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 mirrors Western Pennsylvania’s economic evolution following the decline of the steel and manufacturing industries.
After graduating from Brown University, she started her career as a public affairs intern at Alcoa, and then joined Westinghouse Electric 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 startups out of Carnegie Mellon University developing internet search, telecom, and online education software.
At the height of the region’s Marcellus and Utica shale exploration and production in 2014, Ms. Murrin joined Chevron as the social investment lead in the company’s new Appalachia Mountain operations. Along with the Claude Worthington Benedum and Grable Foundations, the Allegheny Conference, and RAND, she helped 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 to lead Chevron’s social investment in Harris County, Texas, and then joined Chevron’s Technical Center as corporate affairs advisor to the Technology Ventures investment group, and Chevron’s first Chief Digital Officer.
Ms. Murrin is an active community advocate. She is a former elected Democratic Committeewoman for the 14th Ward Allegheny County and currently serves on the Board of Fred Rogers Productions and the Emeritus Board of Quantum Theatre. She previously held Board seats at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Houston Community College Foundation, the Hermann Park Conservancy, and the National Girls Collaborative Project.
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. 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 the Point Breeze neighborhood of Pittsburgh and attended Taylor Allderdice High School. She has three sons, also raised in Point Breeze.
Contact Mary at 412.464.4020 ext. 263 or mmurrin@riversofsteel.com.
