Candidate for
Board of Trustees; Santa Monica Community College District

Susanne Trimbath, Ph.D. is an experienced professional with nearly 20 years in financial services management. Her overlapping academic experience includes teaching economics and finance at New York University, Stern School of Business and New York Institute of Finance. Her research focuses on mergers and acquisitions, real estate asset investments, and emerging capital markets. Trimbath was recently named Senior Research Fellow by the High Institute for Specific Studies at Giza (Egypt).

Prior to forming STP Advisory Services, Trimbath was Senior Research Economist with Milken Institute, a Santa Monica-based think tank. Before earning her terminal degree in economics, she was Senior Advisor on a foreign aid project for KPMG, which laid the foundation for capital markets in Russia. Prior to that, she was Director in operations at Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (NY); and economic briefings Editor with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Trimbath currently serves as Technical Advisor to the California Economic Strategy Panel and Senior Advisor to Martinez & Wright Homeownership Partners, LLC, a California-based firm developing innovative solutions to housing problems.

Trimbath's comments on economics and finance appear frequently in newspapers, television and radio. She authored Mergers and Efficiency: Changes Across Time (Kluwer, 2002), which was featured at the Research Roundtable on Mergers and Efficiency, hosted by the Federal Trade Commission with the Department of Justice (Washington, D.C., December 2002). In addition, Trimbath co-authored Beyond Junk Bonds: Expanding High Yield Markets (Oxford, 2003), and co-edited The Savings and Loan Crisis (Kluwer, 2004). She is a regular contributor to academic and business publications and referees technical articles for academic journals. (Research papers are available at http://papers.ssrn.com/author=272819.)

Trimbath holds an MBA in Management from Golden Gate University (San Francisco) and received her Ph.D. in Economics from New York University. She completed her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at California State University (Hayward). Trimbath is active on the Board of Directors for charitable organizations including Friends of the Santa Monica Public Library and People in Progress. She also volunteers with Best Buddies of California.

Recent Speaking Venues:

• Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, California Chamber of Commerce, Sacramento.
• Thomson Media's Annual Black Tie Event honoring the 25 Most Powerful Women in Banking, hosted by U.S. Banker magazine, New York.
• Bank One's Annual National Homebuilders' Financial Executive Symposium, Chicago.
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Center for Corporate Citizenship, Washington, D.C.
• Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication, Los Angeles.