Stony Brook, NY, September 6, 2018–Kathleen Byington, Associate Vice President for Business Operations at Yale University, has been appointed Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration at Stony Brook University, effective October 3, 2018.
Byington will serve as the senior executive responsible for managing Stony Brook’s financial, administrative and facilities operations. Working at the highest level of the University to advance its mission of education, research, and service, she will lead seven direct reports including the Vice Presidents for Finance and Human Resource Services, the Office of Internal Audit, and the Associate and Assistant Vice Presidents responsible for all facilities maintenance and design and construction activity, which currently includes approximately $800 million in projects on Stony Brook’s campuses. She will also oversee University Police and Emergency Management, Environmental Health and Safety, and Parking and Transportation.
In addition, she will work closely with the Provost and the Senior Vice President for Health Sciences, and their respective financial officers, to develop and implement a shared vision for how the University can best generate, sustain, and deploy resources to pursue institutional priorities and academic goals. Byington will report to President Samuel L. Stanley Jr.
“Kathy has demonstrated creativity, innovation, and strategic thinking in her prior roles and I look forward to the contributions she will make at Stony Brook as we look to strengthen the University’s infrastructure, systems, and overall capacity in financial planning, management, analysis, and reporting,” said President Stanley.
At Yale, Byington led all teams focused on financial and administrative services at the university and department levels, ensuring that lead administrators, operations managers and business office staff worked together as a team to provide high quality support to Yale’s faculty, students and staff.
Prior to her appointment at Yale, Byington served as Vice President for Administration and Finance at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, from 2009-2015, Vice President and Chief Business Officer at Georgetown University Medical Center from 2005-2007, Chief Financial Officer at Dartmouth Medical School from 2001-2007, and Finance Director for Genetics Institute from 1992-1999.
Byington received her BS in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University and a MBA from Northeastern University.