Metropolitan State University of Denver
- Russell Noles
Russell Noles was elected vice-chair of the MSU Denver Board of Trustees in December 2019. Russell Noles was appointed to the MSU Denver Board of Trustees in early 2019.
He is the Chair of the Finance Committee. Russell also serves on the Governance and Academic and Student Affairs Committees.
Russell is a retired corporate executive, serving most recently as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Nuveen, a wholly owned asset management subsidiary of Teacher’s Insurance & Annuity Association (TIAA), located in New York City. He was responsible for executive oversight of the company’s finance, information technology, operations and risk management functions. He was appointed to the role in June 2017 and retired in March 2019.
Prior to this role he was the senior managing director and chief strategy officer for TIAA for six years where he led a team that was responsible for strategic planning, corporate development and strategy consulting.
Previously, Russell was senior vice president of trust products for TIAA for three years, which included executive oversight for TIAA-CREF Trust Company, F.S.B., and Kaspick & Company (Planned Giving business).
Russell joined TIAA in July 2004 in the role of senior vice president and chief internal audit executive for three years and was the acting chief financial officer for the company for one year.
Before TIAA, Russell spent three years with the St. Paul Companies, a property and casualty insurance company in Minnesota where he was the vice president and chief internal audit executive for the company. Previously, he spent over seventeen years in the telecommunications industry in Denver with US West and Qwest Communications in a number of accounting, finance and internal audit roles.
Russell is a graduate of the Denver Public Schools and is an alumnus of MSU Denver, receiving a bachelor’s degree in accounting. He also holds an MBA from the University of Denver and is a licensed CPA. He previously served on the MSUD Foundation and Alumni Association Boards.
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