FINANCE - Key Persons


Amber Randolph

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice Chancellor for Administration and Economic Development, and Chief Financial Officer ( Also Reports to RU - Newark Chancellor )

Andrea Acevedo

Job Titles:
  • Accounting Supervisor II, Cashiering
  • Accounting Supervisor II, Cashiering / Controller

Anelia Dolan

Job Titles:
  • Associate Tax Director / Controller

Anne Marie Cronan

Job Titles:
  • Accounting Assistant
  • Controller

Bernadette Carrow

Job Titles:
  • Accounting Assistant I Supervisor
  • Accounting Assistant I Supervisor / Procurement Services

Betsy Cafiero

Job Titles:
  • Director, Financial Information Systems
  • Director, Financial Information Systems / Controller

Bill Troy

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, Risk Management and Insurance

Brenda Crawley

Job Titles:
  • Accounting Assistant II
  • Accounting Assistant II / Controller

Carol Dombrowsky

Job Titles:
  • Accounting Specialist
  • Controller

Catherine Allen

Job Titles:
  • Accounting Specialist, Payroll
  • Accounting Specialist, Payroll / Controller

Christina Dolce

Job Titles:
  • University Controller, University Finance and Administration

Christine Clawans

Job Titles:
  • Senior Business Systems Analyst / Procurement Services

Cynthia Church

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Coordinator
  • Controller

David Moore

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President and Chief Budget Officer

Denise Durant-Dixon

Job Titles:
  • Senior Administrative Assistant

Dennis Castro

Job Titles:
  • Senior Cost Accountant
  • Senior Cost Accountant / Controller

Diana Chaves

Job Titles:
  • Production Support Analyst / Procurement Services

Donna Bahnck

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director Risk Management - Claims and Contracts / Risk Management and Insurance / Risk Management & Insurance

Douglas Horr

Job Titles:
  • Chief Audit Executive

Erin Egan

Job Titles:
  • Director, Audit and Advisory Services / Audit and Advisory Services

Eugene Simon

Job Titles:
  • Associate Vice President and Deputy Chief, Enterprise Risk Management, Ethics, and Compliance Officer

Gail Columbia

Job Titles:
  • Accounting Specialist

Gail Faber

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant

Glenn Christofides

Job Titles:
  • University Tax Director
  • University Tax Director / Controller

Harold B. Alexander

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Billing & Collections
  • Manager, Billing & Collections / Controller

J. Michael Gower - EVP

Job Titles:
  • Executive Vice President
  • Executive Vice President - Chief Financial Officer & University Treasurer
J. Michael Gower is the Executive Vice President - Chief Financial Officer & University Treasurer at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where he leads financial management and planning, procurement, and strategic administrative system initiatives. As part of his role at Rutgers, Gower was responsible for the financial integration of former units of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) into the university. Gower also oversees Human Resources, Information Technology, and Ethics and Compliance through their respective Senior Vice Presidents. He is the primary executive liaison with the Finance & Facilities Committee, the Committee on Audit of the Board of Governors, the Joint Committee on Investments of the Board of Governors, and the Board of Trustees. Prior to Rutgers, Gower was Vice President for Business Affairs and Chief Financial Officer at Yeshiva University, Vice President for Finance and Administration and University Treasurer at the University of Vermont, and a higher education management consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers. He spent 10 years at Duke University Medical Center, where he held various positions including Assistant VP for Finance, Associate Chief Financial Officer (CFO of the School of Medicine), and Director of Financial Planning and Systems. At Duke, he spearheaded the implementation of the SAP suite of administrative systems across the university and its health system. He held earlier accounting and financial management roles at Cornell University and Duke University. Gower is Past Chair of the Board of Directors for the Eastern Association of College and University Business Officers (EACUBO). He is the former chair of the Research Universities Council, the constituent group for business leaders at research universities, for the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO). Gower was also a member of NACUBO's Board of Directors and chaired its Committee on the Effective Use of Analytics. He was the recipient of NACUBO's Professional Development Award in 2008 and EACUBO's Distinguished Service Award in 2019. He is currently a member of TIAA's Advisory Council and of the Scholar Rescue Fund Selection Committee of the Institute for International Education.

J. Robert McKee

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice Chancellor - Designate for Finance and Administration

Jason MacDonald - Chief Investment Officer

Job Titles:
  • Chief Investment Officer

Jessie Chan

Job Titles:
  • Accounting Specialist
  • Controller

JoAnn Catanzaro

Job Titles:
  • Principal Claims Representative
  • Principal Claims Representative / Risk Management & Insurance

John Carroll

Job Titles:
  • Controller
  • Senior Accountant

John Fahey

Job Titles:
  • Associate Vice President and Project Management Office Executive

Joseph Bianchi

Job Titles:
  • Associate Controller - Payroll Services / Controller

José Román

Job Titles:
  • Vice President for Research Administration ( Also Reports to Senior Vice President, Office of Research )

Justin DeSantis

Job Titles:
  • Controller

Kathi Bonanni

Job Titles:
  • Payroll Specialist
  • Payroll Specialist / Controller

Kathleen Blake

Job Titles:
  • Accounting Specialist
  • Controller

Kathleen Bramwell

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration ( Also Reports to RBHS Chancellor )

Kim Yozgat

Job Titles:
  • Chief Healthcare Risk Officer

Kimberly Barriero

Job Titles:
  • Treasury Manager

Larry Gaines Jr.

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance ( Also Reports to RU - Camden Chancellor )

Laszlo Varga

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources Manager

Marian Silas-Balkum

Job Titles:
  • Secretary I

Maryse Bloom

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director
  • Associate Director / Procurement Services

Melissa Chen

Job Titles:
  • Controller
  • Manager

Merlina Adams

Job Titles:
  • Accounting Assistant II
  • Accounting Assistant II / Procurement Services

Michael Braswell

Job Titles:
  • Property Control Supervisor
  • Property Control Supervisor / Controller

Michael Chirichillo

Job Titles:
  • Accounting Specialist, Payroll / Payroll Services

Michele Norin

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer ( Also Reports to University President )

Mike Chen

Job Titles:
  • Senior Program Administrator
  • Senior Program Administrator / Procurement Services

Nayland Smith

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice Chancellor for Finance and Chief Business Officer ( Also Reports to RU - New Brunswick Chancellor - Provost )

Nicholas Di Giovanni

Job Titles:
  • Director / Audit and Advisory Services

Nimish Patel

Job Titles:
  • Associate Vice President - Procurement and Chief Procurement Officer

Padmini Balakrishnan

Job Titles:
  • Payroll Supervisor / Payroll Services

Peggy DeFina

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director, Healthcare Risk and Claims Management

Puja Dave

Job Titles:
  • Accounting Supervisor Lll, SAR / Controller

Rachael Honig - Chief Compliance Officer, VP

Job Titles:
  • Chief Compliance Officer
  • Vice President

Rachel Domingo

Job Titles:
  • Accounts Payable Supervisor / Procurement Services

Scarlet Journey

Job Titles:
  • Student Experience Improvement Initiative

Seema Bhargiri

Job Titles:
  • Systems Analyst, BI / Controller

Stephanie Reed

Job Titles:
  • Senior Director, Culture and Communications

Town Halls

Job Titles:
  • Finance

Tylesha Babb

Job Titles:
  • Accounting Assistant II

Vanessa Cevallos

Job Titles:
  • Unit Computing Specialist
  • Unit Computing Specialist / Procurement Services

Virginia Channg

Job Titles:
  • Accounting Specialist

Vivian Fernández

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President for Human Resources and Organizational Effectiveness

Wes Coleman

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Supplier Diversity & Sustainability
  • Associate Director, Supplier Diversity & Sustainability / Procurement Services