PNC Financial Services Group plans to elevate David Chamberlin to EVP and chief communications officer.

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Chamberlin, who joined the bank last year after serving as GM and EVP of Edelman's Dallas office, is in line to take the reins in April from Donna Peterman, who is retiring at the end of March from PNC and held the top slot since 2003.

He was previously posted in Shanghai for Edelman and was a senior VP MSLGroup. He was in-house as head of PR and partner communications for JPMorgan Chase and directed communications for Nortel, as well.

Pittsburgh-based PNC posted net income of $4.1B in 2015.