Anthony Guida

Education Management Corporation
Pittsburgh, PA

Tony currently serves as Senior Vice  President—External Affairs at Pittsburgh-based Education  Management Corporation (EDMC) (www.edmc.edu). EDMC’s  post-secondary institutions include The Art Institutes, Argosy  University, Brown Mackie Colleges, South University, and the Western  State College of Law. A member of EDMC’s Management Committee,  Tony’s responsibilities include oversight of regulatory affairs  and compliance, government and public affairs, and strategic development  for 107 school locations in 32 U.S. states and Canada.

Prior to joining EDMC in 2002, Tony served as the Chief Financial  Officer and General Counsel of Pennsylvania Culinary Institute from  1999. Prior to that he was an attorney with Buchanan Ingersoll, a law  firm based in Pittsburgh, being elected as a shareholder in 1994. He is  a graduate of the University of Dayton (B.S., Accounting, 1982, magna  cum laude) and the University of Cincinnati College of Law (J.D., 1986,  Law Review). He is admitted to practice law before the United States  Supreme Court and various federal and state courts and has passed the  CPA licensure examination in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Tony is a member of the Advisory Committee on Student Financial  Assistance, having been appointed by the Speaker Pro Tempore of the U.S.  House of Representatives in 2009 to serve a term that expires in  September 2012. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the  Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities from 2005  through 2011, and he currently serves as co-chair of its Federal  Legislative Affairs Committee.

Tony speaks frequently at higher education events and conferences on  issues concerning higher education policy, regulations and compliance.  He is lead author on an article entitled Higher Education’s  Gainful Employment and 90/10 Rules: Unintended “Scarlet  Letters” for Minority, Low-Income, and Other At-Risk Students that  was recently published in the Winter 2012 edition of the University of  Chicago Law Review, 79 U. Chi. L. Rev. 131 (2012), a Symposium:  Understanding Education in the United States.

Tony resides with his wife Carol and their family in Pittsburgh,  PA.