Maureen Binder has been UCF’s associate vice president and chief HR officer providing strategic leadership and oversight of all human resources functions since 2016. This includes overseeing HR compliance and policy development for the Administrative and Professional and University Support Personnel System employee pay groups; and serving as the university’s chief negotiator for non-faculty bargaining units. She acts as liaison to the Academic Affairs division on matters of mutual concern and serves as the business owner for Workday’s Human Capital Management system.

Prior to joining UCF, Maureen was the associate vice president of university HR for the University of Illinois System. She has over 30 years of experience encompassing all facets of HR management, including policy development, compliance, compensation and benefits, labor and employee relations, learning and development, performance management, talent acquisition and recruitment, and succession planning.

In May 2023, Maureen was selected to serve a three-year term on the national board of directors of the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) effective July 1, 2023. She has been a member of CUPA-HR for more than 20 years, including two years on the CUPA-HR Illinois Chapter board and three years on the CUPA-HR Florida Chapter board. She has presented at CUPA-HR conferences.

In addition to her extensive HR experience, Maureen has a deep commitment to the HR profession and supporting employees through professional development and positive employee engagement. She has an undergraduate degree from the University of Missouri, Columbia and a MBA from the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign.

Davina Desnoes joined UCF’s Administration and Finance Division as senior assistant vice president of budget planning and analysis in January 2025 responsible for the preparation and oversight of the university’s $2.3+ billion operating budget and the development of associated policies and procedures to support strategic resource allocation and planning and effective stewardship of financial resources. She collaborates with the Academic Affairs division on matters of mutual concern and serves as a business owner for Workday’s Financial ERP system and reporting software, Adaptive Planning.

Davina’s prior background includes 14 years at Cornell University where she was initially appointed as university budget director and rapidly advanced to assistant vice president for budget and planning.  She represented Cornell on all budget and related matters with the State University of New York (SUNY), oversaw an all-funds operating budget of $2B, capital budget of $1B and administrative support costs of $500M along with managing provost commitments and other special initiatives. She also served as a senior position planning advisor partnering with Human Resources to think strategically about position management and create dashboards utilizing data from human resources, budget, and financial systems to support decision making and management for $1.3B salary budget.

Preceding her successful career at Cornell, Davina spent 19 years of progressive experience at SUNYs University at Buffalo providing leadership, supervision, and guidance in the areas of administrative operations, budget allocation and planning, contracts and grants administration, and position management. Throughout her long higher education career, she assisted in or led the development of long-term financial strategies and forecasting models/tools, collaborated with other units to improve reporting practices and use of institutional data to support analysis and decision-making in enrollment management, financial aid, facilities, etc., and implemented best practices and internal controls to improve efficiency and compliance with organizational policies related to budgeting and finance.

Davina is committed to the Finance profession and remains active in her field via continuous professional development and active participation in national organizations such as National Association of College University Business Officers (NACUBO) and the Network for Change and Continuous Innovation (NCCI). She is a graduate from the University at Buffalo with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Management, and a Master of Education in Educational Administration and Higher Education.

Bert has been serving as the division’s acting vice president and chief financial officer since October 2025. In addition to these roles, he continues to serve as university treasurer, as well as treasurer for several UCF direct support organizations (DSOs), including the UCF Convocation Corporation, UCF Finance Corporation, and UCF Stadium Corporation. He also serves as president and treasurer of Legacy Pointe at UCF, a university-affiliated continuing care retirement community.

In total, Bert has 18+ years of GASB finance and accounting experience. He previously served as the controller for 4 of the university’s DSOs including the UCF Convocation Corporation, which manages a budget of over $30 million for the UCF Arena; the UCF Towers housing facilities, and surrounding retail areas; the UCF Stadium Corporation, which includes all financial activity relating to UCF’s Spectrum Stadium; the UCF Finance Corporation which is a corporation used to facilitate debt related transactions on behalf of the university; and Limbitless Solutions Inc., which primarily develops innovative 3D-printed prosthetic limbs for children.

Bert graduated from UCF with a bachelor’s in business administration accounting major in 2005, a master’s degree in business administration in 2009, and obtained his Florida CPA license in 2013.

Since early 2023, Lynn has served as Assistant Vice President for Budget, Operations and Strategic Initiatives, for the Office of the SVP managing division budgets (Financial Affairs, Human Resources, Office of the SVP, and UCF Public Safety), communications, strategic planning, and training. She also provides direction, leadership, and oversight for division and university strategic initiatives/projects as needed based on 20 years prior academic administrative experience. This included 12 years of executive leadership experience reporting to two prior UCF provosts as assistant vice president (4 years) and associate vice president (8 years) managing academic budget analysis and planning, academic personnel (faculty and staff) administration and planning, and administrative space allocation and maintenance.

Coupled with her academic administrative experience, Lynn also gained valuable insights into UCF’s financial administrative operations based on 8 years of experience directing budget initiatives for the Financial Affairs office. During that time, she co-chaired a committee to design and implement a budget allocation process to support student success initiatives; served on committees to select and implement two university budget allocation models; authored, designed, and managed the content for the RCM budget model redesign initiative website; and developed a series of web courses to educate our campus community about the State and university’s budget allocation and financial processes, governance structure, and policies/procedures, including the anticipated timeline, benefits, and impact of the new RCM budget model.

Lynn is a proud graduate of UCF with bachelor’s in management information systems and minor in computer science, and a master’s in business administration.

Danta joined UCF in January 2020 and serves as senior assistant vice president and university controller. He is responsible for financial reporting and general accounting, including cash, investment, and asset management; student account services; and tax, payables, and procurement services. He also provides leadership and oversight for the Knights Experience Team (kNEXT) finance and human resources shared services center jointly with UCF’s Chief Human Resources Officer.

Danta has over 18 years of experience in financial reporting and auditing, most recently serving as chief of financial reporting for the Florida Department of Financials Services (DFS). While at DFS, he served on the executive steering committee for the Florida Planning, Accounting, and Ledger Management (PALM) project to replace the state’s accounting and cash management systems with an enterprise resource planning solution.

Danta holds bachelor’s degrees in both accounting and finance from Florida State University, and is a certified public account. He enjoys spending time with his family and playing basketball in his spare time.