People

Imelda O. Mercado
Controller, HSS Management Comany

Ms. Mercado is directly responsible for all accounting, cash management, tax, human resource, construction escrow management and financial reporting activities for HSS Management Company and its affiliated entities. She reports directly to the President and works intimately with the firm’s longtime outside accounting firm, Deerfield, IL based Miller Cooper & Company, Ltd. Ms. Mercado is also the primary day to day liaison between HSS Management and its many existing financial lenders.

Ms. Mercado has been actively employed by HSS Management and its predecessor firms for the past 18 years, beginning as a staff accountant for HSS Real Estate in 1990 and steadily progressing to the position of Accounting Manager in 1996. In 1996, she was promoted to her present position of Controller when HSS Real Estate merged with Norcor Investments to form Newcastle Properties, LLC. Newcastle Properties operated as a leasing and management company with a portfolio of 25 shopping centers containing over 3 million square feet of space. Ms. Mercado was responsible for successfully integrating the two companies’ accounting systems as well as managing all of the accounting operations for the portfolio.

Ms. Mercado, upon immigrating to the United States in 1988, began her commercial real estate career as a bookkeeper at Citywide Realty Company in Chicago, IL. This private apartment owner managed numerous small apartment buildings containing over 1000 units in the City of Chicago. Ms. Mercado was instrumental in computerizing the accounting department and in the process, brought a majority of the third party accounting work in-house – thereby creating significant savings for the company.

Ms. Mercado has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from The Philippine Women’s University in Manila and is a member of the Illinois CPA Society, The Timberline Users Group and the International Council of Shopping Centers.