Manik Singh Jassal is a senior advisor to the CFO of the State University of New York and heads Project Management. Previously, he was a consultant in the private sector for 20 years, leveraging his entrepreneurial, thinking-out-side-the-box mindset for new and better ways of solving challenging problems. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a Project Management Professional and, for the last ten years, has served on the board of Woodward Children's Center, a school in Freeport, NY.