Susan Morgan has more than 25 years of experience in managing and counseling technology businesses and private companies. Susan was the co-founder and CEO of SoftView, the company that produced MacInTax, the income tax program for the Macintosh. MacInTax experienced rapid growth and achieved a position of market leadership in its segment. SoftView was subsequently acquired by ChipSoft, and then Intuit, who currently markets the software as TurboTax.

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Susan also co-founded and is currently the CEO of Equilytics, a software and services company. Equilytics’ flagship product, MergeComp, computes and models the waterfall distributions of proceeds, in the event of a merger or financing, to security holders of private companies with complex and multi-layered capitalization structures.

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In addition to her business management background, Susan has many years of experience as an attorney, including 7 years at Fenwick & West, LLP, where she specialized in venture financing, and merger and acquisition transactions for private companies.

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Additionally, Susan has taught courses at Golden Gate University and John F. Kennedy University on business law and startups.  Susan has been a Guest Lecturer for several years at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, Entrepreneurship Program (lecturing on Start-up and Corporate Transactions and Intellectual Property Protection).  She has also lectured extensively on legal issues to a variety of organizations, including Astia, the Technology Venture Corporation, Software Developers’ Forum and the East Bay Innovation Group.

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Susan graduated Magna cum Laude from the University of California at Los Angeles (“UCLA”), where she received her Bachelor’s degree in Quantitative Psychology; and then went on to receive a Master’s degree in Cognitive Psychology at UCLA.  Susan subsequently graduated from Santa Clara University School of Law (J.D.), where she was awarded an Emory Law Scholarship and served as Vice-President and a Director of the Santa Clara University Intellectual Property Association.  Susan is a member of the California Bar.