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Bert Francis

Interim Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, University Treasurer

bert.francis.iii@ucf.edu
407-823-2351

Bert has been serving as the division’s interim 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.

Lynn Gonzalez

Assistant Vice President for Budget, Operations, and Strategic Initiatives

lynn.gonzalez@ucf.edu
407-823-2351

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.

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Danta White

Associate Vice President and University Controller

danta.white@ucf.edu
407-882-1005

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.