Maureen Casey serves as Special Advisor to the D’Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University. She recently retired from her role as the IVMF’s Chief Operating Officer; a role she held for just over ten years. As COO, Casey was responsible for all aspects of the Institute’s daily operations, personnel, financial, and other related activities. As a member of the leadership team, Casey worked to guide and support the organization’s programs and services as well as its research, policy, and evaluation activities. In addition to representing the organization at public and private events as a keynote, panelist, and advocate, she also played a key role in managing IVMF’s relationships with various stakeholders, including its public and private funders. Casey has been instrumental in helping to grow the Institute and positioning it to be a national leader in serving and supporting the military-connected community post service.

Before joining the IVMF, Casey spent more than 25 years working in both the public and private sectors. Prior to taking on the leadership role at the IVMF, where she was also a member of the University’s Leadership Team, she led JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s efforts to develop and implement a comprehensive, firm-wide strategy to assist members of the military, veterans, and their families. As Managing Director, Casey oversaw the firm’s Office of Military and Veterans Affairs, which was responsible for, among other things, the 100,000 Jobs Mission – a commitment with other companies to hire 100,000 veterans in ten years. Casey, along with others, delivered on that goal seven years ahead of schedule, prompting a renaming of the mission to the Veterans Job Mission. Under her leadership, the Mission grew to nearly 200 companies and hired more than 240,000 veterans in less than three years. She also drove the Chase Home Awards program – a commitment by the firm to award 1,000 mortgage-free homes to deserving veterans through its nonprofit partners. Before leaving the firm, more than 750 homes were awarded. Through her work, JPMorgan Chase was positioned as a national leader in supporting veterans and their families.

Prior to joining JPMorgan Chase, Casey was a Senior Vice President with a global consulting firm; work that took her to a dozen different countries, advising government and corporate leaders on public safety and crisis management issues. From 1997 to 2002, she was employed with the New York City Police Department (NYPD), initially as Counsel to the First Deputy Commissioner and then as the NYPD’s Deputy Commissioner for Policy and Planning. During her tenure, among other things, she was an integral part of the team leading the City’s response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Unprecedented at the time, it was her work overseeing the DNA analysis of more than 16,000 rape kits stored in NYPD Property Clerk freezers that positioned the NYPD as a leader in identifying remains in mass fatality events during and post 9/11. Prior to assuming a leadership role at the NYPD, Casey spent more than 12 years working in New York State’s criminal justice system, assuming positions with increasing responsibility and leadership including simultaneously serving as General Counsel to the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services, and as Counsel to the Governor’s Director of Criminal Justice. While serving in the latter role, Casey oversaw the passage and implementation of (at the time) landmark legislation, to include NYS’s convicted offender DNA databank and laboratory accreditation law and its Sex Offender Registry law.

Casey received her J.D. from SUNY Buffalo’s School of Law and a Bachelor of Science, Magna Cum Laude, from SUNY’s Brockport University. She was admitted to practice law in 1989. Casey is also the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions throughout her career, including Syracuse University Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence (outstanding contributions to the student experience and University initiatives), Irish Echo’s 2024 Heroes of Irish America, 2022’s Remarkable Woman of Central NY (from WSYR-TV and Nexstar Media Group), the 2017 C200 Luminary Award – Skills to Succeed Champion (for developing a successful program of scale to help people develop skills to build a business), NYPD Police Women’s Endowment Association’s Police Woman of the Year, the Irish Voice Dreamer of Dreams award and the NYS Parole Emerald Society Irish Woman of the Year.