Randy L. Greene is named controller of Weill Medical College

By Jacquie Powers

Randy L. Greene, Cornell's associate controller, has been named controller of the university's Sanford and Joan I. Weill Medical College in New York City.

Greene, a key financial figure at Cornell's Ithaca campus for the past 13 years, assumed his new position Jan. 17. He replaces Craig Carmichael, who resigned to become director of finance for the Vanderbilt School of Medicine and Dentistry at Vanderbilt University.

"Randy brings a wealth of experience to the medical college," said Edward Walsh, senior director for financial management at the Weill Medical College. "We are looking forward to a long association that capitalizes on Randy's leadership and creativity."

As controller, Greene will lead the team responsible for facilitating all financial transactions within the Weill Medical College and for analyzing and reporting on the effect of those transactions. In addition, he will be responsible for maintaining financial standards and internal controls within the financial processes.

"The controller position fits extremely well with my background while still giving me the opportunity to develop further," Greene said. "The Weill Medical College is a premier medical college and I'm very happy to get this chance to be a part of it. "

As associate controller, Greene was instrumental in establishing financial policies and controls at Cornell's Ithaca campus, said Yoke San Reynolds, vice president for financial affairs.

"Randy greatly improved the professional competency of the Accounting Office and, therefore, the quality of our division's service to the university," Reynolds said. "He developed and implemented several important financial policies, and he was the driving force behind the creation of the Accounting Data Warehouse (ADW), a project he began in 1993, years before other universities started down the data-warehouse path.

"The Accounting Data Warehouse has been in place for four years now and is used by university departments routinely to generate operational, management and planning reports. And now the division is building on the ADW, with offshoots such as a financial data warehouse for principal investigators of sponsored projects and even using the ADW to provide accounting support for the PeopleSoft Human Resource/Payroll System," Reynolds said.

Reynolds congratulated Greene on his promotion. "Randy is an outstanding university citizen. His actions have always been motivated by what is best for Cornell. I am delighted with his promotion and wish him great success in this new and important undertaking. I look forward to continuing our working relationship to strengthen and improve Cornell's financial management environment."

A certified public accountant, Greene received his bachelor's degree in economics and psychology in 1973 from the State University College at Potsdam and his master's in business administration in 1981 from Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management. Before joining Cornell he worked for Cox Enterprise Inc. and Deloitte & Touche, both of Atlanta, and the Tuscarora Club in Margaretville, N.Y.