Fresno State Athletics
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- Senior Associate Athletics Director for Business Operations
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With over 15 years of extensive athletics business and administration experience, Terry Donovan is joining Fresno State's senior leadership team as the Bulldogs' senior associate athletics director for business operations. His first official day at Fresno State will be July 20, 2015.
Donovan, an accomplished financial officer and athletics administrator, returns to the west after four years as the executive senior associate athletics director and chief financial officer at Syracuse. Prior to moving east, Donovan worked at the University of Nevada and Arizona State University.
Donovan worked for the Syracuse University Department of Athletics from 2011 to 2015. He was responsible for all aspects of the financial and human resources matters within the Orange athletics department, where he transformed a $3 million deficit into a $5 million surplus within 24 months while managing a budget of over $80 million.
As assistant athletics director for finance and human resources at Arizona State, Donovan managed budget projections and preparation, participated in senior-level business and financial planning, contract negotiations for vendors, had primary oversight of ICA, SAF and EADA audits and supervised the business office staff.
At Nevada, Donovan was an associate director of athletics for finance and human resource management after serving as assistant athletics director for business operations. He was responsible for managing, preparing, reconciling and administering revenue and expense budgets for the department and had daily oversight for all athletics department budgets. He also analyzed and forecasted department revenues and debt schedules, including capital projects.
He began his intercollegiate athletics career at Nevada in 2000 as a sales and promotions representative. After two years of coordinating all pre-game and halftime promotions and assisting in the marketing plan for football, basketball and baseball, Donovan was promoted to director of sales and ticket operations. In 2004, he was promoted to assistant athletics director.
After graduating from the University of Nevada in 1997, Donovan was named director of group sales and ticket manager for the Reno Chukars Professional Baseball organization. After nine months in that position, he was promoted to chief financial officer and assistant general manager, a position he held until joining the University of Nevada athletics department staff.
Donovan earned two degrees at Nevada, including his undergraduate degree in finance in 1997 and his M.B.A. in 2003. He is a member of Collegiate Athletic Business Management Association (CABMA) and was a presenter at the 2006 NACWAA Convention in Denver. Donovan and his wife, Brandi, a Clovis native, have two sons, Eli and Colby.
