Talent

Susan Machtiger

Senior Consultant

Susan Machtiger is a specialist in strategic marketing and corporate positioning. Her most recent assignments for Murphy & Co. include the strategic analysis and recommendation of a new global corporate positioning for the merging firms, Thomson-Reuters, and a new global positioning for Fluor.

Prior to working with Murphy & Co, Susan was a Senior Partner and Global Strategic Planning Director at J. Walter Thompson, working on the Kodak, Merrill Lynch, and other client businesses. She was also Management Director on The Wall Street Journal.

As a former Senior Vice President of Young & Rubicam, Susan also spent 10 years in account management. She has handled strategic assignments with General Foods, Johnson & Johnson, Colgate-Palmolive, Andersen Consulting, and Merrill Lynch, among others. She has also led consulting assignments with American Express and Bankers Trust. Prior to business school, Susan worked as a financial analyst in Mergers and Acquisitions at Morgan Stanley.

Susan has a B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton and an MBA from Columbia University.

In addition, Susan was from 2001-2009 a Trustee of the Atlantic-Whitehall Fund complex, a division of INVESCO; and served two terms as an elected School Board member of the Bronxville Public Schools. Susan has also recently served as Vice Chair of the global Princeton Alumni Schools Committee.