SUZANNA SHANK
President & CEO, Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC
Suzanne Shank is Co-Founder, President, & CEO of Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC (SWS), a full-service investment banking firm offering debt and equity origination services to a wide range of Fortune 500 companies and debt underwriting for municipal clients nationally. A 35-year veteran of the financial services industry, Ms. Shank has positioned the firm to hold the distinction of being the top-ranked women and minority-owned investment banking firm in the country. Siebert Williams Shank was awarded the Inaugural Diversity and Inclusion House of the Year Award by the International Financing Review in London in April 2022.
Ms. Shank has been recognized for her leadership in the financial services industry by Forbes, Investopedia, Crain’s New York, U.S. Banker Magazine, Black Enterprise, Essence Magazine, Savoy Magazine, and The Bond Buyer, among others. Ms. Shank has won numerous awards and honors throughout her career and has also been named to the inaugural Bond Buyer Hall of Fame, Inc. Magazine’s 2024 Female Founders 250 List, and USA Today’s Georgia Women of the Century.
Ms. Shank was selected by the Wharton School of Business from among 100,000 graduates as one of its “125 Influential People and Ideas” and was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
She also serves on the boards of the Kresge Foundation, the Skillman Foundation, and the Spelman College Board of Trustees, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Women’s Forum, and the Links, Incorporated.
Ms. Shank is a graduate of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania with a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance, and the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering.