First Commonwealth Updates Credit and Investment Real Estate Teams
INDIANA, PA. (July 16, 2025) ― First Commonwealth Bank has announced updates to its Credit and Investment Real Estate teams.
Craig Howard
Craig Howard, who has more than 24 years of commercial banking experience and currently the head of First Commonwealth’s Investment Real Estate Group, will be moving into a new role as Senior Credit Officer and Real Estate Chief Credit Officer. He is based in Pittsburgh.
Under Howard’s leadership, First Commonwealth has consistently grown its Investment Real Estate portfolio an average of 5 percent per year while maintaining best in class credit metrics amongst out peer group. Howard has been instrumental in this performance, actively managing borrower exposure limits, segment risk, and guidelines.
“Brian (Sohocki, Chief Credit Officer) and I are thrilled to bring Craig’s expert industry knowledge and perspective to our evolving credit business,” said Chief Lending Officer Mike McCuen. “Craig will report directly to Brian in this new role and will focus on supporting our Metro Pittsburgh Middle Market Group as well as our footprint-wide Investment Real Estate efforts.”
Prior to joining FCB’s commercial banking team in 2016, Howard was a Special Assets/Workout Officer at a regional bank, where he successfully managed an annual $100 million distressed real estate portfolio. His career started on Wall Street with Deutsche Bank in 2001 as a global management trainee before accepting a role as a collateralized securities analyst in New York City. In late 2002, Howard transitioned to commercial banking at Commerce Bank/TD Bank in northern New Jersey where he completed their formal credit training program.
Howard graduated from Grove City College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance.
Mark Cinquina
First Commonwealth also announced Mark Cinquina, a Senior Corporate Banker for the C&I Real Estate line of business In Cincinnati, has been promoted to Corporate Banking Group Manager.
Cinquina joined the Cincinnati corporate banking team in June of 2024 and has helped build its CRE business in Cincinnati. He also has helped to restructure and resolve certain CRE loans that that we considered non-core to First Commonwealth’s business.
Prior to First Commonwealth, Cinquina led a team of IRE professionals at a national bank, based in Pittsburgh, throughout the Midwest, Texas and Colorado for more than 20 years, developing a portfolio of more $15 billion. He also has been active in the great Cincinnati community and currently serves on the Board of Moeller High School and is active in real estate professional organizations.
Cinquina earned a Master’s (Economics and Quantitative Analytics) and Bachelor’s (Economics) degrees from Miami University, where he was an Evans Scholar.
About First Commonwealth Financial Corporation
First Commonwealth Financial Corporation (NYSE: FCF), headquartered in Indiana, Pennsylvania, is a community bank committed to its mission of improving the financial lives of its neighbors and their businesses. First Commonwealth operates 127 branches throughout Pennsylvania and Ohio and also has business banking centers in Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; and Cleveland, Canton, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio. First Commonwealth, through subsidiaries First Commonwealth Bank and First Commonwealth Insurance Agency, provides a full range of commercial and retail banking services, including mortgage, wealth management and insurance solutions, along with equipment financing and SBA and indirect lending. For more information about First Commonwealth or to open an account today, please visit www.fcbanking.com.
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