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Meet the Executive Vice President of Administration and Finance

Elizabeth Milavec serves as the University’s Executive Vice President for Administration and Finance, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer. This critical role is responsible for overseeing finance services and core operations in service of Rochester’s Meliora mission—ever better.

She is the first person to hold this role at the University, signaling the importance of the administrative and financial operations for the institution’s success. A certified public accountant with an MBA from Rochester’s Simon Business School, Milavec came to the University in 2016, and was appointed to the newly developed leadership role in 2022. She has extensive higher education experience, having previously served at Carnegie Mellon University for more than a decade as associate vice president for finance and controller. Prior to her time at Carnegie Mellon, she served as a senior manager at global accounting firm KPMG LLP, providing auditing and consulting solutions to clients in healthcare and higher education.

Meet the leadership team

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Caroline Burnicki

University Controller

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Chris Butler

Chief Audit Executive

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Michael Chihoski

Senior Associate Vice President of Facilities

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Michael Liberty

Associate Vice President of Environmental Health and Safety

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Courtney Peplin

Senior Associate Vice President of Finance

Quchee Collins, inaugural associate vice president (AVP) for Public Safety and chief public safety officer

Quchee Collins

Associate Vice President for the Department of Public Safety and Chief Public Safety Officer

Associate Vice President for Real Estate, Portfolio Management and Planning

Andrea Tompkins Wright

Associate Vice President for Real Estate, Portfolio Management and Planning

staff: office of the Executive vice president

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Noreen Cherry

Board Services Administrator

Kristen DeBenedetto, Assistant to the EVP

Kristen DeBenedetto

Executive Assistant to the EVP

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Winifred Foster

Chief of Staff

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Suzette Norris

Director of Communications