Addonisio Named VP of Finance and Management

08/28/2018 

Anna Addonisio, vice president for finance and management, joined the College Aug. 6, 2018, bringing a broad range of corporate and higher education leadership experience that spans nearly 30 years.

As the College’s chief financial officer, Addonisio ensures financial solvency through development, oversight, planning and implementation of fiscal policies. She provides leadership, vision and direction for the Business Office, Facilities Management and Human Resources and is campus liaison to the Auxiliary Services Corporation and the SUNY Cortland Child Care Center.

For the past 18 years, Addonisio served Binghamton University, most recently as the associate provost for administration and strategic planning. In that role, she provided administrative leadership across units in enrollment management and undergraduate education. Together with the vice provost for undergraduate education and enrollment, she was instrumental in developing a strategic enrollment management infrastructure and planning process for the university. 

Addonisio previously had worked as senior associate dean for finance and operations at Binghamton’s Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, where she directed and oversaw fiscal, human resources and operational functions for a college of more than 10,000 students, 26 departments and 14 programs.

A certified public accountant, she began her career in private industry first as a senior accountant with Piaker & Lyons, P.C., in Vestal, N.Y., and then as a corporate controller with The Matco Group, Inc., also in Vestal. 

Addonisio earned both her bachelor’s degree in accounting and her M.B.A. from Binghamton University. She has participated in the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Institute for Management and Leadership in Education. During the 2015-16 academic year, Addonisio was a fellow with the American Council on Education, further developing her leadership skills at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

She lives in Endwell, N.Y., with her two sons, Patrick and Michael.