Dallas A. Grundy joined Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM) in 2024 and serves as the Vice President of Finance and Administration. He is responsible for leading the College’s overall financial plans, policies and accounting practices as well as overseeing relationships with lending institutions and the financial community. Dallas joins PCOM from The University of Akron, where he has served as senior vice president and chief financial officer since November 2020.
Prior to his arrival at PCOM, Dallas led finance and administration including budgets, real estate options, construction management, auxiliary enterprises and more at The University of Akron—and served as treasurer and chief financial officer of The University of Akron Foundation. He has also served as vice dean and chief financial officer of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; as associate dean of finance and administration for the Rutgers Graduate School of Education; and as director of business affairs at Somerset Christian College.
His early entrepreneurial career was started by co-founding an educational consulting firm. From there, he served as chief operating officer for Access One in Newark, New Jersey, and as chief operating officer of BCT Partners, a management and policy consulting firm he helped launch that is now one of the largest Black-owned companies in the United States.
Dallas is finishing a doctorate of education, focusing on educational leadership, at Rowan University. He earned his MBA and bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University, where he was inducted into the African-American Alumni Alliance Hall of Fame.
He serves on the boards of trustees of the Akron Urban League, the nonprofit Coleman Health Services and the Lawnside Education Foundation in New Jersey where he is a founding trustee.
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