Hermann Park Conservancy, Houston Community College Foundation, and is currently on the board of the National Girls Collaborative Project based in Seattle.
Ms. Murrin is a proud multi-generational Western Pennsylvanian. Her father was from Butler County and descended from an Irish immigrant who fought in the Revolutionary War for the colony of New Jersey. Her mother was from Westmoreland County where her father, an Italian immigrant, was a coal miner and worked in an Alcoa packaging plant in New Kensington. Ms. Murrin was raised in Point Breeze and attended Taylor Allderdice High School. She has three sons, also raised in Point Breeze, who attended Central Catholic High School.
Contact Mary at 412.464.4020 ext. 263 or mmurrin@riversofsteel.com.
