Anne Sullivan Named Senior Associate Dean for Finance and Administration at the Wharton School

June 13, 2005 — The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania announced the appointment of Anne Rollow Sullivan as the School’s new senior associate dean for finance and administration. She succeeds Scott Douglass, who stepped down earlier this year to become vice president for finance and treasurer of the University of Pennsylvania.

Sullivan joins Wharton from Columbia University, where she has served as assistant vice president for administrative planning and financial management. During her two years in this position, she led a number of initiatives to improve financial reporting and controls for the university, including project management of the redesign and implementation of a new budget process across the university’s 300 budget units, enhancements of financial operations at the medical center, and an analysis of cash management opportunities for the treasury function. In addition, Sullivan established a new management reporting group for the central administration, building on her role in monitoring and evaluating the financial performance of Columbia’s human resources, facilities, real estate, administrative technology, student services and technology transfer divisions.

Prior to her appointment at Columbia, Sullivan was vice president for strategic development and marketing for the Fathom Knowledge Network, a lead consultant in the financial services and health care practice unit of Booz Allen Hamilton, and a financial analyst in the investment banking division of Kidder Peabody. She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia, a master’s degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a master’s in business administration from Harvard Business School.

Sullivan’s professional experience as a senior manager in both academic and corporate settings enables her to bring outstanding skills in financial analysis, strategy and business development to her new role at Wharton, where she will oversee the School’s $250 million annual budget, human resources, computing and facilities.

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is recognized around the world for its academic strengths across every major discipline and at every level of business education. Founded in 1881 as the first collegiate business school in the nation, Wharton has approximately 4,600 undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, and doctoral students, more than 8,000 participants in its executive education programs annually, and an alumni network of more than 80,000 worldwide.