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- Susan Webb
Susan Webb
Susan is the Co-Founder and President/CIO of Appomattox. In this capacity, she is a member of the Investment Committee responsible for identifying and evaluating managers as well as managing portfolios. Appomattox’s core business is to serve as an Out-Sourced CIO, allocating across strategies
to bespoke portfolios for a variety of endowments, foundations and pension clients. Additionally, it is a leader in identifying small and emerging managers across all strategies. This capability has allowed Appomattox to achieve both diversity of return streams and thought in the portfolios it customizes.
Diversity is an important element of portfolio diversification and as such an important component in constructing a resilient portfolio.
Prior to founding Appomattox, Susan established and ran First Atlas Capital, Inc., the SEC Registered Advisor of Atlas Capital, a multi-billion-dollar global fund of hedge fund managers. She was a member of the Global Investment Committee as well as responsible for the launch and running of a Private Equity Seeding Platform for Emerging Hedge Fund Managers.
Prior to Atlas, Susan spent almost 20 years on Wall Street developing an expertise in trading and structuring of derivatives. Ms. Webb began her career at Irving Trust in 1984 where she completed the credit analyst program and worked in loan work outs. She left after two years and joined trading desks for five years each at Citibank, Paribas Capital Markets and CIBC. While there she either joined, or set up and ran, derivative trading groups including interest rate, currency, equity, credit and hedge fund structuring. In 2000, she joined Caisse des Dépôts as a Managing Director and established their credit derivative and synthetic CLO and hedge fund structuring business in the US. She has 18 years of direct experience managing diverse multi-strategy portfolios with a strong emphasis on alternative investments and other investment strategies. She received a BA from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia.
Susan Webb is a board member for GTI Capital Group, an investment firm focused on opportunities in India. She does not receive compensation in connection with GTI Capital Group or any business activity outside of Appomattox. Ms. Webb is on the board of High Water Women, a non-profit foundation
that encourages financial education of women and youth. She is also on the advisory board of Catalyst Financial Partners, a group that promotes small and emerging managers in the financial industry. Susan is an Elder, and a former head of stewardship at the Brick Church.