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Stephen diFilipo’s unique attribute is assessing emerging and evolving technologies and identifying the intersections where technologies and business needs meet.

For the past 20+ years, diFilipo has held numerous executive roles in colleges and universities providing strategic leadership and advisory support. More recently, he has been an executive advisor for 50+ campuses.

His current focus is addressing the compliance requirements for colleges and universities regarding GLBA, HIPAA, FERPA, NIST 800-171. Additionally, diFilipo has focused on AI, ChatGPT, and incident response, among other concerns with technology implications.

diFilipo earned his master’s of arts from New York University (NYU) in the study of media ecology. While at NYU, he developed a theory of mass media adoption of emerging technology focusing on the development of holography as a mass medium.

Dennis Dintino brings over thirty years of higher education experience at major research universities and private institutions to NACUBO consulting. His areas of expertise include turnarounds, mergers and acquisitions, enrollment growth, improved retention, campus transformation projects, and engineering of administrative and organizational structures from an HR perspective.

Most recently, Dintino was the senior vice dean for finance and administration at New York University (NYU). In Dintino’s 11 years at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering, he supervised finance and budgeting, facilities, capital projects and space planning, human resources, information technology, legal, public safety, auxiliary enterprises, food services, and graduate enrollment (dual report to academic side). Previously, Dintino was the chief financial officer for Polytechnic University. In his ten years at Polytechnic, he led a financial turnaround which resulted in a $14M operating deficit becoming a balanced budget within three years. Prior to his time at Polytechnic University, he was a senior internal auditor at Columbia University for ten years where he audited the School of Business, Law, Medicine and many academic and administrative units.

Dintino has a BA from Rutgers University.

Tom Herbert brings nearly 30 years of foundation and fundraising knowledge to NACUBO Consulting. Most recently, he was Miami University’s senior vice president for university advancement and president of the Miami University Foundation.  For almost ten years he led an advancement staff of approximately one hundred and fifteen in all areas of alumni relations, communications, information technology and development.  He successfully completed Miami University’s first $500-million campaign and successfully launched its first $1-billion campaign.

Herbert has presented at numerous development conferences for the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and served on its National Commission on Philanthropy. Currently he is on the faculty at Rice University’s Center of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership where he has taught a seminar on nonprofit management.

Herbert holds a BA in history from Northwestern University and a JD from Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Bill Sliwa comes to NACUBO Consulting with over 30 years of higher education experience. He served as vice president for enrollment at Lees-McRae College and Maryville College. Sliwa also served as chief enrollment officer at Moravian College and director of admissions at Utica College.

He is an industry expert on customer relationship management systems and financial aid leveraging, as well as strategic enrollment planning and retention. Sliwa also understands the balance of net revenue and budget planning. His career highlights include:

• Initiating a deep dive into first-year retention at Maryville College that led to an increase of 9 percent in year over year
• Overseeing Lees-McRae College’s first-ever brand study and new brand rollout and identifying the right vendor for marketing and communications for enrollment, which led to record numbers of new first-year students
• Introducing the idea of a budget planning committee and three-year budget models at Alfred University to better align spending priorities and create a strategic budget plan that prioritized retention and enrollment growth

Ruth A. Johnston is the acting vice president of consulting for NACUBO and the founder and owner of RAJ Consulting, LLC. She most recently served as the system vice chancellor and chief operating officer at New Mexico State University (NMSU). Over her nearly four-year tenure, Johnston oversaw vital areas, including finance and business services, facilities and services, enterprise risk management and safety, human resource services, information and communication technologies, government and community relations, and marketing and communications. Prior to this, Johnston held the role of vice chancellor for planning and administration at the University of Washington (UW) Bothell. Notably, she led the development of a pioneering hybrid budget model based on responsibility-centered management principles. In 2008, she established UW's sustainability office and masterminded the development of UW's Climate Action Plan. Johnston's educational journey is marked by a doctorate in organizational development and higher education, a master's degree in human relations, and a bachelor's in counseling psychology/social sciences.