For several years, investment and finance professional Sharath Sury has lent his knowledge and expertise to the world of academia. Drawing from his experience as a wealth manager and analyst in the private sector, Sharath Sury brings an intimate familiarity with financial and capital markets systems to his work as the Dean’s Executive Professor of Finance at Santa Clara University, Adjunct Professor of Finance at DePaul University in Chicago, and Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of California. Prior to his immersion in teaching and research, Sharath Sury founded and led S4 Capital in Chicago, managing the considerable assets of some of the most well known, high profile, and affluent families in America. Through this work, Sharath Sury gained attention from the Bloomberg Wealth Manager Survey, Financial Advisor Magazine, and Wealth Manager Magazine, each of which ranked S4 Capital’s wealth management business highly. Sharath Sury had founded S4 Capital’s predecessor, Chicago Analytic Capital Management LLC (CACM), during which time he made Crain’s Chicago Business list of “40 Under 40” in 2003. Sharath Sury began his investment career at Goldman Sachs & Co., working his way up from the position of Associate to Vice President of the firm’s elite wealth management division. An alumnus of the University of Chicago, Sharath Sury earned his Master of Business Administration (MBA with High Honors) in Finance and Statistics from its Graduate School of Business and was invited into the prestigious Beta Gamma Sigma honor society. Sharath Sury received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California, where he served as an assistant teacher in macroeconomic theory and statistical analysis, was accepted into Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated with Highest Honors. A self-taught computer expert in his youth, Sharath Sury spent his teens working both for Lockheed, Missiles & Space Co. in its research and development programs related to then President Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars missile defense initiative (the Strategic Defense Initiative). Today, Sharath Sury works in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago. ...

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A graduate of New Trier West High School near Chicago, Illinois (Class of 1969), Susan Sachs earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in American Studies and Environmental Education from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor after spending her junior year abroad at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Upon graduation in 1973, Susan Sachs began her journalism career at the State Journal-Register newspaper in Springfield, Illinois, where she covered state politics and the Illinois State Legislature. Susan Sachs was awarded a Congressional Fellowship in 1976 from the American Political Science Association and moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked as an investigator on nursing home fraud for a U.S. Senate committee. Following the fellowship, Susan Sachs worked for The Miami Herald where she headed the bureau in Key West and covered Miami-Dade County government. In 1983, Susan Sachs was awarded a mid-career Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in business journalism to study economics, business, and law at Columbia University in New York. Upon returning to The Miami Herald, Susan Sachs wrote about corruption and fraud as a member of the newspaper's award-winning investigative team. With two colleagues, Susan Sachs spent six months investigating drug smuggling in the Florida Keys and the resulting series, "Key West: Smugglers' Island," won numerous state and national journalism awards and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. After several years as a freelance journalist in Europe, Susan Sachs joined Newsday where she covered real estate developers in New York and served as the newspaper's Bureau Chief in the Middle East and in Russia. In 1998, Susan Sachs moved to The New York Times covering immigration and reporting international affairs as the Times bureau chief in Cairo, Baghdad, and Istanbul. Now based in Paris, France, Susan Sachs is a freelance correspondent for The Globe and Mail of Canada and teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism of the Institute for Political Studies (Sciences Po). ...

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