Susanne Trimbath

Susanne Trimbath (1955-) was born in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, the granddaughter of Sicilian and Hungarian immigrants. She left Pennsylvania in 1977 to work and finish her college education in California. Susanne earned the Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees while working full time at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and the Pacific Stock Exchange. She worked in financial services operations for more than twenty years before leaving Depository Trust Company to complete her education at New York University by earning the Ph.D. in economics at age 44. In 1999, she won the prestigious Milken Institute Award for Distinguished Economic Research in Capital Studies. Her first book, "Mergers and Efficiency," was recognized by the Federal Trade Commission as the centerpiece for a research roundtable in 2002.