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Susan is an expert in gender bias, entrepreneurship, corporate finance, insurance and mergers and acquisitions. She also has extensive board experience (public, private and non-profit) and is an active angel investor.Susan began her career on Wall Street, where over a period of twelve years she held various positions in the investment community, including that of Analyst at Morgan Stanley & Co. and Partner at Capital Z Financial Services Partners, a $1.85B private equity fund. After retiring from Wall Street in 2003, Susan began work as an educator, teaching executives, investment professionals, MBAs and undergraduates in the areas of corporate finance, insurance, valuation, and gender bias. She also enrolled at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management to pursue a Ph.D. in Management where her research focused on better understanding the factors contributing to a dearth of women in leadership positions in U.S. society. In addition, Susan helped to found a start-up company in Ithaca, NY; has previously served on the board of directors of five publicly traded insurance and reinsurance companies, two private companies and three non-profit organizations; and currently serves on the board of RLI Corp., a publicly traded specialty insurer and Virtus Investment Partners, Inc., a publicly traded asset management firm. She is also a frequent speaker on issues of gender bias and entrepreneurship, having spoken to organizations such as TEDx Cornell, Facebook, the Association of Professional Insurance Women, the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation, CEB, Transatlantic Reinsurance, Selective Insurance, Hershey Entertainment and Resorts, and The Venetian/Palazzo/Las Vegas Sands Corporation.Specialties: acquisitions, asset management, due diligence, equities, executive management, corporate finance, financial modeling, insurance, negotiation, networking, strategic planning, valuation,

Listed skills include Financial Modeling, Mergers And Acquisitions, Valuation, Entrepreneurship, and 16 others.