Qualifications

Susan Didriksen is a licensed, insured, and bonded California Professional Fiduciary, Accredited Investment Fiduciary ®. 

Susan brings over 15 years of financial and accounting experience including positions with JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs in operations and fixed income capital markets; treasury, financial planning and analysis roles for Case Corporation and Whirlpool, and a divisional CFO position for Teledyne Technologies. Additionally, she has provided management oversight for GenCorp's $1.3 billion pension fund and sat on the company's Benefits Management Committee. In these roles, Susan has overseen numerous acquisition integrations, presented capital expansion projects and business valuations to Fortune 1000 and 500 boards of directors and prepared and delivered investor presentations.

Susan has been an investor in California and Midwestern real estate over the past 10 years, actively owning and managing over 40 residential and commercial units.

Susan graduated Magna Cum Laude from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service with a degree in Economics and earned the Phi Beta Kappa designation. She also holds an MBA from Georgetown's McDonough School of Business, where she received the Andersen Consulting academic scholarship and completed the honors program in International Business.

She is currently an adjunct professor of Accounting at Folsom Lake College with specialties in Intermediate Accounting, Auditing and Cost Accounting. She also teaches Finance for University of Phoenix and for Ashford University.

Susan has sat on the board of Linkage to Education, a Sacramento non-profit providing educational opportunities for local foster youth and is currently the Treasurer of the Sacramento Valley Bankruptcy Forum.