Mr. Jenny oversees finances for Cincinnati Children’s, an academic medical center with annual operating revenue of about $4 billion and a workforce of nearly 20,000 that makes it the region’s second-largest employer. He successfully guided the system’s finances through the Covid-19 pandemic and significant shifts in National Institutes of Health funding, ensuring the organization could continue delivering high-quality care while sustaining its research mission, which has doubled in size over the past decade. As a leader on the executive steering committee, Mr. Jenny has helped advance Cincinnati Children’s collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Health Services Company, building on more than 15 years of work in the region to establish a world-class pediatric center of excellence alongside SEHA Sheikh Khalifa Medical City in Abu Dhabi. Before joining Cincinnati Children’s, he served as chief business officer at UC San Francisco beginning in 2016, managing a complex portfolio that included finance, real estate, human resources and IT, and was appointed interim executive vice president and CFO for the University of California from 2019 to 2020. Earlier in his career, Mr. Jenny held leadership roles at UC Berkeley, the University of Washington, the University of Alaska, the Brookings Institution and Loyola University New Orleans. He chairs the board of CincyTech and sits on the boards of 340B Health, Cintrifuse and StaqPharma. He was named “CFO of the Year, Nonprofit” in the Cincinnati Business Courier‘s “C-Suite Awards” for 2023-24.
