JeanmarieCooney

She leads the Finance and Strategy, Analytics, and Operations Planning teams focused on driving strategic planning and organization wide initiative management, enhancing the finance and accounting operations, expanding financial and data analytics and driving the procurement process. Additionally, she has oversight responsibility for the IT function. Jeanmarie and her teams look to identify opportunities to help support NYRR’s growth of its programs and events and maximize the impact on its communities through strategic resource investment, innovative revenue generation, and expense optimization. In partnership with the executive team, Jeanmarie ensures there is internal alignment of NYRR strategy, organization priorities and financial performance and appropriate liquidity levels and effective communication with the Board of Directors, NYRR staff, and NYRR external constituents.

Jeanmarie has over 30 years of senior-level experience in finance and operations. She spent nine years at Wyndham Worldwide, first as Senior Vice President of Global Financial Planning & Analysis where she was instrumental in leading the overall successful financial management of the company for 20 consecutive quarters. In 2015 she was promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, and she served in this capacity for three years. She was a key executive and partner with the business and was charged with leading financial reporting, strategic planning, budgeting & forecasting, audit, acquisition, risk management, IT, and shared services. After playing a critical role in splitting Wyndham into two publicly traded companies, she decided to leave Wyndham to spend time with her family. She recently was the principal of JM Consulting and Coaching Services where she advised companies on financial and operational growth.

Jeanmarie began her career at Ernst & Young and held many senior-level positions with blue-chip corporations including PepsiCo and Cendant. She is a graduate of Iona College with a BBA in accounting and earned her CPA. She resides in Stony Point, NY with her two children, and while she is not a marathon runner, she has been a lifelong supporter of physical fitness and is a really fast walker.