New administrators

Three new Executive Leadership Team members began their work on campus this summer: Ben Anderson as vice president for advancement, Scott Jordan as vice president and chief financial officer, and Gavin Viano as director of athletics.

Anderson comes to Trinity from Boston College, where he worked in advancement for 13 years. Starting in 2022, he served as associate vice president (AVP) for principal giving and campaign director of “Soaring Higher: The Campaign for Boston College,” an initiative with goals of raising $3 billion and 60 percent alumni participation. In the decade prior to that position, Anderson was promoted to several roles at BC, including AVP for major gifts and director of parent development. He previously worked in development at Habitat for Humanity International and at Skidmore College.

Anderson earned an undergraduate degree in economics with a concentration in Spanish from Bates College, where he served as captain of the lacrosse team.

Jordan joins Trinity from Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), the largest faculty of Harvard University and the academic administration for undergraduate and graduate education. Beginning in 2021, he served as dean of finance and administration, leading operations with a focus on long-term financial sustainability, managing the return to in-person work following the pandemic, and recruitment and retention of staff. Previously, Jordan served as executive vice president for administration and chief financial officer for the University of Connecticut. Prior to entering higher education, he spent two decades in public finance leadership roles for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, including as undersecretary of the Massachusetts Executive Office for Administration and Finance.

Jordan earned an undergraduate degree in economics, cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a master’s in public administration from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Viano most recently worked at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, where in 2020, he was named director of athletics and recreation. In early 2022, he was promoted to associate vice president of strategic programs and assumed additional responsibilities on top of his director of athletics and recreation role. Viano oversaw Wheaton’s Division III athletics and recreation program and contributed to the achievement of several institutional goals, including those centered on enrollment, student wellness, fundraising, and developing nontraditional revenue streams for the institution. Prior to Wheaton, Viano worked as associate athletic director for development at Davidson College and as senior managing director of athletics fundraising at Dartmouth College.

Viano earned an undergraduate degree in history from Clark University, where he served as captain of the men’s swimming and diving team. He also earned a master’s in sports management from Drexel University.

 

 

For more on all these individuals, please visit trincoll.online/NewAdministrators2025.