EPISODE · Jul 28, 2022 · 46 MIN
122: Cindi Roth, West Virginia University.
from RAISE Podcast
Cindi Roth has been leading the private philanthropic efforts of WVU and WVU Medicine as the president and CEO of the WVU Foundation since 2014. Cindi, with her 30 years of experience in leadership, fundraising, finance, and strategic planning, helped guide and direct the Foundation’s historic and successful $1 billion+ “State of Minds” comprehensive campaign for the University, which concluded in 2017. The Foundation is currently in the quiet phase of its next Campaign of $1.6 billion, which is set to go public in the Fall of 2023. Cindi is the first female president and CEO and the sixth president and CEO of the WVU Foundation since it was established in 1954.A Pennsylvania native, she has served on several nonprofit boards in the western Pennsylvania and West Virginia region. Prior to arriving at the WVUF, Roth played a key leadership role in the University of Pittsburgh’s successful $2 billion “Building Our Future Together” capital campaign, as an associate vice chancellor for institutional advancement.Cindi earned her Master of Public Management degree from the Heinz School of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from the University of Pittsburgh and is a professional Registered Nurse in the state of Pennsylvania. Cindi lives at Cheat Lake, WV and enjoys golfing, running and cooking to balance her non-work life.
What this episode covers
On this episode of the RAISE Podcast, Brent chats with Cindi Roth, President and CEO, West Virginia University Foundation. Cindi has been an ICU nurse, a hospital administrator, a non-profit board member, Chief Nursing Officer, and Vice President of a major healthcare network. She was also the president of her senior class at the University of Pittsburgh, Pitt’s youngest Trustee, and is now the first female CEO and President of the WVU Foundation. Cindi is driven by a commitment to structure, process, and outcome; by the belief in equal health care for every single West Virginian; by a sense urgency without emergency; and by an embrace of élan, a French word meaning “to dart around with enthusiasm, flair, and panache.” Cindi can save lives in the ICU and raise billions of dollars to support first-generation college students, like herself. We learn how she does it all on this episode of the RAISE Podcast.
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