Susan is an accomplished CEO, Entrepreneur, Business Development and Marketing/Communications Executive with a broad and unique experience in growing organizations and products to meet market needs, in developing relationships and liaising cross-culturally and internationally with a diverse audience of customers, partners, corporations, governmental and non-profit organizations, and in managing teams on complex business projects in highly contrasted, international environments, from Global 1000 to start-up companies in the mobile wireless, media technology, enterprise software, ecommerce and consumer goods sectors.

Susan graduated with Honors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in economic history, a Masters Degree in Economic History from Johns Hopkins University and a Masters degree in Business Administration from The Wharton School.

She started her career at General Mills before moving to Paris, where she held senior management positions at Cartier International and Bausch & Lomb (Ray-Ban). She then moved into the technology sector, first taking a French internet start-up to second-round financing (Chateaux and Country), then consulting with a UK-funded firm, Virtual European Office. In 2002, she founded Clear-Day, an international business accelerator working for a select portfolio of companies such as Nokia and a European private equity firm.

Moving back to Palo Alto, Susan assumed the role of CEO for the SDForum (sdforum.org), Silicon Valley's largest and oldest high-tech non-profit founded by technologists and entrepreneurs dedicated to education and creating relationships within the technology community. The organization reaches over 15,000 technology professionals annually and has long-standing relationships with multinationals such as IBM, Microsoft, SAP and Sun Microsystems. SDForum also has support from the city of San José and other actors in the entrepreneurial ecosystem (VC firms, angel investors, banks, law firms, accounting firms...).

Often cited in the media, Susan is a frequent speaker at business schools and conferences in Europe and the U.S.