Steve Cottingham Email & Phone Number

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

• Leadership and Administration:
• Assisted the Director of Athletics in all aspects of leading, managing and overseeing a Division 1 FBS intercollegiate athletics program with 16 varsity teams, 380 student-athletes and 130 full-time employees
• Chief Operating Officer for the athletic department
• Responsible for creation and management of a $52 million athletic department budget.
• Member of Department executive team with leadership role in all business, finance, legal, contract negotiation and human resources operations, key collaborator on all revenue strategies including ticketing, marketing.
• Sport administrator for men’s basketball, women’s tennis, women’s soccer, men’s and women’s golf and provide leadership and input on scheduling, recruiting, marketing, student-athlete welfare and overall program.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

Retained Senior Associate AD/CFO responsibilities below. Additional responsibilities include department leadership role for:*Day to day operations*Business and financial operations*Internal controls*Information technology*Equipment management*Purchasing/procurement*Contract oversight*Sport administration*Bowl game planning*Basketball post-season

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

• Leadership and Administration:
• Responsible for creation and management of a $36 million athletic department operating budget and for long-term financial planning including a proposed $220 million on campus football stadium.
• Member of Department executive team with leadership role in all business, finance, legal, contract negotiation and human resources operations, key collaborator on all revenue strategies including ticketing, marketing.
• Principal Department liaison with student government and student fee board
• Sport administrator for men’s basketball and men’s golf and provide leadership and input on scheduling, recruiting, marketing, student-athlete welfare and overall program direction
• Active prospect team member for cultivation and stewardship of new stadium, men’s golf and men’s basketball donors

• Responsible for leadership and management of department including 14 intercollegiate sports, an approximately $25 million annual budget and 70 coaches and administrative employees.
• Planned and launched men’s and women’s lacrosse
• Worked with university finance office to reallocate resources and control costs which resulted in an increase of more than $1.75 million to the operating budget
• Recruited and hired new head coaches in men’s basketball, volleyball, golf and cross country
• Worked with university advancement to reinvent internal structures and collaboration in athletic fundraising to increase annual giving to record levels and launched $20 million endowed scholarship effort
• Member of University Leadership Council (president’s cabinet) and university Investment Committee (supervisory body for management of $300 million plus university endowment)

I was interim athletic director during this period before becoming the athletic director on a permanent basis in February 2008

• Served as a senior university administrator with substantial roles in multiple university administrative areas.
• Member of University Leadership Council, university master planning committee, NCAA recertification steering committee, residence life and dining master planning committee and university strategic planning committee
• Led development of Athletics Department strategic plan
• Member of five person core team including Athletic Director and President regarding departure from C-USA and move to the Big East
• Worked with Athletics Business Office and university finance office to improve communication and transparency resulting in better financial controls and budget discipline along with fostering a cultural change from.
• Led university acquisitions of more than $20 million in real estate

Wisconsin

Member of the Board of Directors. ARW provides supporting services and education throughout the State of Wisconsin to adoptive families and to professionals working in the field

Greater Milwaukee Area

Member of Board of Directors. Westown is the community development organization for the area of Milwaukee's downtown west of the Milwaukee River and east of I-43.

Worked with Athletics Business Office and university finance office to improve communication and transparency resulting in better financial controls and budget discipline along with fostering a cultural change from adversarial to cooperative between the two officesLed university acquisitions of more than $20 million in real estate; Served as university's.

Associate attorney in the corporate department with principal work in areas of mergers and acquisition, general corporate and securities law.

J.D. With High Honors, Law, 22Nd Out Of Class Of 421

Activities and Societies: Order of the Coif

Bachelor Of Science With Distinction, Economics, Political Science And International Relations, 3.66