Dental Medicine Executive Director of Finance: Bruce Friedman |
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July 15, 2014, Volume 61, No. 01 |
Penn Dental Medicine has named Bruce Friedman as executive director of finance for the School. His appointment was effective June 23, 2014.
In this position, Mr. Friedman will serve as the School’s chief financial officer with senior managerial and fiduciary responsibilities for University and School policy, as well as the areas of financial strategy, fiscal operations, patient revenue, grants management and technology.
Mr. Friedman came to Penn Dental Medicine from the private sector where he was most recently chief financial officer of CSMI, a charter school management company located in Chester, PA. He was responsible for designing and implementing financial systems and controls to support operational and financial strategies and existing operations. His areas of responsibility included managing banking, audit and other financial professional service relationships; overseeing all aspects of finance, accounting, tax, treasury, grants and information technology functions; providing executive leadership for charter school development projects; and delivering financial management reporting, analysis and solutions.
Prior to his time there, Mr. Friedman served as vice president & corporate controller for Nobel Learning Communities, Inc. (2006-2011), a leading provider of preschool and K-12 education through over 190 nonsectarian private schools. From 1999-2006, he worked for subsidiaries of Exelon Corporation, as manager of accounting for Exelon Generation Company (2003-2006) and as manager of accounting (2001-2003) and operations area lead–Customer & Marketing Services (1999-2001) for PECO. Prior posts included six years with Verizon, in financial planning and analysis, accounting operations and financial and operational audits and three years as an audit associate with PricewaterhouseCoopers.
A CPA in the state of Pennsylvania, he holds an MBA and a BS in accounting and finance, both from Drexel University. |