John Lichten, formerly Dean for Administration and Finance, has become Executive Administrative Dean, while Laura Tobin Ketchum has joined HSPH as Chief Financial Officer.
Ketchum will be in charge of the Office of Financial Services, which will continue to be one of the functions reporting to Lichten. Ketchum will also be a member of the Senior Management Team. She brings 20 years of experience in the business and accounting worlds including several years at both Price Waterhouse and The Boston Consulting Group ("BCG"). While at Price Waterhouse she spent three years in Budapest as the manager of business advisory services, participating in the development of a start-up practice in the newly liberated Eastern Bloc. Her tenure with BCG included extensive world-wide financial management assignments, including time in Asia assisting BCG with its expansion in this region.
More recently she served as Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of Capital Resource Partners, a private investment management firm in Boston, and as co-founder of Hub Capital Management, a targeted return investment firm.
Lichten's new title reflects the expanded scope and complexity of the responsibilities that he has assumed and will be undertaking on behalf of the School and the University. He has been a member of the School's senior management for more than 10 years and was the School's Chief Financial Officer before becoming Associate Dean for Finance and then Dean for Administration and Finance seven years ago.
Lichten came to HSPH in 1988, after several years at the Harvard University Office of Budgets and Financial Planning.
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