Lisa Kopecky, M.B.A.

Ms. Kopecky, previously held the position of Vice President for Academic Operations and Finance at California State University Fullerton. There she served as the Academic Affairs division manager for fiscal and facility resources for 150 departments, serving more than 40,000 students at CSUF. With 25 years of education management experience (including strategic initiatives, planning and budgeting, analysis, academic operations, procurement, agreement oversight, facility planning, improvements and use, information security, and pay processing), she began her career with the Corporate Credit Union League of NY, served as Vice President/Director of Marketing for New England Savings Bank of CT, and then held the position of Director of Academic Operations and Summer Session for Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). She earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing and communications from Bryant College and an M.B.A. from WPI. Throughout her career, Lisa has successfully streamlined operations and access to financial information through design and implementation of workflow and online reporting tools; orchestrated the largest renovation and relocation project in CSUF history with more than 750 offices and 78,000 square feet involved; and planned for and provided direction to hundreds of classroom and facilities improvement projects, of varying size and complexity.