Greg Amodio came to Quinnipiac as director of athletics in 2015. In his current role, he oversees all facets of our 21 Division I intercollegiate athletic programs, including overall management, strategic planning, budgeting, development, external relations and human resources.
Amodio has guided Quinnipiac Athletics to extraordinary athletic, academic and philanthropic success. His leadership has resulted in dozens of championships, record-breaking fundraising and a transformative student-athlete experience.
Quinnipiac student-athletes have experienced consistent success in the classroom. Athletic programs have posted a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of better than 3.30 each year under Amodio.
Previously, he served as director of athletics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and associate director for athletics at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Amodio earned a master’s degree in education from Queens College and a bachelor’s degree in physical education and health from Davis & Elkins College.
He and his wife, Kerry, have two children, Jake and Alexandra.
John Armendariz joined Quinnipiac in June 2025, bringing more than 20 years of experience leading inclusive excellence (IE) programs across higher education, healthcare, nonprofits and the corporate world.
Armendariz most recently served as a global inclusion and diversity consultant at Starbucks, where he led enterprise-wide IE initiatives across international markets, strengthening employee engagement and global cultural competency.
Previously, Armendariz spent nine years at Northeastern University, where he served as the inaugural vice provost for diversity and inclusion. There, he launched and implemented a university-wide strategic diversity plan, created nationally recognized programs to support the inclusion of underrepresented faculty, staff, and students. He also led efforts to develop inclusivity focused training for students, staff, faculty, and co-op participants. His leadership helped elevate Northeastern’s national reputation for diversity which helped secure inclusivity-focused philanthropic support and corporate partnerships.
Earlier in his career, Armendariz served for five years at Yale University as associate director of the Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Worklife where he helped to scale up diversity and inclusion efforts. He contributed to the university’s first diversity strategic plan and integrated inclusive practices into leadership development and student programming.
Armendariz leads Quinnipiac’s Office of Belonging and is a member of the university’s Management Committee, reporting directly to the president. He oversees an eight-person team and guides campus-wide initiatives focused on inclusive programming, cultural events and community engagement.
He earned a BA in psychology from the University of Texas, San Antonio, an MA in education from the University of Texas, Austin, and an EdD from Johnson and Wales University. Armendariz comes to Quinnipiac with his wife, Roxana, and their twin sons, Diego and Mateo.
Tom Ellett, PhD, joined Quinnipiac as the chief experience officer in August 2020, overseeing all student-facing functions, including enrollment management, student affairs, registrar, bursar, public safety, veterans’ affairs, One Stop and dining.
Prior to joining Quinnipiac, he served as senior associate vice president for student affairs at New York University. He oversaw student-facing functions and residential life for 11,000 students spread across New York City. He led the university’s logistical response to COVID-19, a complex undertaking in a city that was initially the country’s epicenter of the coronavirus.
Ellett brings deep expertise and a student-centered mindset, focusing on improving the student experience on the NYU campus as well as across its 14 global centers. He led the creation of living-learning communities to enrich students’ intellectual and personal growth, and lived with his family throughout his time at NYU in a student residence hall. He was instrumental in creating a new Center for Student Life, which integrated student activities and the student resource center into a single cohesive unit.
Ellett has an undergraduate degree in English from Fordham University, a master’s degree in fine arts from Catholic University, and a doctorate in educational leadership, administration and policy from Fordham.
Dan Kim has extensive experience in marketing, communications and social media with a successful track record for excellence and impact at several significant higher education institutions.
He oversees the Office of Marketing and Communications at Quinnipiac, including the Quinnipiac University Poll and the Center for Survey Insights.
Most recently, he served as senior vice president for communications, marketing and external relations at Brandeis University, where he developed a highly successful brand platform and communications plan which aligned messaging across the entire institution, including the Offices of Admissions and Advancement. He also led the university-wide communications strategy during COVID-19 and other moments of challenge.
Before Brandeis, Kim served as vice president for marketing and communications at the College of the Holy Cross, where he oversaw crisis communications, government and community relations, and strategic marketing to enhance reputation, support admissions and drive fundraising.
Prior to Holy Cross, he served as executive director of communications and marketing at the University of Michigan College of Engineering. Earlier, he held the position of director of news and information at West Virginia University.
Before West Virginia University, Kim’s roles included serving as vice president of media integration for the Detroit News and Free Press, and editor and publisher of the ABA Journal of the American Bar Association.
Kim holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Michigan and a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School.
Debra Liebowitz is an innovative leader with an impactful record of creating partnerships and launching initiatives that enable university growth, promote diversity, strengthen shared governance, and immersive learning opportunities. She oversees all academic programs at Quinnipiac, the university’s nine schools, and all other academic units and centers. She is also a professor of political science at Quinnipiac.
Liebowitz most recently served as provost and dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Caspersen School of Graduate Studies at Drew University, where she led three schools with approximately 2,200 undergraduate and graduate students. Liebowitz joined Drew in 2000 as an assistant professor teaching international politics and gender studies. She assumed positions of increasing responsibility, including director of the women and gender studies program, and associate dean for curriculum in the College of Liberal Arts and associate provost, before her appointment as provost in 2017. Liebowitz earned the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, and the Center for Civic Engagement’s Faculty Leadership Award while at Drew. She currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Human Rights.
She holds degrees in political science — an undergraduate degree from the University of Oregon, and master’s and doctoral degrees from Rutgers University.
Matt Romeo, MBA '97, joined Quinnipiac in 1997 as assistant coordinator for information services, and was appointed chief information officer in 2022, and vice president for information technology and chief information officer in 2026.
In his role, Romeo is responsible for overseeing the university’s broad array of technology management initiatives, providing leadership to optimize data and information in support of the university’s academic and strategic priorities. He has more than 25 years of experience in IT roles at Quinnipiac, providing an invaluable perspective to the integration of technology across all academic and administrative units at the university.
Throughout his career at Quinnipiac, Romeo has continued to teach management and computer information systems classes in the School of Business, where he earned his MBA. He also has a bachelor’s degree in international business from Albertus Magnus College.
Adam D. Roth serves as Executive Dean and Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Quinnipiac University. As the university’s inaugural Executive Dean, he is a member of the President’s Management Committee, which oversees the day-to-day and strategic operations of the university. He works with the president and senior leadership on institution-wide priorities, coordinates and collaborates with the deans of Quinnipiac’s eight other schools, and leads cross-divisional initiatives that leverage the collective strengths of the university’s schools and resources. He also contributes to university-wide strategic planning and the planning of Board of Trustees meetings and retreats.
As Dean and Chief Academic & Executive Officer of the College of Arts & Sciences, Roth leads the academic, financial, and administrative operations of the university’s largest and most academically diverse college, overseeing a budget exceeding $30 million. A dynamic and entrepreneurial academic leader, he is a dedicated advocate for the liberal arts in action and for connecting liberal learning with professional preparation. Since becoming Dean in 2021, he has led significant academic innovation and enrollment growth. From 2022 to 2024, overall College enrollment increased by 10.8%, while deposits into humanities majors increased by 78%. More than 99% of recent graduates have been employed or enrolled in graduate school within six months of graduation.
Fundraising and external engagement have been central to Roth’s leadership. Throughout his career, he has secured more than $25 million in philanthropic support, translating donor, foundation, and corporate partnerships into transformative investments in student success, scholarships, experiential learning, the arts and humanities, academic innovation, and facilities and infrastructure. He has also secured more than $850,000 in grants and prestigious awards supporting research, teaching, and innovation.
Roth is also engaged in national conversations about the future of higher education. His recent work has focused on reduced-credit bachelor’s degrees as an approach to affordability and new models of undergraduate education. He has published research on reduced-credit degree models and has been sought out by the media for expert commentary on their implications for students and institutions.
Prior to Quinnipiac, Roth served as Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and Director of the Harrington School of Communication and Media at the University of Rhode Island. An accomplished scholar and educator, he is lead author of the tenth edition of Thinking Through Communication and has published and presented his scholarship nationally and internationally.
Roth holds a bachelor's degree in communication and business from the University of Pittsburgh; master's and doctoral degrees in communication studies and a graduate certificate in interdisciplinary inquiry from the University of Iowa; and an MBA from Quinnipiac University. His executive leadership development includes Harvard University's Management Development Program, Quinnipiac University's Leadership Bench Strength Program, and the AGB Institute for Leadership & Governance in Higher Education.
Aaron C. Trump has extensive legal and higher education experience in a variety of areas.
As general counsel, he serves as the chief legal officer of the university, coordinating all of Quinnipiac’s legal affairs and providing advice and counsel to the university’s president, Board of Trustees, executive officers, faculty and staff. He oversees all outside use of counsel and advises on all legal matters and is responsible for compliance with federal and local laws.
Before joining Quinnipiac, he served as vice president for government affairs and general counsel at the University of Southern Indiana. In that role, his expertise informed university policy on a broad range of laws and regulations, impacting higher education, including federal and state employment and civil rights laws, contract law, athletics regulations, disability rights and institutional compliance.
Trump started his career in student affairs, where he developed a deep understanding of higher education administration, before transitioning to law — first in the private sector and then in the university setting.
He also served in the U.S. Army National Guard, achieving the rank of staff sergeant as a section chief in a field artillery unit.
Trump earned a bachelor's degree in psychology and master's degree in higher education and student affairs, both from Indiana University. He earned a Juris Doctor from Washington University in St. Louis.
Mark Varholak was appointed vice president for finance and chief financial officer in July 2015, after serving as associate vice president for budget and financial planning since July 2013. Prior to that he was the university's associate controller for 10 years.
Varholak earned his MBA with concentrations in finance and international business from New York University. He also has a bachelor’s degree in accounting and international business from Pennsylvania State University.
Nick Wormley ’00, MBA ’02, has extensive alumni and development experience and deep roots at Quinnipiac.
Throughout his nearly 20 years working in higher education, he has demonstrated a clear track record of excelling as a donor-focused adviser with strong regional community ties. He has an impressive track record of securing major gifts and has developed a reputation for developing strong teams to use various digital and traditional media and events to engage alumni and parents in positive and productive ways.
Wormley began his career in the athletics department at Quinnipiac before moving to Tucson, Arizona and working in secondary finance. In 2006, he and his wife, Michelle Wormley ‘02, MPT ’04, moved back to Connecticut to start his career in development and alumni affairs. He later worked at at Sacred Heart University and Fairfield University where he also focused on athletic development, endowment, capital fundraising — all in senior management roles.
He returned to Quinnipiac in 2022 as associate vice president for development and alumni affairs before being named vice president of development and alumni affairs in March 2024.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and an MBA in finance from Quinnipiac.
Bethany Zemba joined Quinnipiac as vice president and chief of staff in December 2018. Previously, she served as a senior associate dean, chief of staff and senior adviser to the dean of the faculty of arts and sciences at Yale University. Before that, she worked at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Zemba brings a range of strategic higher education leadership and expertise to her role at Quinnipiac, where she is responsible for working closely with the senior management team to direct the formulation and execution of the university’s strategic plan; coordinate institutional research; oversee community relations; and serve as the primary liaison to the board of trustees.
Zemba earned a bachelor of science and a master of public administration from the University of Rhode Island, and a doctorate in education, with a focus on higher education administration, from Johnson and Wales University.
