Meet the Owners

Gary Schwartz

Gary brings over 25 years of experience in the professional and retail industries to Express. During his “first” career in the wireless telephone industry, he managed and developed leadership teams with industry leaders like AT&T, Cellular One and Cricket. During his time as a General Manager in the wireless business, he helped to integrate newly acquired markets to the business, developed rate plan strategies, and worked with key accounts like West Virginia University to provide both a marketing presence and overall faculty and student package. Other responsibilities included interacting with the customer service and engineering organizations to create overall better customer service. During his tenure in wireless, he also won several awards, including General Manager of the Year for Cellular One.

Gary has been the owner of the Express Employment Professionals Office in the Pittsburgh North and Downtown market since 2011. The office was established in 2005 and it is the oldest Express location in the Greater Pittsburgh Area markets. The Pittsburgh North office services the Downtown Pittsburgh area as well as all of the northern suburbs, including the Sewickley/Leetsdale area, Neville Island, Wexford, Warrendale, Etna, the Route 28 corridor including the RIDC park in Blawnox, and Cheswick.  He is proud of Pittsburgh North’s record of servicing well over 100 different companies in the area, and his team has placed 1000 associates in each of the last several years. His office has a heavy focus in the light industrial sector, hospitality sector, administrative sector, professional sector.  He is also and Express University Certified Learning Professional.

Gary also enjoys helping in local communities and is heavily involved in the Pittsburgh North Chamber of Commerce, serving as the co- chair of the Legislative Committee.   He is also a member of both the Outreach and Ambassador Committees, and he is a member of the North Shore, North Side Chamber of Commerce.

He enjoys spending time with his family, traveling, gardening, and reading in his leisure time.  His latest and biggest focus has been the birth of his first grandchild in April 2015.

Esther Schwartz

Esther brings over 20 years of being a homemaker to the business. She worked professionally in the administrative field for 10 years prior to “retiring” to raise their children. When her husband Gary and Esther decided to buy the business in 2011, she reentered the work force to help Gary run the business. She has taken on the role of running the back office of the business.

Esther spent much of her career as a homemaker volunteering with her two daughters’ schools and leading Girl Scout troops. This experience has been helpful to her in the workforce as she occasionally helps interview candidates and is able to emphasize with people reentering the work force after having children.

She enjoys reading and traveling in her leisure time, just as her husband does, and now she devotes much of her attention to her first grandchild, born in April 2015.