People

Business Office

Dana George

Accounts Payable
212.353.4143 | ddelgado@cooper.edu

Tashay Gilbert

Payroll Manager
tgilbert@cooper.edu

Grace Lee

Senior Accountant
212.353.4162 | glee@cooper.edu

Chin No

Senior Director of Financial Planning and Reporting
chin.no@cooper.edu

Pablo Pilpe

Accounting Manager
pablo.pilpe@cooper.edu

John Ruth

Vice President, Finance and Administration
jruth@cooper.edu

Robert Ryan

Senior Accountant
212.353.4149 | rryan@cooper.edu

Keith Stokeld

Controller
212.353.4152 | kstokeld@cooper.edu

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.