Anthony P. Scardino
Chief Financial Officer

Anthony (Tony) Scardino is currently the Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Intellectual Property and Acting Deputy Director for the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).   In this role, he serves as the Chief Operating Officer, responsible for all Agency operations and managing close to 13,000 employees.  Prior to this recent change in responsibilities, he served as the Chief Financial Officer at USPTO and the principal advisor to the USPTO Director in leading and improving the financial management, accounting, budgeting, fee setting, revenue forecasting, and organizational performance systems of the agency.  In this role, Tony oversees an annual budget that exceeds $3 billion.  Prior to USPTO, Tony served in several leadership positions at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), including acting CFO, acting Deputy CFO, and the Budget Director.  In these capacities, he oversaw an annual budget of more than $45 billion, serving as a key advisor to the Secretary of HUD and acting as a principal liaison with congressional appropriators and the White House Office of Management and Budget. His prior Federal experience includes time at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Federal Election Commission, and Broadcasting Board of Governors, where he successfully implemented a new accounting and payroll system in a fiscally-constrained environment.  Additionally, Tony has spent time with two consulting firms, supporting federal finance challenges, and served as the Deputy CFO at a federally funded grantee of the US Government.

In 2014, Tony was the recipient of the Meritorious Presidential Rank Award—an award given annually by the President to no more than 5 percent of the federal government’s Senior Executive Service in recognition of “sustained extraordinary accomplishment” throughout their executive tenure. He was also the recipient of the Frank Greathouse National Leadership Award in 2017, given by the Association of Government Accountants.  Tony was also elected as a lifelong Fellow into the National Academy of Public Administration in November 2017.

Tony has a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the State University of New York at Geneseo and a Master of Public Administration from the State University of New York at Albany.  As a life-long learner, Tony has attained a Certified Government Financial Management (CGFM) certification, is a graduate of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Senior Managers in Government program, and also a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at the University Of Pennsylvania Wharton School Of Business.