Alex Ferrari ’82 has been a member of the Mercy College Board of Trustees since 2011. He serves on the Executive and Development Committees and is the chair of the Endowment Management Committee. Alex retired as Executive Vice President and COO, Production & Production Technology at Viacom Music & Entertainment Group. He is married to Lisa Demaio Ferrari ’82. They now split their time between New York and Florida.
How and when did you first get involved with Mercy?
I first got involved with Mercy in 1979. I had just graduated from the Westchester Business Institute with an associate degree in finance and accounting and came to realize that an associate degree was not enough for the career I wanted. I started looking for the next place to take my college education and that’s when I first got exposed to Mercy. I needed a place where my credits would be accepted, that provided tuition assistance and that had the program I was looking for, and Mercy provided all of it. Mercy was affordable, convenient and enabled me to get a great education. I graduated in the spring of 1982 with a Bachelor of Science degree in finance and accounting and found a job almost immediately. I started as a staff accountant for a start-up company called MTV Networks, the company I stayed with for almost 35 years.
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