{"id":233142,"date":"2025-07-24T13:42:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=233142"},"modified":"2025-07-24T13:42:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:42:02","slug":"president-maric-announces-changes-to-the-universitys-senior-leadership-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2025\/07\/president-maric-announces-changes-to-the-universitys-senior-leadership-team\/","title":{"rendered":"President Maric Announces Changes to the University\u2019s Senior Leadership Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Colleagues,<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m writing to let you know about two changes on our senior leadership team.<\/p>\n<p>First, Jeffrey Geoghegan, who has served as Executive Vice President for Finance and Chief Financial Officer for both UConn and UConn Health since 2022, will be returning to UConn Health full-time as its CFO.<\/p>\n<p>Under the leadership of Dr. Agwunobi, UConn Health continues to move forward with its important plans for strategic clinical growth in the years ahead. Due to the enormity and complexity of this process, on top of the normal work of managing UConn Health\u2019s budget year-to-year, we agreed that Jeff\u2019s exclusive focus must be on UConn Health during this critical time, rather than on overseeing the finances of the entire institution.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his current appointment, Jeff previously served as CFO of UConn Health beginning in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>I want to thank Jeff for his excellent and exceptionally hard work over the last three years as he has helped guide our University through multiple budget cycles and in planning for our fiscal future.<\/p>\n<p>Related, I have appointed Reka Wrynn as Interim Vice President for Finance for UConn. In this expanded role, Reka will continue to lead the development and management of the operating and capital budgets for Storrs and the regional campuses, as well as oversee mandatory institutional data reporting and analysis. In addition, her portfolio will now include oversight of the Financial Operations and Controller\u2019s Division and the Procurement Office.<\/p>\n<p>Reka has been at UConn since 1999 and has served as Associate Vice President for Budget, Planning and Institutional Research since 2022. I want to thank Reka for her continued service to UConn and her willingness to step into this interim role.<\/p>\n<p>We will soon be launching a search for Executive Vice President for Operations and CFO for the Storrs and regional campuses. The membership of the search committee is below.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Fuerst (Search Chair), Vice President for Student Life and Enrollment, UConn<br \/>\nJeff Geoghegan, CFO, UConn Health<br \/>\nAmy Yancey, President and CEO, UConn Foundation<br \/>\nDavid Benedict, Director of Athletics, UConn<br \/>\nPhil Hunt, Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of the President<br \/>\nEric Kruger, Vice President for Facility Services and University Planning, UConn<br \/>\nDaniel Schwartz, Vice Provost for Academic Operations, UConn<br \/>\nJanel Simpson, Chief Administrative Officer, UConn Health<br \/>\nReka Wrynn, Interim Vice President for Finance, UConn<br \/>\nMargaret Feeney, Executive Director of Strategic Planning &amp; Initiatives, UConn<br \/>\nLindsay DiStefano, Associate Vice President for Research Development, UConn\/UConn Health<br \/>\nRobert Day, Chair, Senate Executive Committee, University Senate, UConn<br \/>\nRachel Rubin, Executive Secretary to the Board of Trustees, UConn<\/p>\n<p>We will be assisted in the search by the firm Russell Reynolds Associates.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nRadenka Maric<br \/>\n<strong>UConn President<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn to launch national search for Executive VP for Operations\/CFO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":173063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2162],"class_list":["post-233142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 00:20:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233143,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233142\/revisions\/233143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/173063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233142"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=233142"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=233142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}