Ms. Guadalupe Valencia, MBA, CGFM, began serving as Interim Vice President for Finance and Administration & Chief Financial Officer at University of the Virgin Island’s (UVI) on July 1, 2025. She will provide leadership and guidance to the Administration & Finance units at the University. In this role, she will also help to ensure fiscal resources are properly aligned with the institution’s mission and vision.
Before joining UVI, Ms. Valencia spent several decades serving in accounting executive leadership positions at university campuses throughout the United States including the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center at El Paso (TTUHSCEP), the University of Washington (UW), the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) and the University of Arizona (U of A). In those roles, her duties included effort reporting, fixed asset/property accounting, service centers, facilities & administrative cost rates including corresponding negotiations, human capital management, facilities/physical plant operations and resources management, police operations, budget, student business services, capital asset management, financial reporting, financial system implementations, rate studies, procurement, and payroll operations. Furthermore, as Executive Director and Associate Controller for UW, she served as the primary liaison between the University and UW’s federal cognizant agency. At UAA, she served a dual appointment as Chief Financial and Administrative Officer (CFAO) for the Business Enterprise Institute and the University’s Financial Services Department. In this role, she served as CFAO for the Alaska Small Business Development Center and the Alaska Center for Economic Development. Most recently, she served as Senior Associate Vice President for Business Affairs and Deputy CFO at The University of Texas at El Paso.
Ms. Valencia is a Past President of the Western Association of College and University Business Officers (WACUBO) and serves on the board of the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO). She is also on the board of the El Paso Chapter of the Association of Government Accountants. She holds both a bachelor’s and master’s in business administration with a concentration in Accounting from The University of Texas at El Paso and is a Certified Government Financial Manager.
