Since her retirement from Lesley University in 2019 where she was a Vice President and CFO for 12 years, Bernice Bradin has been a financial consultant and adviser to numerous small colleges. Most recently, she was the interim Chief Business Officer at St. Joseph’s College of Maine. In that role, she was responsible for identifying non-tuition sources of revenue, served as a member of the Leadership Team and was defacto CFO until a permanent CFO was hired.
Bernice has been a Trustee of the Tilton School, a private secondary boarding school since 2019. She is also Treasurer, Co-Chair of the Finance/Investment Committee and a member of the Executive and Audit Committees.
She began her career as a budget manager at Harvard University and was promoted to Director. Then she joined the University of Massachusetts system as Vice President for Management.
The capitalist side of her beckoned and she switched careers; for the next 25 years, Bernice explored the venture capital/ private equity world working for three different firms: Schooner Capital, Advent International and Argo Global Capital. Her last position was with Argo as a Senior Partner and one of five founding partners. Argo specialized in wireless telecom and managed $435 million.
She is a former director of sixteen companies and 3 non-profits. Bernice holds an undergraduate degree in English Literature from Cornell University and an MBA from Harvard Business School where she earned second year honors.
In her free time, she enjoys golf, power walking with her dog, wine collecting, gardening, traveling, kayaking and visiting her daughter.