Shannon Sharp

Shannon Sharp is The New York Public Library’s Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Treasurer, responsible for financial strategy and resource management. Sharp oversees budgeting, accounting, reporting, procurement, insurance, banking, debt management, payroll, and all financial operations. Her team administers the Library’s balance sheet of over $2 billion, more than $300 million in operating expenses across 92 locations, and a portfolio of multi-year capital expenditures.

Sharp came to the Library from the Brooklyn Museum, where as CFO she led a cross-functional team's creation of a new operating model, with an engaging special exhibitions program at its core. She raised the quality and clarity of the museum’s internal and external financial information, including the early adoption of sweeping new accounting standards, archival endowment research, and implementing new budgeting, expense, and endowment management software. Throughout her prior career in public finance investment banking, Sharp has helped mission-driven organizations access the capital markets, structuring asset-backed financings for affordable housing, as well as educational and cultural financings. Earlier, she worked for the City of New York to improve the stock of affordable housing through loan and grant programs.

She earned a BA in Public Policy at Brown University and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.