| Susan Kilsby | |
| Birth Name: | Susan R. Saltzbart |
| Nationality: | American |
| Alma Mater: | Wellesley College Yale School of Management |
| Occupation: | Banker and businesswoman |
| Chairman, Shire | |
| Boards: | Shire BBA Aviation Fortune Brands Home & Security Goldman Sachs International |
Susan R. Kilsby (nee Saltzbart, born 1958/59) is an American investment banker and businesswoman. She is the chairman of Shire.
Kilsby, a native of New Jersey, was born circa 1958/59.[1] [2] She earned a bachelor's degree in Economics from Wellesley College and a master in business administration from the Yale School of Management.[3]
Kilsby began her banking career at First Boston in the 1980s.[1] She spent most of her career as an investment banker, working for Bankers Trust, Barclays de Zoete Wedd and Credit Suisse.[4] While at Credit Suisse she is known for having advised Coca-Cola and Fortune Brands.[1]
In 2002, she became the first woman to head a mergers and acquisitions department of any major bank, and she was co-chief executive of European M&A until 2009. She gave up a part-time advisory role at Credit Suisse when she took on the role of chairing Shire.[5]
Kilsby has been on the board of Shire since September 2011 and the chairman since April 2014.[6] She became a non-executive director of BBA Aviation in April 2012,[7] Fortune Brands Home & Security in July 2015,[8] and the first female non-executive director at Goldman Sachs International in May 2016.[9]
In October 2019, Kilsby was appointed Senior Independent Director of Diageo plc in October 2019 after serving as a Non-Executive Director from 2018 and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee since 2019.[10]
Kilsby met her husband, Richard Philip Kilsby when they were both managing directors at Bankers Trust. They married in 1994.[11]