Breean Fortier is a senior vice president and the function manager for the national Financial Support Office (FSO) with executive oversight of Boston Fed’s local financial management activities. In her FSO management role, Breean supports Federal Reserve senior leadership teams in developing annual and multi-year budgets that enable strategic priorities. She is also responsible for ensuring the delivery of accounting shared services to all 12 Reserve Banks. Breean manages the teams that work to optimize the System’s financial technology platforms, and she also oversees the Boston Fed’s accounting, procurement, financial planning and analysis departments, and the internal controls over financial reporting functional area. Breean is a member of the Boston Fed’s executive committee.

Prior to joining the Bank, Breean worked as chief financial officer at the New England Conservatory. She also served as senior vice provost for budget, planning, and administration for Northeastern University, held leadership roles in the Executive Office for Technology Services and Security and the Department of Revenue for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and spent nearly a decade in a variety of strategic and operational roles at Harvard University.