Avec O’Brien is the Chief Financial Officer at Walker-Miller Energy Services. Previously, Avec was the US & Mexico Controller for Mastronardi Produce. Before that, she was the Chief Financial Officer of the Detroit Science Center. Avec also worked as audit manager at Deloitte & Touche, LLP., as office manager at Heidrick & Struggles, and as senior accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Mexico City. Simultaneously, Avec was an associate professor at the MBA program of the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. Avec serves as a board member and as a volunteer of several Detroit-area nonprofits.
Avec earned her MBA with distinction from the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business, and her Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Public Accounting, from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. Avec is a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Global Management Accountant.
Avec currently serves as board member in the National Board of Financial Executives International (FEI) and is the Immediate Past President of the FEI Detroit chapter. She serves on the Ascension Michigan Ministry Market board and on its Finance Committee. She also serves on the Southwest Solutions board. She is a Council Member at the Archdiocese of Detroit’s Catholic Funeral and Cemetery Services. She is the founding president of the Michigan chapter of the Association of Latino Professionals for America (ALPFA). She is a graduate of Leadership Detroit (LD XXXIII).
Avec has been recognized as Woman of ALPFA/Woman of the Year by the Association of Latino Professionals for America, and as Most Valuable Professional by Corp! Magazine.
Avec lives in Novi, Michigan, with her husband and two sons.