While Helen serves as President of Howard Hanna Real Estate Services, she is also Vice President of Hanna Holdings. Offices and associates under her jurisdiction span Pennsylvania, West Virginia and New York. Ms. Casey has spoken to real estate professionals throughout the United States and in England on such topics as sales, marketing and the role of professional women as volunteers and philanthropists.

She was the first woman to be elected President of the Board of Directors of the West Penn Multi List and only woman to serve on its board. She is also a member of the International Women’s Forum (IWF), the Irish Institute Board and is a past member of the Pittsburgh Garden Center. She is active in the Pittsburgh Vision Service and is a former board member of the Pittsburgh Guild for the Blind and Winchester-Thurston School. She is part of the Howard Hanna executive management team that spearheads yearly fundraising efforts for Children’s Hospital resulting in contributions totaling over $1,000,000.

Her designations include GRI (Graduate Realtors Institute) and CRB (Certified Residential Broker), and she is currently active in the Realtors Association of Metropolitan Pittsburgh (R.A.M.P).

A generous philanthropist, Ms. Casey has also been awarded such distinctions as the “Outstanding Achievement in Your Profession & for the Betterment of Society Award”, from Who’s Who Worldwide and the “Outstanding Service Volunteer Award” from the Abraxas Foundation. A Carlow College “Woman of Spirit,” she was also honored as an “Athena Award” finalist.

Current accomplishments include receipt of the “1997 Entrepreneur of the Year Award.” She is a member of the executive management team recognized by University of Pittsburgh’s Joseph M. Katz graduate School of Business as “1997 Family Business of the Year”. Since its inception, Working Woman magazine named Ms. Casey and Howard Hanna Real Estate Services among the “Top 500 Women-Owned Businesses” in the United States, for which she was honored at the White House.