BRYN MAWR FILLS NEWLY REDEFINED CFO POSITION

John W. Griffith will become Bryn Mawr's chief financial officer and treasurer on Sept. 1, President Nancy J. Vickers has announced.

Griffith comes to Bryn Mawr from the University of New Hampshire, Durham, where he is the assistant vice president for financial planning and budgeting. During his 14-year career in the UNH system, he has contributed to the development of new policies for investment of and payout of endowment funds, implemented a decentralized budgeting system and developed models to forecast revenues and expenditures.

"The people that John has worked for and worked with were unequivocal in their praise of him," says Vickers, "and our interviews with him confirmed what we had read in his references. John combines a very thoughtful, personable and strongly collaborative mode of working with a real breadth of analytic expertise and experience. He is a rare find and we are lucky to have him."

Before joining the UNH staff in 1991, Griffith was a senior associate at the international accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand, which merged with Price Waterhouse to become PriceWaterhouseCoopers in 1998. He holds a Masters of Science in Finance from Bentley College and an undergraduate degree in business administration from the University of New Hampshire; he is a 2002 graduate of Harvard University's Summer Institute for Higher Education Management Development.

Griffith will fill a position that was redefined last December when the College's board of trustees decided to separate responsibility for financial management of the College from administrative management. As treasurer and CFO, Griffith will focus on budgeting, strategic financial analysis and planning. Current Treasurer Jerry Berenson will continue as chief administrative officer, concentrating on the quality of the College's administrative services and the needs of its staff.

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