Susan Preston is the Managing Partner of SeaChange Fund, as well as Co-Manager for the
Element 8 Fund. Susan teaches in the business school at the University of Washington focusing
on entrepreneurship, finance, and investing. She has more than 25 years of investing
experience as an angel and venture investor. Susan also serves as immediate past chair and a
lead instructor for the Angel Resource Institute, a global investor and entrepreneur education
organization. Susan is also a consultant to VentureUs Fund, an early-stage investment fund
focused on PNW companies.

Susan is the author of numerous articles, white papers and books on angel financing, including
Angel Financing for Entrepreneurs, Early-stage Funding for Long-Term Success released by
Wiley Publishing in March 2007, and her first book, Angel Investment Groups, Networks and
Funds: A Guidebook to Developing the Right Angel Organization for Your Community,
published by the Kauffman Foundation and later adapted for use by the World Bank in emerging
markets.

Susan is a world-recognized expert in angel financing and angel organizations. She is a national
and international consultant and speaker on economic development, angel and venture
financing for numerous countries and NGOs including the EU, OECD, USAID, South America,
Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Australia, India and the Caribbean. She was an Entrepreneur-in-
Residence with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for several years focusing on initiatives
supporting the growth and success of women entrepreneurs and initiatives related to angel
investing and angel organizations.

Susan has held more than 40 board positions with public and privately held corporations and
has served on numerous non-profit boards. Susan spent much of her earlier career in senior
management positions in public and private companies, from general counsel to CEO. She was
also a partner in two national law-firms, and is a licensed patent attorney.
Susan is a recent recipient of the Angel Capital Association prestigious Hans Severiens Award,
given each year to an individual whose actions advance the role of angel investing, expand
entrepreneurship and benefit the angel investing industry as a whole. Susan also received
Senator Cantwell’s Women of Valor award, which was presented by then Vice President Joe
Biden.

Ms. Preston received her JD, cum laude, from Seattle University School of Law and her BS,
magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in Microbiology and Public Health from Washington State
University.