Our People
Guidance and oversight for the Empowering UF initiative is provided by Executive Sponsors and a Project Implementation Team. In addition, a network of Campus Advisory Committees and subject matter experts will join Empowering UF to provide guidance and input into the initiative.
Executive Sponsors
Dr. Donald W. Landry, Interim President
Mori Hosseini, Chairman, UF Board of Trustees
Executive & Policy Committee
Joe Glover, Interim Provost and Executive Vice President, Academic Affairs
Melissa Curry, Vice President, Human Resources
Elias Eldayrie, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Information Technology
Nick Kozlov, Associate Vice President, interim CFO, CFO
David Norton, Vice President, Research
Amelia Dempere, Chair, Faculty Senate
Jennifer Hunt, Dean (Representative), College of Medicine
Andra Johnson, Dean (Representative), IFAS
Saby Mitra, Dean (Representative), Warrington College of Business Administration
Steering Committee
Melissa Curry, Vice President, Human Resources
Elias Eldayrie, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Information Technology
Nick Koslov, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Office of the Chief Financial Officer
David Norton, Vice President, Research
Project Leadership
Angie Brown, Organizational Change Management Workstream Lead, Director, Human Resources
Elias Eldayrie, Executive Director, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Information Technology
Jim Freymann, Data Strategy Lead, Director, Information Technology
Stephanie Gray, Research Quality Assurance Lead, Assistant Vice President and Director, Research
Saira Hasnain, IT Architecture Lead, Associate Vice President and Deputy CIO, Information Technology
Nicole Jeffers, Technical Workstream Lead, Director, Information Technology
Laura Ling, Finance Workstream Lead, Senior Associate Controller, Office of Chief Financial Officer
Jacqueline Tucker, Senior Finance Adviser, Workday Finance Program Manager, Office of Chief Financial Officer
Alicia Turner, Project Management Lead, Director, Information Technology
Amber Wuertz, Human Capital Management Workstream Lead, Director, Human Resources