Chief Operating Officer
Mary Berst serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Advocate Capital, Inc. Ms. Berst joined the team in August 2015 as the Director of Finance and Administration. She manages the Accounting team that provides training and support to clients for case expense and working capital funding and payments through its proprietary software application, AdvoTrac®. In addition, she manages the Operations team that provides support to all the Advocate Capital, Inc. employees, and is an active member of the management team.
Prior to working for Advocate Capital, Inc., Ms. Berst worked for 24 years in the automotive industry with Nissan North America, Inc. Teams under her leadership provided business planning, general accounting, and information systems support to U.S. manufacturing, Brazil marketing, and sales operations and North American information systems security and administration.
Ms. Berst holds a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree in Accounting conferred by Western Kentucky University.