City fills top finance role with veteran of Klein administration
The Department of Education is filling its top finance role, empty for three weeks, with a veteran of outgoing Chancellor Joel Klein’s central administration.
Vanessa Conforme will serve as the department’s new Chief Financial Officer, city officials announced today.
Conforme is taking over part of the role that was previously filled by Photeine Anagnostopoulos, who served as Deputy Chancellor for Finance and Technology until she resigned the day after Chancellor Joel Klein announced that he was leaving.
Conforme joined the DOE in 2003 and has worked as the Deputy Director of Finance and Administration as well as Chief Operating Officer for the Empowerment Schools network. She’s currently the Deputy Chief Schools Officer for Operations in the Division of School Support and Instruction.
Conforme will not have a “deputy chancellor” title, but she will be part of the Cabinet, the elite group of advisors
