Susan Hassan is an angel investor, strategic advisor, and philanthropist. Throughout her career, Susan has served as a trusted partner and strategic advisor to CEOs, boards of directors, and entrepreneurs building some of the most notable companies in the consumer products, financial services, energy, and technology sectors. She brings together deep transactional M&A expertise, coupled with extensive private equity and venture capital investment experience. Susan was formerly a partner with Valor Equity Partners, a private equity firm with over $4 billion under management, focusing on tech-enabled growth companies. Prior to joining Valor, Susan was a corporate partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. During her nearly 20-year career with Skadden, she specialized in mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and strategic advice matters for Fortune 500, middlemarket, emerging growth, and family-controlled companies. Susan currently serves as Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of CARE. She has served on numerous not-for-profit boards including The Women’s Sports Foundation, The Clean Energy Trust, Equality Now, and The Chicago Public Library. Susan is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and is a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. She received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. She is fluent in Arabic.