Hartford Business Journal

22 Hartford Business Journal • May 6, 2019 • www.HartfordBusiness.com 22 Hartford Business Journal • May 6, 2019 • www.HartfordBusiness.com C-SUITE AWARDS 2019 Goodwin College's Meyer maintains fiscal stability while enabling growth By Patricia Daddona Special to the Hartford Business Journal G oodwin College Vice President of Finance Edwin J. Meyer Jr. sees paths forward in situa- tions that might scare off lesser finance experts. When the Southington-based Lincoln College of New England opted last August to close its doors by December, Goodwin College in East Hartford agreed to welcome two- thirds of its 300 students for its fall semester and the rest in the spring. Within a matter of weeks, students had to be enrolled at Goodwin, with the necessary financial aid and hous- ing, said Ann Clark, newly retired executive vice president and provost (now provost emerita). Though Goodwin has no dorms on campus, prior to the influx of Lincoln students, it did own about 200 vacant housing units in the surrounding community through a subsidiary of the college called Campus Realty. Goodwin, which today boasts 3,500 students, made those available and for the first time in its 20-year history be- came a residential college, Meyer said. At the same time, Meyer said he ensured that the students remained in compliance with the federal financial aid processes while getting aid pack- ages in place within about a month — all while reassuring his subordinates that the task was manageable. Meyer made these adjustments with "good humor" and kept people "from panicking because it was such a dis- ruption and had to be turned around on a dime," Clark said. Meyer, who lives in Wethersfield, received his bachelor's and master's degrees in accounting from Fairfield University. The Windsor native — who is col- lege President Mark E. Scheinberg's son-in-law, but reports to the execu- tive vice president and provost — came to Goodwin College from UBS Bank in Stamford in 2013, where he had been a business unit comptroller. "During Eddie's tenure, the value of CATEGORY: CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER OF THE YEAR Edwin J. Meyer Jr. Vice President of Finance, Goodwin College Size of organization: $82.1 million in revenues Education: Fairfield University, master's and bachelor's degrees in accounting Previous job(s): UBS, AG — product controller, investment grade/index trading and corporate lending; PricewaterhouseCoopers — senior associate, assurance, investment management group PHOTO | J. FIERECK PHOTOGRAPHY "What makes my role so intriguing is working in the broad range of areas we operate in, whether it's real estate development (or) a food bank on campus for students."

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