Sean Crossley Earns Albright College Award for Service

by Carey Manzolillo

Reading, PA (04/22/2024) — Sean K. Crossley, of Collegeville, Pa., was honored during an April 20, 2024 Alumni Weekend awards ceremony at Albright College, receiving the college's Mary Fry Good '49 Service to Alma Mater Award. The Mary Fry Good award is presented to Albright College alumni for outstanding service to their alma mater. Crossley is a member of the college's class of 2011.

Sean Crossley '11, Collegeville, Pa., is a seasoned product and project management professional within the financial services industry, specializing in technology modernization. He currently works within Vanguard's Community Stewardship division overseeing the product development of the company's free classroom management tool for K-12, called My Classroom Economy. This program instills basic financial responsibility and teaches the value of delayed gratification through a simulated microeconomy. Before this role, Crossley led a team responsible for infrastructure modernization for Vanguard's advice solutions enabling best in class data systems increasing resiliencies, efficiencies and cost savings to clients.

Prior to joining Vanguard, Crossley spent eight years at SEI Investments with the majority of his tenure as a project manager in the investment management division. Through this role, he managed multiple domestic and international investment initiatives including launching and closing products, increasing operational efficiencies with external vendors and internal processing teams, and implementing regulatory and client-driven changes. While at SEI, Sean served on the company's philanthropic/volunteer leadership team where he managed its volunteer engagement program resulting in an increase of 500 service hours from previous years.

Crossley has a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting, economics and finance from Albright College, an MBA from Villanova University and is certified as a professional scrum.org product owner. He also holds a certificate in nonprofit board leadership from LaSalle University.

One of Crossley's primary passions is harnessing the power of education to empower students to learn and grow. He is passionate about financial literacy and wrote his senior honors thesis about the financial literacy gap in college students and solutions that could reduce that gap. Sean also enjoys volunteering with educational nonprofits including Albright College, Alpha Sigma Phi and Hope for Kids. He recently rolled off as president of Albright's Alumni Association Board and for the past eight years, has led a group of alumni advisors to mentor the undergraduate brotherhood of Alpha Sigma Phi at Albright. He also serves on a national advisory board for Alpha Sigma Phi focusing on alumni engagement and networking initiatives and has facilitated numerous workshops, most recently on service and philanthropy.

In 2018, Crossley was recognized as an outstanding alumnus by Albright's Greek Life Office and in 2021, both he and his wife, Kat Crossley '11, were honored by Albright as distinguished honorees during National Philanthropy Day. The headquarters of Alpha Sigma Phi also recognized Crossley for distinguished service to the fraternity in 2020.

Crossley credits his passion for volunteering to the values instilled in him by his parents and during his time as a Boy Scout, where he earned the rank of Eagle Scout. Crossley is also proud to have been a Shirk Scholar at Albright, continuing Eugene Shirk's legacy of community service, leadership, strength of character and commitment to excellence.

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Sean Crossley '11, Collegeville, Pa.