DE222 Honoree: Alex Pires – Delaware Business Times [Video]

Title: President, CEO & Chairman and Partner

Workplace: Highway One Companies, Community Bank Delaware & Pires Cooley

Alma Maters: Boston University, George Washington Law School

Q&A: What’s something interesting about you that isn’t on your resume? “I tried to hitchhike around the world at age 19. Did not make it.”

Sussex County’s Alex Pires is not only a well-established lawyer, but has also spent decades building and growing local businesses. He oversees activities as president of Highway One Companies, an entertainment brand he founded 35 years ago that now includes a dozen entities highlighted by Dewey Beach’s Bottle & Cork and Rusty Rudder; oversees operations as CEO and chairman of Community Bank Delaware, which now boasts $350 million in assets; and co-operates Pires Cooley, a boutique law fi rm focusing on civil rights that he founded alongside his wife, Diane Cooley, in 2003.