Board of Directors

Advantage Credit Counseling Service is supported by a voluntary Board of Directors who has a wide variety of experience in financial management issues.


Thomas D. Simmermon - Chairman
CEO - Collection Service Center, Inc.

Karen Ann Leitze - 1st Vice Chair
Senior VP of Research and Strategic Planning - Marc USA

Deborah P. Lippert - 2nd Vice Chair
Manager of Pittsburgh Operations - Pennsylvania American Water

Stephen J. Piotrowski - President
CEO - Advantage Credit Counseling Services

Robert J. Schuler - Treasurer
Retired - Executive VP of Health Services - Highmark Insurance Co

Lota Mitchell
Retired - Employee Assistance Program Consultant Sandra Solomon Associates, Inc.

Edward C. Wachter, Jr., Esq.
Attorney - McCann, Garland, Ridall & Burke

Charles Bennett
Professor - Gannon University

Lara M. Cil
Mgr. Strategic Planning - H.J. Heinz

Joseph L. Cosetti
Retired Judge - U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of PA

Bill Flanagan
Chief Communications Officer - Regional Economic Development Joint Venture

Frederick Eisenreich (Emeritus)
Vice President - PNC Bank

Edward L. Graf
Retired - Executive Vice President/CFO Ketchum Advertising

Sadie Kroeck
Manager of Customer Programs - Dominion Peoples Gas Company

Lynn Lovell
Retired - Senior Vice President - First Commonwealth Bank

Thomas A. Pollack
Associate Dean/Director of Undergraduate Students - Duquesne University School of Business

Donald Pringle
President - Bace Technology

Robert Raphael, Esq.
Attorney and President - Raphael, Ramsden & Behers, PC

Samuel E. Sarnicke
VP - Business Development - Cheetah Technologies

Nancy L. Skeans
Mgr. Advisors, LP - Schneider Downs Wealth

Anthony R. Savannah
Director of Marketing - St Barabas Health System, Inc.