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Ask a

Describe your morning routine.
What’s a perfect day?

I’m typically up early and start the A perfect day amounts to making a
day with tea and reading The New positive diference in someone’s life.

York Times or Wall Street Journal It’s tremendously fulilling to support
online. I tend to plan ahead, a lot, and someone in addressing a business or

like to prepare as much as possible the personal challenge.
night before so I can make the morn-

ing more eicient.
What’s your biggest pet peeve?
Poor follow-up. It makes me ab-

How do you wind down at the solutely crazy, and it’s such a simple
end of a busy day or week?
way to make a diference. Meticulous

I love to read—it’s quiet and there follow-up is really one of the easiest
are no distractions. By the end of ways to distinguish yourself.

the week, for me there’s
nothing like the experience
Fill in the blank: Most people don’t

of being outside, especially know that I ... .

in the New Jersey Have been scuba diving in the LINDA BOWDEN
countryside or the Caribbean surrounded

Catskills, and
by sharks.
Regional President, PNC Bank
enjoying nature

with family and Linda Bowden, the New Jersey
friends.
regional president of PNC Bank, is
responsible for providing executive leader-
What’s your favorite part
ship and supporting client relationship and
of your job and why?
business development initiatives in the re-
It’s all about the people and the If you could learn any
gion, including corporate and institutional
satisfaction of doing a great job for banking, commercial banking, and wealth
skill, what would it be?
our clients. Helping clients to solve
Developing luency in a foreign
management, as well as supporting the
a problem and watching PNC col- irm’s community-based activities.
language. I’d love to be multilingual
leagues at almost any stage of their and particularly luent in Spanish.
Prior to joining PNC in 2009, she was
careers grow and prosper is terrifi- the managing director of Wachovia Wealth
Stranded on a desert island, name
cally rewarding. I also love the oppor- Management. Bowden’s extensive industry
tunity to network with community experience also includes past responsibili-
the three items you need to survive.

leaders and industry peers to ensure ties as portfolio manager, trust and invest-
A good book, crossword puzzles,
we are good neighbors in all of the ment oficer, and as a manager overseeing
and a solar-powered CD player

towns where we live and work.
private banking oficers. She began her
with plenty of classical music.
career as a teacher for seven years in

What leisure activities occupy your Wyckoff, N.J.
If you could start over, what
time away from the oice?
Bowden serves on the board of the
profession would you pursue?

My favorite activities include hiking Drumthwacket Foundation, as well as the
An economist. It’s fascinating
and being outdoors, along with executive committees of the Adler Aphasia
and appeals to my analytical side.

cross-country skiing and walking.
Center, the New Jersey State Chamber of
I also enjoy
Commerce, the New Jersey Symphony
What’s the most valuable lesson you

reading and the Orchestra, and Choose New Jersey. In ad-
have learned in business?
arts, everything dition, Bowden is a member of the board of
At PNC, there’s a great emphasis

from a good movie trustees of the New Jersey Performing Arts
placed on valuing people as individuals.
to an evening at Center, Liberty Science Center, and the
That means listening well and be-

the theater.
William Paterson University Foundation.
ing fair, in addition to providing and
Bowden earned an MSW from Columbia
receiving constructive feedback. It’s
University, an MA in institutional counseling
also important to appreciate the fact
from William Paterson University, an MBA
that mistakes and failures can be great
from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and a
teachers.
BA in education from Rowan University.

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