Snyder is an experienced finance, operations and administrative executive with broad experience in higher education, municipal and private sector industries.
She most recently was the senior director, business affairs officer at Wayne State University, served as a member of the university budget committee and co-chaired the university’s business affairs officer committee. Prior to that, Lucy served as director of financial planning & analysis for the city of Detroit as a member of the chief financial officer’s office, where she directed projects for the $233M bankruptcy exit financing and the City’s new $4B 5-year capital plan.
She also worked on the city of Detroit’s historic bankruptcy as a turnaround consultant for Conway Mackenzie directing treasury/finance restructuring. She directed the full accountability for more than 250 bank accounts for the city where her recommendations for internal control changes to comply with accounting best practices were adopted.
Snyder found the public service aspects of her work in the city incredibly enjoyable. So when she saw the chance to work at UMCI, she thought it was the perfect opportunity.
“It’s a center for innovation, so it’s going to be a place …to create an environment that’s going to set a really exciting tone for the city,” she said. “So I think it is an opportunity to design it collaboratively that’s going to work.”
Snyder earned her law degree from Suffolk University Law School, her MBA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and her Bachelor’s of Science in Economics from Boston College’s Carroll School of Management.