John Coppola named Loyola’s subsequent vice president for finance and administration/treasurer – Newsroom
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Following a countrywide search, Loyola declared currently that John C. Coppola, ’99, MBA ’00, will serve as the next vice president for finance and administration/treasurer.
Coppola, who is presently associate vice president for finance for Loyola, will start in the part on March 1, 2021. He will do well Randall Gentzler, who has served in the position considering that 2011. Just after Coppola assumes the part, Gentzler will be the senior fiscal advisor to the president right until his retirement on May perhaps 31, 2021.
“As we carried out a nationwide search for this place, Mr. Coppola swiftly emerged as the candidate with the strongest qualifications and the depth and breadth of knowledge to guide Loyola ahead,” explained Rev. Brian F. Linnane, S.J., president. “We are fortuitous that he also is aware of the chances and difficulties Loyola is facing with his experience—and proven record—as associate vice president for finance for Loyola for a lot more than 4 years.”
As associate vice president for finance, Coppola has furnished leadership over the controller’s workplace and all capabilities related to general accounting and money reporting, expenditure, financial debt and treasury administration, scholar administrative providers and all auxiliary operations. During his tenure, he has performed a critical position in doing work with leaders across the University to detect expense reduction and income development initiatives.
Amid the several tasks and initiatives he has carried out at Loyola, Coppola served on the Innovation Activity Power, which resulted in the generation of the Heart for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Aspire, was a critical member of the University’s Stimulus Response and Company Continuity Perform Teams that had been fashioned in response to COVID-19, and led the University via a bond issuance for the Fernandez Centre for Innovation and Collaborative Finding out.
A double Loyola graduate, Coppola acquired his BBA in accounting in 1999 and his Master of Business enterprise Administration in Finance in 2000. As a Loyola college student, he was involved in Campus Ministry and co-founded the club soccer crew.
“Being a double graduate of Loyola, I’m psyched to have this probability to husband or wife with leaders throughout the institution as we visualize the long run of Loyola,” mentioned Coppola, who lives in Millersville, Md., with his spouse and children. “It’s a humbling option to be capable to affect the strategic direction of the University. As all institutions of increased education and learning are controlling by way of the pandemic, Loyola is executing it from a placement of strength. We are an institution that is marketable and appealing for college students and we will proceed to supply on the promise of supplying the maximum high-quality academic and university student knowledge.”
Prior to coming to Loyola, Coppola labored at Notre Dame of Maryland University, was a principal at Ellin & Tucker, and served as chief monetary officer for his alma mater, Archbishop Spalding Higher Faculty. He is a qualified public accountant and completed the NACUBO Fellows Application in July 2020. He serves on the board for Archbishop Spalding Substantial School and the Marion I. and Henry J. Knott Scholarship Fund.


