Innovation Campus welcomes new director of finance and administration

The Virginia Tech Innovation Campus has named Feride Daku as its first director of finance and administration. Daku has served Virginia Tech for a lot more than 25 many years in economical, managerial, and leadership roles. She was most just lately the associate vice provost for organization administration, overseeing spending budget, economic setting up, and useful resource allocation for the executive vice president and provost, vice president for variety and inclusion, and departments in the provost’s business.

“We are thrilled to have Feride join our increasing Innovation Campus group,” claimed Lance Collins, vice president and executive director of the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus. “She has been a amazing asset to the Virginia Tech community and will play a critical position as we suitable-size our school and administration in preparation for our campus opening in 2024.”

“As a proud Hokie, I am grateful and delighted to join the Innovation Campus and get the job done under the leadership of Drs. Lance Collins and Ken Smith,” said Daku, who begun her new position Dec. 10. “This is a wonderful opportunity to contribute to creating productive price range, fiscal, and administrative processes that improve operational performance and make improvements to assistance supply in this exclusive spot the place investigation and instruction will converge.”

In her role in the provost’s business, Daku worked with department heads and vice provosts to handle business functions. She served as the key compliance officer for the division and supplied evaluation and assist for main range applications and high-precedence educational initiatives.

Daku was formerly the director of finance and administration for the Business of the Vice President and Dean for Undergraduate Schooling, where by she was a vital fiscal advisor, providing management for fiscal, human methods, information and facts know-how, and community relations factors of the division. She produced economic designs and assignments that educated strategic planning and instructional systems whilst facilitative powerful partnerships with universitywide units.

Daku commenced her profession with Virginia Tech in the Offices of Spending budget and Economic Planning and Household and Dining Courses.

She retains a Ph.D. in increased training administration and an MBA from Virginia Tech. She also earned two bachelor’s degrees in finance and agriculture engineering from Tirana Agricultural University in Albania.