Meet the CFO

A native of Chambersburg, Pa., Wagner earned his bachelor's degree at Pennsylvania State University utilizing a $225 per month VA benefit, PHEAA and Pell grants after serving four years as a deep-sea diver in the U.S. Navy.

Wagner began his career in Pennsylvania government in 1989, working as a fiscal policy specialist for the Governor's Office of the Budget. He was promoted to executive assistant to Michael Hershock, secretary of the budget, from 1991 to 1993.

In 1993 and 1995, he was deputy secretary for administration for the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, and for six years starting in 1995, Wagner was the director of governmental relations for Pennsylvania State University. He also served one year at Penn State as special assistant to the senior vice president for finance and business.

Wagner took a leave of absence from Penn State to serve as deputy secretary of the budget for Pennsylvania where he helped develop the first two commonwealth budgets of the Rendell administration.  He went back to Penn State as the assistant corporate controller, a post he held in 2004 and 2005.

Wagner returned to government in 2005 as deputy state treasurer of investments and programs in the treasury Department headed by Robert P. Casey Jr., who was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 2006. He has also served as acting Treasurer following Casey’s departure for the Senate.

In addition to his role as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, Tony is an ordained deacon of the Catholic Church and serves at Temple’s Newman Center.