Kim Petry is the executive vice president and chief financial officer of Paxos, a high growth Fin Tech Company, where she leads a global finance organization and is in charge of the human resources division.
She graduated first in her class with a B.A. in accounting from Adelphi University in 1991 and earned her MBA in finance and international business from New York University. Petry served as managing director of finance at U.S. Trust Corporation/Schwab Corporation; audit senior manager in financial services at PricewaterhouseCoopers; vice president of corporate finance, planning and analysis and business finance and analysis with TIAA-CRE; CFO, global commercial/corporate card payment with American Express and CFO at Broadridge. She is an author and has contributed to several publications, including “101 Ways to Compete in Today’s Job Market” and has served as an adjunct finance and accounting professor at Adelphi. In 2017, she served as the keynote speaker for the inaugural Women’s Leadership Conference held on the Garden City campus. Petry lives with her husband and two children in Garden City. During her undergraduate years at Adelphi, Petry said she thought it was important to be involved on campus. She was a part of a number of campus clubs, including the Accounting Society, a marketing and advertising organization and a law club.
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Originally published in the Delphian Vol.73 Issue 2 – With updates made by Alumni Relations