June 08, 2022

Scripps Research welcomes financial leaders Caroline Moon and Sherray McCloud

June 08, 2022

LA JOLLA, CA Scripps Research is pleased to announce that Caroline Moon has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer and Sherray McCloud has been appointed Controller/Director of Accounting at Scripps Research. Both will help to oversee the strong financial health of the organization, which reported record funding for the fiscal year 2021.

We are excited to welcome our two outstanding new colleagues in our Finance department, who each bring diverse, much-needed skills and experience, as well as a passion for supporting the great science that we do at Scripps Research, says Matt Tremblay, PhD, Chief Operating Officer.

Moon brings a broad and deep skill set in financial strategy and operations, as well as digital transformation. She was most recently the Head of Strategic Finance at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she gained an intimate understanding of this top biomedical research institute.

Prior to the Broad, she was a partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, where she provided strategic guidance and finance best practices to the executive leadership teams at the firm's portfolio companies, having served as CFO to a number of early- to growth-stage technology companies before joining the firm. Overall, Moon has more than 25 years of finance leadership experience in the technology sector. She is a graduate of Cornell University.

McCloud has more than 15 years of financial reporting, strategy and talent management expertise. Her skills include an in-depth knowledge of U.S. GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles); budgeting, forecasting and KPI (key performance indicator) analysis; and external audit coordination and tax review.

Most recently, she was Director of Finance at Palomar Health, the largest healthcare district in California. She earned her bachelor's degree in Accounting at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and her MBA at Delaware Valley University.

Jared Machado will continue to serve in the important role of Chief Accounting Officer, working closely with Moon and McCloud.

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