Susanne Lyons ’79

Healdsburg, CA

Susanne D. Lyons is the former Chair of the US Olympic & Paralympic Committee. She served on the Board of the USOPC from 2010–2022, and also served as its Interim Chief Executive Officer from March through August 2018. She currently sits on the Executive Board of Pan Am Sports, organizing the Pan American Games. She is also an at-large member of the US Olympic and Paralympic Endowment. Prior to her retirement in 2007, she was a senior executive who held top marketing and general management roles at some of the largest financial services companies in America. Susanne has served on a variety of public, private, not-for-profit and advisory boards.

Susanne was the Chief Marketing Officer for Visa USA, where she was responsible for all aspects of brand, advertising and marketing services for the world’s most successful payments company. In her ten-year career at Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., she held various marketing and general management positions, including Enterprise President of Retail Client Services, where she was responsible for 4000 customer service employees. She also served as Chief Marketing Officer. Previously, Susanne spent ten years at Fidelity Investments, where she held senior positions in marketing, product development and business strategy.

She has served on the Boards of Cnet, Gain Capital and Hercules Capital, and currently serves on the fiduciary Board of Vassar College. She is President Emeritus of the board of Wildcare, a not-for-profit organization.

Ms. Lyons received her undergraduate degree from Vassar College and received her Masters in Business Administration from Boston University. She resides in the San Francisco and Sonoma with her husband, Jeff.