Vice-President (Finance and Administration)

Trudy Pound-Curtis

Trudy Pound-Curtis, FCPA, CPA, CA is a career university administrator with more than 30 years’ experience in higher education. She has held positions with responsibility for university-wide leadership in corporate financial management, financial systems, planning and budgeting, procurement services, treasury, pension, investment management, research administration, and risk and insurance management.

Trudy has a Bachelor of Commerce Degree and is a Certified Professional Accountant (CPA). She was recognized as a Fellow of the Institute of CPAs in recognition of her significant contributions to the Profession. She was also appointed to a Royal Commission to restructure the Education system in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Since June 2, 2025, she has been working as executive advisor (finance) on two important priorities: developing a new budget model; and identifying, assessing and mitigating financial risks. This work will continue as she takes on the full role of vice-president.

Trudy began her career in higher education administration as the comptroller and director of Financial Services at Memorial, a position she held for 15 years. She then took a position at York University in Toronto where she spent 15 years as the assistant vice-president finance and chief financial officer. She completed her career at York as the interim vice-president finance and administration responsible for Finance, Facilities, Human Resources, Security Services, Information Technology and Internal Audit.

Her major accomplishments at York include the successful design and implementation of a responsibility centered management (RCM) budget model, the implementation of the first eProcurement system at an Ontario university, implementation of an electronic travel claim system, unitization of the university endowment system, conversion to a substantially paperless invoice, journal entry and payment process for York, restructuring of the research administration process and the resulting reduction in staff complement through the re-engineering of all the Finance related systems.

Subsequent to her retirement in 2018, Trudy took on a contractual engagement as the financial advisor to the president at Laurentian University as it went through a CCAA restructuring process. Trudy provided guidance and direction on all finance related functions, including a restructuring of the pension plan, and facilitating the implications on research funding impacted by the CCAA proceedings.

Trudy was the recipient of the Ken Clements Distinguished Service Award in University Administration and in 2018 was awarded Honorary Membership from CAUBO. She was also awarded the Distinguished Leadership Award from the Council of Finance Officers – Universities of Ontario, and the President’s Award for Exemplary Service from Memorial University.