Amanda Perez is the Director of Finance and Administration (DFA) of CU Innovations at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. In her role as DFA, she is responsible for providing strategic advice to the Executive Director and leadership teams across campus utilizing financial information and operational metrics to encourage growth of medical innovations. In addition, she oversees licensing database management to enhance portfolio growth.

Prior to joining the team, she spent five years managing US fixed services FP&A team at Viasat generating $500M annual EBITDA. Additional previous experience includes over four years at Denver International Airport responsible for strategic planning of $3.5B 5-year capital plan, grant management and supporting a 2-year city wide enterprise resource planning system change.

Her experience includes pricing multi-million-dollar proposals for government and telecom companies in support of new business acquisition and development. Amanda holds a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting and Finance from Regis University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from Colorado State University.