Mr. McFarlane has served as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for several nonprofit organizations and privately-held companies, as a senior executive in government, and as a cabinet-level administrator in higher education.
McFarlane is a dynamic and agile business leader with more than two decades of professionally developed leadership, strategic, financial, operations, and interpersonal skills. In several CFO roles, he has been responsible for the delivery of comprehensive finance, information technology, human resource management and facilities management functions. The breadth of his experience consists of traditional CFO responsibilities of accounting and audit, budgeting and resource planning, risk management and insurance, tax and compliance, asset management, treasury services and capital investment, and also includes program design and evaluation, facilities and construction management, security operations and business continuity planning, marketing, philanthropy and resource development and enterprise strategic planning. He has provided leadership to the full spectrum of financial management disciplines as well as to fundraising, human resources, information technology and facilities management, communications, marketing and public relations.
Mr. McFarlane has lectured in Economics and Management as a member of the adjunct faculty at Emmanuel College in Boston. He serves on the Board of the National Blood Foundation Research and Education Trust and is a Posse Foundation Career Coach. After graduating from Regis High School in Manhattan, he attended Brown University, and later earned a B.A. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts and a MBA from Bentley College. He is a native New Yorker, raised in the East New York section of Brooklyn.
