Bob Shea is the University of North Carolina, Greensboro’s Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration, a member of the chancellor’s senior staff. He is responsible for finance, administration, budget, endowment management, auxiliary enterprises, risk and emergency management, human resources, planning, construction and campus police. UNCG has 18,000 students, a $490 million annual
budget, a $460 million endowment and 2,500 employees. Prior to joining the leadership team at UNCG, he served in similar roles at NACUBO, Elon University and the Community College of Rhode Island. Bob has presented on strategy, leadership and the business model of higher education at many leading symposia both nationally and internationally. Bob has served the many communities he has lived in as a board member and youth coach. He currently serves as a trustee for the State of

North Carolina Supplemental Retirement Board with $17 billion assets under management and as chair of the Service Academy Nominating Committee for the Sixth Congressional District in North
Carolina.

A veteran, Shea retired in 2007 from the US Navy as a captain. He served for twenty-five years with postings around the United States and the world, culminating his naval career with three years on the faculty at the Naval War College. He holds a Master of Business Administration from the College of William and Mary, a Master of Arts in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College and an
undergraduate degree from Massachusetts Maritime Academy.

He and his wife of almost forty years, Tracey Baldwin Shea, make their home in Burlington, NC with their chocolate lab Hobie. Together, they raised two sons, RJ, a graduate of Bowdoin College who is a reinsurance executive in Hamilton, Bermuda and Andrew, a graduate of the US Naval Academy, a former Navy pilot, who just earned his MBA at the University of Notre Dame, retooling for his civilian life. Bob and Tracey enjoy spending time with their three granddaughters and twin grandsons (and their sons and daughters in law).