About Us
CBO Partners® specializes in operations and management consulting and recruiting in higher education. While our recruiting associates focus primarily on schools of medicine, our consulting associates have significant experience in general management at both the university and the school level.
Our firm believes that well managed organizations have an opportunity to excel relative to their competitors even in a highly competitive and resource constrained environment. Through effective management and selective hiring, CBO Partners® can help your organization meet its strategic goals.
CBO Partners® was founded in 2007 by several former principal business officers from some of the nation's more prominent schools of medicine and universities. They all recognized a significant unmet consulting and recruiting need in academic medicine and higher education in general and are committed to helping fill that need.
Our associates have worked for and with the following institutions:
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Our Associates:
Amy Doonan Cronin
Amy Doonan Cronin has more than 25 years experience in the areas of strategic planning and evaluation, crisis communications, fund raising, media relations, marketing, special events, writing and editing, and publications management. Her background includes work at the University of Virginia, the University of Maryland System, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and Ithaca College.
At the University of Virginia, Amy served as Chief of Staff and Special Assistant to the President. She was a member of the President's Cabinet and also served as the President's liaison to the Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, University General Counsel, Vice President for Finance, Vice President for Management and Budget, Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Chief Executive Officer of the University Health System, Director of Athletics, and federal and state government relations.
Prior to joining the President's staff at UVA, Amy served as Director of Individual Giving and as a Major Gifts Officer for UVA's College of Arts and Sciences. Her previous development experience includes work as Director of Annual Giving at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and Director of the President's Club for the University of Maryland System. Amy began her career in higher education as the Sports Information Director at Hobart and William Smith, and later held the same post at Ithaca College.
Amy holds a Master's degree in journalism/public relations from the University of Maryland and is accredited in public relations by the Public Relations Society of America.
Contact Amy Doonan Cronin: amy@cbopartners.com
William M. Gleason
With 17 years of medical school experience, Bill Gleason recently held the position of Senior Associate Dean for Finance and Administration in the School of Medicine, Medical College of Virginia Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) where he was responsible for finance, administration, personnel, information technology and facilities for the Dean's Office and the twenty- nine clinical and basic science departments. He joined the School of Medicine in 1991 as Associate Dean for Administration, a position he held until he became the Senior Associate Dean for Finance and Administration in 2000. From 2002 - 2005, Bill also served as Associate Vice President for Health Sciences (Finance) while he continued his responsibilities in the Dean's Office.
Prior to joining the VCU School of Medicine, he served as VCU's Director of Resource Planning in the Planning and Budget Division, a position he held from 1980 - 1988. He was appointed Executive Director of University Planning in 1988 and held this position until joining the medical school in 1991. He has worked in higher education in various capacities for 37 years at both university and state level including administrative positions at Purdue University and the Indiana Commission for Higher Education. His experience includes institutional research, budgeting and financial management, strategic planning, administration and information technology. He has a B. A. in Economics from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar, and an M.B.A. from Indiana University - Bloomington.
Contact William M. Gleason: wmg@cbopartners.com
Polly E. King
Polly King, Assistant Dean for Administration at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, has served in academic health center administration for nine years and in the administration of higher education for fourteen years. Her experience is focused in policy development, project management, strategic planning, reporting, and the strategic review of chairs and center directors.
Ms. King also has over a decade of experience in the not-for-profit sector as a producer of concert series and radio programs, working with boards of directors, planning and executing programs, writing successful grant applications, and serving as spokesperson.
She earned her Bachelor of Business Arts from the College of William and Mary in 1980 and her Master of Fine Arts in Arts Administration from Virginia Tech in 1985.
Contact Polly E. King: peking@cbopartners.com
David R. Perry
David R. Perry is a veteran senior business officer in the field of academic medicine. His professional track-record includes two years of active duty as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army (1966-68), and seven years' service as legislative analyst and budget examiner for the U. S. Office of Management and Budget/Executive Office of the President (1968-75). The greater portion of his career, however, occurred in the medical education arena, where he served variously as chief planner, principal business officer, and confidential administrative advisor to medical school Deans at St. Louis University (1975-89), and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (1989-2006). Prominent amongst the Deans with whom he worked closely for many years were Drs. David Challoner and William Stoneman at St. Louis University, and Drs. Stuart Bondurant and Jeffrey Houpt at UNC-Chapel Hill. Born and raised in Indiana, he earned his higher education degrees at Indiana University (Bloomington), A.B. (with honors) in 1964, M.A. in 1966, both in the discipline of political science. In mid-2006 he was invited by the Chancellor, UNC-Chapel Hill, to serve as that University's Interim Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration, during a national search for a permanent successor to that position. Upon the arrival of this new University officer, Perry concluded his service to UNC and retired effective April 30, 2007.
His 31+ years of active service in academic medicine exposed Perry to a wide array of policy and operational challenges that commonly confront Deans and other senior leaders in both the private and public sectors. He is well-equipped to advise and assist medical school and general university leadership in diagnosing --- and devising thoughtful, pragmatic solutions for --- a wide cross-section of contemporary institutional issues. His particular areas of interest include: general administration, organizational design, inter-institutional relationships (e.g., with teaching hospitals, parent universities, and other health professions schools), financial planning and budgeting, human resources, regulatory compliance, and faculty compensation systems.
Contact David R. Perry: drp@cbopartners.com
James H. Scott, III
Jay Scott has over 18 years of experience working in higher education and academic medical centers. Until June of 2007 when he joined CBO Partners®, Jay held the position of Senior Associate Dean for Finance and Administration at the University of Virginia, School of Medicine. He held this position for nine years and worked with two different deans while the school grew from a budget of $338 million to a budget of over $544 million per year. His responsibilities included but were not limited to: accounting, budget, and compensation operations; administrator development programs; capital projects and space management; grants and contracts management; information technology management; and marketing and public relations.
Prior to taking on the Senior Associate Dean position, Jay held the position of Director of the Budget for the University of Virginia. He has also held the positions of Director of Administration for the Department of Ophthalmology and Director of Budget and Payroll at the University of Virginia, School of Medicine. Jay has additional previous career experience in management of small businesses and investment management. He holds a bachelor of arts in economics and a master of business administration, both from the University of Virginia.
Contact James H. Scott, III: jay@cbopartners.com
Amy S. Sebring
Amy serves as Associate Dean for Finance and Administration at Virginia Commonwealth University’s (VCU) School of Medicine. In this capacity, Ms. Sebring serves as the principal business officer with responsibility for the financial management of the School’s budget, strategic planning, and administration. Prior to coming to VCU, she served as a legislative analyst for the Commonwealth of Virginia Senate Finance Committee during the 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 Virginia General Assembly sessions. In that capacity, Amy focused primarily on budget and legislative issues related to higher education and debt finance. She has also served in the executive branch of Virginia, both as the finance policy director for the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) and as a budget analyst for the Department of Planning and Budget. Amy began her career in education policy as a research associate with the Education Commission of the States, a national non-partisan policy organization located in Colorado.
Amy received a bachelor’s degree in public policy studies from Duke University and a Master of Public Policy (M.P.P.) from the College of William and Mary.
Contact Amy S. Sebring: asebring@cbopartners.com
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