Kelly Fox has announced she will sign up for Rice University as vice president, Finance and Administration.

Fox joined Ga Tech in early 2020 and, during that time, crafted a new Administration and Finance (A&F) strategic prepare to better serve campus stakeholders, making use of information and a large-touch customer provider technique. She also created an A&F staff tradition council to carry the voices of staff to campus management, to link to colleagues, and deal with worries. She created a solid new group by welcoming leaders in Infrastructure and Sustainability, Human Means, and Data Technological know-how who will proceed to drive alter in services and high quality aided reform the Institute budget system and developed an Administrative Solutions Middle, established to launch in Oct, to considerably reduce the administrative load for all campus units.

“Kelly has been a transformative chief at Georgia Tech, cultivating a lifestyle of rely on, excellence, and accountability that will have a long lasting effect. She has led by illustration and has been a reliable and supportive colleague to me and the rest of our leadership crew,” mentioned President Ángel Cabrera. “Kelly joined us only one particular month before the onset of the pandemic, and I experience fortuitous to have had her working experience, wisdom, favourable mindset, and continual hand on my workforce. I will miss out on Kelly, but I discover some solace in the actuality that she will be serving and producing a distinction at another great college and below a member of the Georgia Tech prolonged loved ones, Rice University President Reginald DesRoches, previous chair of the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and honorary alum of Georgia Tech.”

At Rice College, Fox will be dependable for monetary and administrative oversight of the college to include oversight of fiscal planning and policies, financial reporting, debt and money management, monetary devices, non-educational budgeting, compliance, money marketplaces, accounting and audit, development, services, stability, housing and foodstuff expert services, and human assets.

Before becoming a member of Ga Tech, Fox led Strategic Sources and Support for the University of Colorado Boulder, guiding the money administration and arranging pursuits of the $1.8 billion university spending budget. Prior to that, she served as vice president and chief financial officer for the four-campus University of Colorado Procedure. In all, Fox has a lot more than 20 decades of doing the job in public bigger training.

Fox’s very last working day at Tech is Friday, Aug. 12. Particulars about interim leadership and the look for for a successor will be announced quickly.