Lisa Bagley Director of finance AEG Management CT LLC
Lisa Bagley is vice president, finance and administration at AEG Management CT, LLC, which operates the XL Center in downtown Hartford. She was the Hartford Business Journal’s 2011 CFO of the Year in the small private company category.
Bagley has been in the entertainment industry since the ’90s when she was the director of finance for SMG, the management company that operated the New Haven Coliseum. After that venue closed, she moved to SMG’s headquarters operation in Philadelphia before moving to AEG in 2007. AEG Management CT is a subsidiary of AEG, which is based in Los Angeles.
She describes her job as the most fun an accountant can have. She’s involved with recruiting staff, with booking vents and negotiating contracts, as well as a wide range of financial data gathering an analysis.
She has an MBA from Sacred Heart University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts.
Matthew O’Connor Dean Lender School of Business, Quinnipiac University
Matthew O’Connor is dean of the Lender School of Business at Quinnipiac University and director of Alternative Investments Institute there. He has been honored with the university’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Service to Students Award.
O’Connor earned his bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Connecticut in 1983. He then worked at Mass Mutual for six years, developing financial software and working on statistical analysis.
In 1991, he completed his MBA at the U niversity of Massachusetts. His next job was in the treasury department of Rogers Corp., a global manufacturing company based in Rogers, where he spent almost two years in cash management and bank relations.
He continued his education at Syracuse University, where he earned a doctorate in finance in 1998. He taught at the University of New Haven for two years before accepting a teaching position at Quinnipiac. He was named dean earlier this year.
