Brett Cassell is the Bursar at the University of Colorado Boulder. Previously, he was the Bursar at the University of New Orleans and served in various roles at the University of Southern Mississippi in the Alumni Association, Bursar’s Office, and the Office of Contract and Grant Accounting. In total, Brett has worked in Higher Education for over 19 years. He is very excited to work with this committee and collaborate on ways to offer learning opportunities to our peers. In his spare time, Brett likes to hike, ski, and play sports with his six-year old son, Caleb. 

Joe Weglarz began his tenure at Marist College over 30 years ago as Director of Student Accounts. In 1999, he was appointed Director of Financial Aid, and was promoted to Executive Director of Student Financial Services in 2006.
As Executive Director, he implemented a “one stop shop” approach by combining student billing, financial aid, and student employment operations. As Executive Director, he manages these operations for the College. 
In 2014, Joe was selected to participate in Negotiated Rulemaking and was engaged in negotiations on the proposed regulatory language for the Department of Education.
He serves on the COHEAO Board of Directors as treasurer. In addition, he served as the Vice President of Finance for the Northeast Association of Student Employment Administrators (NEASEA), and was appointed President in 2014.  He also served on the NACUBO Student Financial Services Counsel. He currently serves on NYSFAAA Executive council as treasurer.
He has presented at various national and regional conferences on regulatory issues, and student financial services topics; such as college affordability, financial aid and bursar operations
 

Kathleen Brown is the manager of the Student Billing Department for the University of Oregon. She has been at the U of O for 9 years, coming from a career of over 20 years in personal and commercial banking.  She is passionate about providing exemplary customer service to our students, parents and campus partners, and believes strongly in leading by example. One of her favorite parts of her job is putting on Intruducktion sessions for incoming freshman parents.  She is excited about being a part of the PacWest committee, and  honored that she gets to collaborate and build relationships with such talented people.  Her free time is spent doing any activity she can find outdoors, and petting every dog.
 

Susanna is the Director of Student Accounts and Business Services at Mount Saint Mary’s University in the city of Los Angeles, California. She has been in higher education for 15+ years. She also has a business management and accounting background outside of higher education.  She excels in driving change and mentoring the next generation of employees. Work/life balance is very important to her. She enjoys travel, great food and spending time with her family and friends.

Cheri Gallagher is a Senior Relationship Manager at Flywire, a leading global payments enablement and software company, on a mission to deliver the world’s most important and complex payments.  Cheri has been with Flywire since 2021 and previously worked in Higher Ed for almost 20 years within the Student Accounts Office for two Liberal Arts colleges and a large State University.  She received her Master of Science in Educational: Policy, Foundations and Administration from Portland State University in 2011.  Cheri is excited to build new relationships and provide her support on the PacWest committee.  During her free time Cheri loves spending time outdoors and baking.

Virgil has led the Pacific and Midwest regions at Nelnet Campus Commerce since 2018 and has achieved BDE of the Year four years running. Prior to joining Nelnet, Virgil managed the learning technology marketing team for McGraw-Hill Education. Virgil has over 20 years in Higher Ed and experience in marketing, Enterprise and B2B sales, management, learning technologies, health professions, and payment technology. Virgil resides in Chicago with his family, two dogs and a cat and coaches Junior Girls softball.