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U.S. Chamber
CEO Tom
Donohue (left)
and President
Suzanne Clark
(right) on the
roof top of the
U.S. Chamber of
Commerce

President, U.S. Chamber of Commerce recognized by the Inc500 as the 135th fastest
growing private company in 2012. PRG became
Suzanne Clark is President of the US Chamber a brand leader in the field of policy research
of Commerce, the largest business federation in and analysis for institutional investors –
the world. connecting “Washington to Wall Street;” and,
the firm was sold to a larger macro research
Ms. Clark focuses on strategy, government organization where she is a non-executive
relations and market innovation working in partner. As a seasoned business owner, Ms. Clark
support of its more than 3 million member remains passionate about the need to create an
companies internationally. She leads a wide environment where companies can innovate,
range of policy and operational initiatives at grow and flourish.
the quarter billion dollar organization, and was
the first Senior Executive Vice President in the In 2007, Clark was named President of the
institution’s 104-year history. National Journal Group (NJG), a premier
provider of information, news and analysis for
Prior to re-joining the US Chamber in 2014, Washington’s political and policy communities.
where she had previously served as Chief NJG is an arm of Atlantic Media Company, and
Operating Officer, Clark acquired and led a for the next three years Clark led NJG’s 6 distinct
prominent financial information boutique – print, online, and event businesses and guided an
Potomac Research Group (PRG) – which was evolution from long form journalism to cutting
edge digital and mobile media, with the result
that her group produced record-level profits and
received multiple journalism awards.

Clark sits on the Board of two public
companies – AGCO, a Fortune 500 global leader
in the design, manufacture and distribution
of agricultural equipment, and TransUnion, a
provider of global risk and credit information.

She is also a member of the Board of So Others
Might Eat, serving the poor and homeless in
the nation’s capital, and St. Patrick’s Episcopal
Day School. She is the former President of the
International Women’s Forum (Washington
Chapter), a global group of leading women in
business, law, government, technology and the
arts. Clark was named one of Washingtonian
Magazine’s “40 Under 40: Young Washingtonians
to Watch,” and later, one of the magazine’s “100
Most Powerful Women in Washington.”

Ms. Clark earned a BA, magna cum laude, and
an MBA from Georgetown University, and lives in
Virginia with her husband and their daughter.■

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