Christopher L. Augostini serves as the executive vice president for business and administration (EVPBA) and chief financial officer for Emory University and Emory Healthcare as well as the vice chair for Emory Healthcare’s Board of Directors. He is responsible for ensuring the Emory enterprise, in which Emory University and Emory Healthcare are strategically and financially integrated, is poised to create an environment that fosters excellence in people, facilities, infrastructure, and operating and financial performance. His innovative and collaborative leadership style brings cross-functional and enterprise-wide teams together, enables them to do their best work, and drives excellence operationally and financially. The exceptional results that Augostini and his team have delivered have led to Emory being the university of choice for students, faculty, and staff and the health system of choice for patients, doctors, nurses, and staff.

Reporting to the president of Emory University, Augostini collaborates with members of the president’s leadership team, senior management leaders of Emory Healthcare, the Emory University Board of Trustees, the Emory Healthcare Board of Directors, and other stakeholders to identify enterprise opportunities and issues and to implement long-term sustainable solutions. As chief financial officer, he is responsible for strategic oversight and leadership of integrated financial, debt management, and cash strategies for the Emory enterprise. Under his direction, Augostini launched teams to develop the first all-funds integrated financial plan and debt portfolio restructuring. Augostini leads the overall business operations strategy for Emory University including enterprise-wide master planning and real estate strategies; management of Emory’s approximately $7 billion investment portfolio; information technology and cyber security strategies; enterprise risk management, internal audit, and compliance integration; human capital practices of one of Georgia’s largest employers; and execution of campus services across Emory’s Druid Hill and Oxford campuses.