Mark Varholak promoted to vice president for finance/chief financial officer at Quinnipiac University

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Jun 16, 2015, 05:30 ET

HAMDEN, Conn., June 16, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mark Varholak, associate vice president for budget and financial planning, has been promoted to vice president for finance/chief financial officer at Quinnipiac University. The promotion will take effect July 1, 2015.

In announcing the appointment, President John L. Lahey said, "Quinnipiac University is most fortunate to have someone of Mark's ability within its ranks, someone who uniquely combines a decade of corporate private sector experience with over 12 additional years of not-for-profit experience at Quinnipiac. I am enormously confident in Mark's ability to serve in this new position and to provide continued financial leadership for us in the years ahead."

In his new role, Varholak will oversee all aspects of financial management of Quinnipiac's three campuses, eight schools and Division I athletics program.

For the past two years, Varholak has served as associate vice president for budget and financial planning and as a member of the President's Cabinet. Prior to that, he served for more than 10 years as an assistant controller on the finance team.

Before joining Quinnipiac, Varholak served for almost 10 years in positions of increasing responsibility at Deloitte & Touche and GE Capital, culminating in his final role at GE Capital as a manager of finance.

Quinnipiac is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution located 90 minutes north of New York City and two hours from Boston. The university enrolls 6,500 full-time undergraduate and 2,500 graduate students in 58 undergraduate and more than 20 graduate programs of study in its School of Business and Engineering, School of Communications, School of Education, School of Health Sciences, School of Law, Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine, School of Nursing and College of Arts and Sciences. Quinnipiac consistently ranks among the top regional universities in the North in U.S. News & World Report's America's "Best Colleges" issue. The 2015 issue of U.S. News & World Report's America's "Best Colleges" named Quinnipiac as the top up-and-coming school with master's programs in the Northern Region. Quinnipiac also is recognized in Princeton Review's "The Best 379 Colleges." The Chronicle of Higher Education has named Quinnipiac among the "Great Colleges to Work For." For more information, please visit www.quinnipiac.edu. Connect with Quinnipiac on Facebook at www.facebook.com/quinnipiacuniversity and follow Quinnipiac on Twitter @QuinnipiacU.