Ryan Caster

Ryan currently serves as the outsourced Chief Financial Officer at Hilbert College, a position he has held since July 2022, a position he previously held between July 2019 and October 2019.  Ryan is a Director at Freed Maxick CPAs, P.C. and leads their Higher Education practice.  Prior to re-joining Hilbert College, Ryan served as the outsourced Chief Financial Officer for Concordia College (Bronxville, NY) from December 2019 through July 2022. 

Ryan joined Freed Maxick in July 2011.  Prior to joining Freed Maxick, Ryan was a Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Buffalo, NY.  Ryan has worked with a number of institutions of higher education, and other large not-for-profit organizations over the course of his career.  Over the course of his career, he has extensive experience performing external audits, leading a fully outsourced internal audit department for a large technological research university, performing business office and business process reviews and serving in fully outsourced C-suite positions.

Ryan is active in the local Western New York community.  He currently serves as the Treasurer of the Board of Directors at Peaceprints of WNY (Buffalo, NY), an organization he has been involved with since 2011.  Ryan also serves as the Treasurer of the Board of Directors at Eugenio Maria de Hostos Charter School (Rochester, NY).