Dear Campus Community:<br /><br />I am pleased to announce the appointment of Rosemarie Rae as the Associate Vice Chancellor, Finance and Chief Financial Officer (AVC-CFO). <br /><br />Rosemarie brings more than 30 years of experience in the field of finance and administration.  She will be joining us from The National Trust for Historic Preservation, where she currently serves as the CFO and CAO.  In her time working in both the public and nonprofit sectors, she’s developed broad, extensive experience in budget and financial management, strategic planning, and operations.  Prior to her work with the National Trust, she spent 5 years working at Volunteers of America, first as the Executive Vice President of Organizational Services and CFO and later as the Executive Vice President of Strategy.  Before that, she held positions as the CFO and Treasurer at Experience Works, Inc. and was the Corporate Controller at Loral Space and Communications. She holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Radford University and a Masters in Public Administration from American University. <br /><br />Rosemarie is uniquely qualified to help us integrate our new budget tools and use of metrics into an overall strategic framework.  She has deep experience in managing organizations where success is measured relative to both quantitative and qualitative medium term goals.<br /><br />I’d like to thank the search and advisory committee for guiding the competitive, nationwide search.  After careful consideration and valuable input from many faculty, staff and student stakeholders, we believe Rosemarie is uniquely positioned to help Berkeley achieve financial sustainability while maintaining our excellence and unique public character. <br /><br />I would also like to acknowledge Executive Director of the Campus Budget Office, Laurent Heller, for the exceptional job he has done as acting AVC-CFO.  His excellence and dedication have allowed us to continue achieving our campus goals while ensuring a seamless transition. He will continue as acting AVC-CFO until Rosemarie joins the campus on March 1, 2014.<br /><br />Please join me in thanking Laurent for his outstanding service and welcoming Rosemarie to Berkeley in this very important role.<br /><br />Regards, <br /><br />John Wilton<br /><br />Vice Chancellor<br />Administration and Finance