Contact Info
Eileen Petula
Vice President for Business & Chief Financial Officer
Calvert Hall 109
(240) 895-4413
eepetula@smcm.edu
Bio
In July of 2025, Eileen Petula joined SMCM as the vice president for business and chief financial officer. In this role she is responsible for finance, accounting, budgeting and financial reporting, information technology, human resources, facilities and auxiliary services.
Petula comes to SMCM after serving as interim chief operating officer at Chatham University. She has held senior executive roles at Bucknell University and Allegheny College, preceded by increasingly responsible roles in higher education financial administration at Lafayette College and Swarthmore College. At Chatham University, she was part of a senior leadership team that steered the institution through the challenge of closing a significant operating budget deficit, implementing a plan that produced balanced budgets and restored fiscal integrity while maintaining the institution’s academic and co-curricular excellence. At Bucknell, she managed the university’s $264 million annual budget and endowment of more than $1 billion.
A certified public accountant, Petula holds a master’s degree in business administration from Villanova University and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She also has extensive experience on boards of directors for a variety of economic development, health care and arts organizations, most recently serving as a board member for the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry.
Divisional Leadership Team
Wanda Fenwick
Executive Assistant/VPBF/BOT
wmfenwick@smcm.edu
E. Jenell Sargent
Associate Vice President for Information Technology
ejsargent@smcm.edu
Office of Information Technology
Melvin McClintock
Interim Assistant Vice President of Human Resources
mamcclintock@smcm.edu
Office of Human Resources
Mary Grube
Assistant Vice President of Finance
mkgrube@smcm.edu
Business Office
Jonathan Dobry
Director of Capital Planning, Design, and Construction
jadobry@smcm.edu
Office of Planning and Facilities
Bradley Newkirk
Director of the Physical Plant
bdnewkirk@smcm.edu
Physical Plant
Anne Marie Brady
Assistant Vice President of Institutional Research and Planning
ambrady@smcm.edu
Institutional Research
Charles A. Wilson III
Interim Associate Vice President for Facilities and Campus Architect
cawilson1@smcm.edu