Mary A. Strother

Ms. Mary A.
Strother is Vice President-Investor Relations at Athenian Venture Partners.
She joined the Athenian team in 2007.
Previously, her professional career spanned over 15 years in finance, healthcare, and higher education.
She has thirteen years of financial sales and marketing experience and ten years of institutional and high-net-worth-individual Investor Relations experience in a Fortune 100 company and with a sizeable university foundation endowment.
From 2001-2007, Ms. Strother served as an assistant dean and senior director in the College of Business at Ohio University.
From 1997-2001, she was a regionally-recognized commercial sales professional for Aetna, a Fortune 50 HMO.
From 1992-1997,she served as an Asst.
Vice President and Trust Officer for First Commerce Corporation, a NYSE-traded multi-bank holding company, with experience on both the commercial and the investment side of the Bank, specializing in marketing strategy.
In addition, Ms. Strother has been directly involved in the local community with consulting to early stage businesses with patented IP, leading broad go to market efforts, as well as seeking and negotiating deal terms with Angel Investors.
She has published and won awards in the fields of commercial banking, finance, and sales.
Ms. Strother received a BA in International Politics and English Literature from the University of Mississippi., attended the University of Mississippi School of Law, and received an MBA with an emphasis in Strategic Management and Marketing from the University of New Orleans in 1992.