Susan has over 20 years’ experience as an investment banker, entrepreneur and strategic consultant in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Montgomery Securities, as a principal at Mercantile Capital Financial Corporation, and as founder and principal at Block, Bowman & Associates, LLC. Ms. Block has worked on merger assignments across all industries was responsible for the sale of Safeway’s Liquor Barn operations by Kohberg, Kravis and Roberts, and worked in corporate planning for Safeway Foods. On the entrepreneurial side, Susan was CEO and President of a startup that went public and was later sold to Kraft for over $250 million.