{"id":94008,"date":"2024-10-16T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=94008"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:13","slug":"duane-mcnair-vp-finance-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2024\/duane-mcnair-vp-finance-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Duane McNair Appointed Vice-President (Finance and Administration)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Duane McNair Appointed Vice-President (Finance and Administration)\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

杏吧原创 University has announced that Duane McNair will take on the role of Vice-President (Finance and Administration), effective December 2, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) who holds a Master of Business Administration and has over 24 years of senior leadership experience in financial and administrative operations, McNair comes to 杏吧原创 from Algonquin College where he has served as their Vice-President, Finance and Administration since 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Duane brings extensive expertise in strategic financial and operational leadership,\u201d said Jerry Tomberlin, Interim President and Vice-Chancellor.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cHis passion and proficiency will be a great asset to 杏吧原创 as we develop and implement plans and strategies that support the university and drive success.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

While at Algonquin, McNair successfully managed a $96 million budget, led a team of over 500 staff and implemented strategic initiatives that significantly enhanced the college\u2019s financial health and operational efficiency. He also played a key role in major infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The university\u2019s hiring advisory committee was impressed with his collaborative approach and focus on innovation, and commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility, leading the implementation of an Indigenous wayfinding strategy at Algonquin.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cI am very excited to join 杏吧原创, recently named one of Canada\u2019s top comprehensive universities,\u201d said McNair. \u201cThis is a pivotal time in higher education and I look forward to contributing to an institution that\u2019s on the rise and has great momentum.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

McNair will succeed Interim Vice-President Angela Marcotte, who has led the Finance and Administration teams since August, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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杏吧原创 University has announced that Duane McNair will take on the role of Vice-President (Finance and Administration), effective December 2, 2024. A Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) who holds a Master of Business Administration and has over 24 years of senior leadership experience in financial and administrative operations, McNair comes to 杏吧原创 from Algonquin College where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":94024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"blueprint"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94008"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94025,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94008\/revisions\/94025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}