Primary Instructor

Dr. Susan Fleming Cabrera

Dr. Susan Fleming Cabrera lectures frequently to executives and university students in the area of corporate finance, insurance investing, and valuation, bridging the gap between theory and practice. Currently, Susan is a lecturer at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management.

In her teaching, she draws upon knowledge developed as a private equity investor, extensive know-how at executing structured and complex transactions, the broad perspective of past and present board of director memberships, and as a manager, mentor and educator of investment professionals and college students alike.

In addition to teaching, Susan is a member of the Board of Directors of Virtus Investment Partners, Inc., a publicly traded asset management company, and Hanover Partners, L.P., an activist equity hedge fund.  Susan earned a PhD in Management from Cornell University's Johnson School of Management. Until 2004, Ms. Cabrera was a Partner with Capital Z Partners, L.P., a $1.85 billion private equity fund. Prior to joining Capital Z's predecessor fund in 1994, she was a professional in the M&A Financial Services Group at Morgan Stanley.

Guest Instructor

Eric Berg, Managing Director, Barclay's Capital