Brandeis Innovation

Lipoi M. Finau, MBA

Director of Finance and Accounting

Lipoi has been a part-time OTL team member since March of 2012. His primary area of responsibility is in that of financial management, leading the annual operating budget and projection process of the OTL. While developing and maintaining multi-year financial plans, Lipoi also oversees the processes for creating, reviewing, and approving vouchers, billings, journal entries, payables, receivables and royalty distributions. Before Brandeis, Lipoi was the Director of Finance and Accounting for 17 years in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, where he managed the financial operations with an annual operating budget of $80+ million. Lipoi received his MBA from Alaska Pacific University and earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from University of Hawaii.