Susan Kish is a senior executive with extensive experience building businesses in financial services, renewable energy, and media.

She is a founding director of the Energy Venture Forum, which established and produces the European Energy Venture Fair in Zurich. She is an independent Director and Advisor on several boards, including The Foundation Center, Finance for Resilience (FiRE), InsideClimate News, the SwissNex Science Consulate and OneMonth, an online education platform.

Most recently, Susan established the Cross Platform Initiatives team at Bloomberg LP. She was responsible for a portfolio of mandates to innovate, coordinate, and integrate across the media, data and analytical platforms and publications of Bloomberg worldwide. Susan also served as Director of Knowledge Services at New Energy Finance, where she initiated the BNEF Future of Energy Summit in 2008.

Prior to BNEF, Susan founded First Tuesday Zurich in 1999. The think tank supported the development of thought leader networks and innovative knowledge sharing in areas such as sustainable energy, emerging technologies, and financial services. After First Tuesday Zurich was acquired in 2006 by the professional online network XING, she became XING’s Head of Network and Community Practice. Susan started her career as a banker at UBS and Chase.