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Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration Appointed
Rev. Joseph G. Marina, SJ, president of the University of Scranton, announced that Timothy P. Doyle has been named senior vice president for finance and administration at Scranton, effective July 1, 2024. He will also serve as a member of the Cabinet of the President.
“Throughout his career, Timothy Doyle has established a track record of working collaboratively with academic leadership to build partnerships around transformational initiatives to establish and fulfill sustainable long-term financial plans,” Father Marina said in the campus announcement about the appointment. “He brings with him an impressive history of leadership experience in finance and administration in higher education, research institutions and the military, with the prospect of an established foundation in Catholic primary and secondary schools and a Jesuit college.”
The Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration serves as the University’s chief financial officer and is responsible for the ethical, thoughtful and strategic management of the University’s financial portfolio. Manage the operating budget and financial planning efforts; oversight and growth of the University’s endowment; support the academic mission; monitoring the advancement of the University’s technological infrastructure; capital projects and space utilization; and sustainability efforts; are all areas of responsibility for this position. The University’s associate vice president for facilities management, associate vice president for information technology, assistant vice president for budget and financial planning, and the controller report to the senior vice president for finance and administration.
Doyle most recently served as president and chief operating officer of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) in New York City, where he was responsible for a $250 million operating budget and 225 employees in finance and accounting, human resources, information management , marketing. and communications, legal affairs, corporate program and facilities management.
From 2015 to 2021, Doyle was chief operating officer and treasurer at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., where he was responsible for a $100 million operating budget, 49 facilities, and 100 employees. He was also a member of the institute’s strategic planning committee that sought to identify future areas of science, university partnerships and sustainable financial models.
Doyle also served as associate dean for finance and chief financial officer at Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where he led efforts to create a multi-year financial planning and modeling tool to generate five-year financial forecasts and financial viability analyzes of new academic and funding initiatives. Before working at Harvard, he was vice president of financial operations at Fidelity Investments and chief operating officer at Rand McNally.
Doyle earned his bachelor’s degree from Boston College and an executive MBA, summa cum laude, from Suffolk University. He participated in ROTC at Boston College and later served on active duty for three years and in the Army Reserve for a decade before leaving the military as a captain in 1995. He also pursued additional graduate and executive education programs at the Institute for Educational Management. at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.