Pinnacle governance includes leadership from across the university to ensure all perspectives are included in decision-making. The Pinnacle Executive Steering Committee includes the Executive Champion, Program Sponsor, and Executive Committee members.
Key Responsibilities
The key responsibilities of the steering committee:
- Understand the full Pinnacle Program
- Champion Pinnacle efforts in the University Community
- Inform strategy and vision, and issues with a high impact to the stakeholder community
Decision Making
- Decide strategy and vision
- Decide escalated high-priority issues, regardless of scope of impact
- Decide changes to scope, budget and policies
Membership
The Pinnacle Executive Champion and Pinnacle Program Sponsor shapes the program vision and goals in alignment with other university initiatives, secures senior leadership alignment with vision, and finalizes key decisions.
The Pinnacle Executive Committee is the governing body during the implementation of Pinnacle. Members of the committee are:
- Pinnacle Executive Champion: Persis Drell, Provost
- Pinnacle Program Sponsor: Elizabeth Zacharias, VP for Human Resources, University HR
- Linda Boxer, Vice Dean, School of Medicine
- Steve Gallagher, CIO, University IT
- Randy Livingston, CFO and VP for Business Affairs
- Sameer Marella, Executive Director and CIO, Graduate School of Business
- Steve Olson, Senior Associate Dean for Finance and Administration, School of Humanities and Sciences
- Megan Pierson, Chief of Staff, Office of the President
- Bob Reidy, VP for Land, Buildings, and Real Estate
- Anne Sweeney, Senior Associate VP of Finance, Financial Management Services Ops
- Jennifer Widom, Dean, School of Engineering
