Patrick Beirne

Patrick Beirne has worked in Student Financial Services for 16 years across three university campuses, the last six as the Senior Director; Bursar & Student Financial Services at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Patrick has extensive experience utilizing multiple Enterprise Resource Platforms and Integrated Payments solutions. Patrick is a student centric, retention focused leader, and is most proud of the collaborative partnerships made across campus that have paved the way to creatively recruit, retain, serve, and graduate university students. Patrick fosters an organizational vision that strives to “retain every student” and “collect every dollar”. In addition to this student retention and A/R recovery focus, Patrick focuses on data-driven analysis and decision making and the consistent evolution of business process enhancement and efficiency.