Richard W. Lawrence
Senior Vice President, Administration
Chief Finance Officer and Treasurer
University of Colorado Foundation

In June of 2006, Mr. Lawrence took the role of Senior Vice President of Administration, Chief Finance Officer and Treasurer at University of Colorado Foundation. Established in 1967, the University of Colorado Foundation is a privately governed nonprofit corporation whose mission is to support the University of Colorado. Today, the Foundation manages an endowment that exceeds $430 million and has total assets of more than $717 million.

Prior to joining University of Colorado Foundation, Mr. Lawrence was the Executive Vice President of Vectra Bank Colorado, leading the bank’s core retail operation in the greater Denver Metro area including Executive Banking, Business Banking, 19 branches and more than 150 employees. Mr. Lawrence also managed the bank’s statewide operations, a team of 180 in the Operations & Regulatory Relations groups.

Mr. Lawrence has more than 20 years of banking experience, much of it in leadership positions spanning finance, operations and retail bank assignments. Prior to joining Vectra Bank in 2000, Lawrence helped lead the nationwide Year 2000 Project for the Bank One Corporation as Senior Vice President. In this role, Mr. Lawrence developed and managed Bank One’s program to resolve Y2K risks associated with its computer systems and oversaw related communications, training, regulatory liaison and liquidity programs. He also managed corporate level initiatives relating to reengineering human resources processes and systems conversions for Arizona’s Valley National Bank and six individual Colorado banks in the Bank One system in the mid-1990s.
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The Management Team
Ashif Dhanani, CEO/President 
Bert Stjernholm, CFO

Advisors
Dr. Dipankar Chakravarti
Richard W. Lawrence
Enayet A. Jiwani
Erich Hauser

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