REPRESENTING (ARCH)DIOCESE OF: Denver
POSITION TITLE: Chief Operating Officer
NUMBER OF YEARS IN CURRENT POSITION: Current position: 5 years 3 mos
AOD CFO previously for 4 years and 5 months.
NUMBER OF DFMC CONFERENCES ATTENDED: 10
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS: As part of the Archbishop’s Mission Leadership Team, I lead the operations of the Archdiocese. Departments reporting to me include the CFO and that role’s Finance, Administration and Planning offices, Real Estate, Office of Catholic School, Marketing and Communications, Human Resources, Cemeteries and Mortuaries, Camps and Mission Advancement (Development). We provide services to all of the entities of the Archdiocese including 148 parish locations, 35 schools, two seminaries, cemetery and mortuary operations, and 3 camp locations.
We have been transforming our diocese for an apostolic mode where accomplishments in this area include the implementation of regionally deployed mission support centers, revamped communication strategy, implementation of a diocesan-wide human resources system, a full missional restructure of our cemetery operations, the acquisition and launch of a youth and family camp location, construction of a priest retirement home and the successful restructure of our Mission Advancement office.
BRIEFLY DESCRIBE YOUR BACKGROUND PRIOR TO WORKING FOR THE (ARCH)DIOCESE: Before joining the Archdiocese, I spent most of my 20+ year career in public
accounting. A majority of that time was with Deloitte & Touche in their Chicago, New York, London and Denver offices. When I left public accounting, I had been an audit partner for 7 years with the last 4 of those leading the Rockies technology practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers. I also left public accounting for a short period in 2005-2006 when I took Crocs,
Inc. public in 2005 as their Corporate Controller.
ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION: I am happily married man with 5 beautiful children: Mattea (18), Dominic (14), Ezekiel (13), Josiah (11) and Quentin (9). After my faith and my family, my biggest interest is ultramarathon trail running.
EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS, ETC.: Graduate of Indiana University with a BS in business (accounting specialty), CPA
PARISH/CHURCH AFFILIATIONS: Our Lady of Fatima Parish in Lakewood, Colorado