Our Team
Advocate’s Featured Employee

Meet Shannon
Advocate’s Featured Employee
“One of the things I love about the Advocate culture is they provide growth opportunities for our team. I started managing an office, and as I grew, was offered the opportunity to manage a team across the company. Every day brings new opportunities”
Advocate is a super place to launch your career. To learn more about what makes it a great place to work,
ADVOCATE’S LEADERSHIP TEAM

Doug Cooper
CEO, Co-Founder
Doug Cooper started his career at Enterprise Rent-A-Car, where he learned about empowering and enabling sales leadership. He approaches challenges one step at a time, always moving forward.
He and Nick Wallace started Advocate Construction, where they leveraged these skills and focused on extending empowerment to customer service in residential roofing and have never looked back.

Nick Wallace
President, Co-Founder
Nick Wallace met Doug Cooper at Enterprise Rent-A-Car, they forged a friendship that has built a national roofing leader in Advocate Construction. He is always looking forward to evaluating entrepreneurial opportunities.
At Advocate Construction, Nick is passionate about ensuring everyone has an opportunity to grow and be successful. He and Doug pride themselves on being accessible to everyone, ensuring a great team environment.

Dale Bianco
CFO

Kurt Zitzner
Corporate VP

Kim Nichols
VP People Operations

Mike Aleckson
VP – Finance

Tom Bastian
VP Sales North

Lindsay DiTore
VP Sales South

Rich DiTore
VP Sales South

Scott Mueller
Director of Marketing

Roger Stortz
Sales Director
Chicago & Detroit

Jordan Greenberg
Sales Director
Chicago & Denver

Anthony Eaton
Sales Director
St. Louis

Jeff Quilling
Sales Director
Milwaukee

Brian Lewis
General Counsel

Jed Nieder
Director of Production

Chris Harrison
Safety and Loss Control Manager

Meghan Bueker
Fleet Manager

Kiersten Perry
Director of Meetings

Marilyn Thakur
Director-Human Resources

Brandon Wilson

Eric Grapengeter
Director of IT

Shannon Morton
Admin & Culture Manager

Julye Jenkins

Susan Rios

Emily Alsing
Talent Acquisition Manager