EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (July 26, 2023) – The Triad Enterprise Journal has named Robert Pompey, vice chancellor for Enterprise and Finance at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State College, amongst its 15 C-Suite Award winners for 2023.
Pompey has labored for N.C. A&T – his alma mater – for 16 years, overseeing all monetary operations and serving on the Chancellor’s Government Cupboard. The journal beforehand honored him as its 2012 CFO of the Yr.
As chief of A&T’s Division of Enterprise and Finance, Pompey guides its mission to be student-centered whereas sustaining fiscal integrity and offering high quality help companies to school, workers and exterior clients. The division, which employs greater than 300 folks and consists of the Workplace of Finances and Planning, College Comptroller, Services, Procurement Providers, Human Sources, and Campus Enterprises, goals to be a acknowledged chief in increased training within the supply of progressive, high quality and customer-driven help companies the place all workers are valued.
Moreover, Pompey serves on the Cone Well being Basis Board of Administrators and as a member of the Gateway Analysis Park, Guilford Retailers Affiliation, and Oak Ridge Monetary Providers boards.
Triad Enterprise Journal is recognizing Pompey this 12 months for his administration of monetary belongings that has enabled A&T to not solely sustain with the strongest development development of any College of North Carolina System establishment, but additionally get forward of the curve. It famous that his administration of reduction funding and different monetary belongings enabled the college to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic stronger than when it started whereas retaining prices to attend very low for college students.
Because of Pompey’s monetary administration of various income streams, the journal reported, A&T constructed and opened the brand new Harold L. Martin Sr. Engineering Analysis and Innovation Advanced, acquired six pupil house complexes, constructed a 130,000-square foot Pupil Heart, and can start work later this 12 months on a 413-bed residence corridor. It has additionally secured $164 million in endowment funding.
Moody’s Buyers Service this month upgraded A&T’s issuer and excellent basic income bond scores to Aa3 from A1. The improve was pushed by materials development in monetary reserves, beneath Pompey’s management, and favorable tendencies in enrollment, up 11% over the previous 5 years.
“The C-Suite function is extra about managing and main than the technical facets,” mentioned Pompey. “In our enterprise, the final word measure is how profitable we’re in making a distinction within the lives of our college students and our group.”
A local of Kinston, North Carolina, Pompey started his profession as an auditor in public accounting, specializing in increased training. He was a senior audit supervisor for KPMG for greater than 10 years and labored as affiliate controller for Wake Forest College’s Reynolda Campus for 9 years earlier than returning to A&T in 2007.
Pompey earned his B.S. in accounting from A&T in 1987 and MBA from Wake Forest College in 2003. He’s a Licensed Public Accountant and member of the Nationwide Affiliation of Licensed Public Accountants.
