Samuel Wilson III

February 2022 – Bridge Partners is pleased to announce the appointment of Samuel Wilson III as Associate Dean for Finance and Administration at Johns Hopkins University, The Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.

Johns Hopkins University is America’s first research university founded with the goal to encourage research and advance not only the knowledge of its students but human knowledge in general. The University was established in 1876 by Johns Hopkins, Baltimore’s greatest philanthropist who willed his $7 million estate to fund the university and the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

The University enrolls more than 26,000 full-time and part-time students throughout nine academic divisions. While Baltimore is the university’s hometown, there are campuses throughout the Baltimore-Washington D.C. area and international locations, including Bologna, Italy and Nanjing, China. Johns Hopkins is also home to the nation’s largest university affiliated research center, the Applied Physics Laboratory. The 6,500 faculty and 26,000 students’ study, teach, and learn in and across more than 260 programs regularly recognized as being among the nation’s best. JHU's undergraduate education is ranked 10th among U.S. "national universities" by U.S. News & World Report for 2018.

Samuel Wilson joins Johns Hopkins University, The Peabody Institute from University of Delaware’s College of Health Sciences, where he served as Chief Business Officer. Previously, he served as Financial Analyst 3 at Siemens Healthcare Global. Prior he held Analyst and Accounting positions with various financial services organization in Delaware including Wilmington Trust Company, PNC Global Investments and Bank of America. Samuel holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from University of Delaware, a Bachelor of Accounting from Goldey-Beacom College and a MBA in Finance from Wilmington University.

Samuel is a strategic higher education professional skilled in financial management, change management, and staff development. He has managed multi-million-dollar budgets while being recognized for strong cost control efforts and financially responsible decisions. As the Associate Dean for Finance and Administration (Divisional Business Officer), Samuel will serve as the CFO for The Peabody Institute with oversight of key administrative functions and is responsible for strategically leading, planning and organizing the administration functions of the Institute.