Suzanne Sarka

Founder, CEO & Principal, Palio Capital, LLC and the

PALIO Impact Capital Platform™ 

 

Ms. Sarka has been structuring, trading and “building” across markets as part of large financial institutions/banks and independently in her own company and earlier co-founded hedge fund since 1988. She brings a uniquely diverse set of skills spanning taxable and tax-exempt fixed income, structured products, mortgages/CMOs/ABS, currencies & commodities, Global EMG, credit & interest rate derivatives structuring & trading, CBO/CDO’s, real estate and infrastructure, private equity, and portfolio risk management. She leverages these ‘tools’ to build across taxable, tax-exempt, public and philanthropic balance sheets for projects she believes can affect change and address policy. 

 

The PALIO Impact Capital Platform is the result of Ms. Sarka’s past twenty-two years, applying the financial toolbox she gained during her years on Wall Street to structuring and building funding solutions involving public and private equity and debt financing for projects she believed could affect change - the basis for forming Palio Capital, LLC in 2000.

 

Prior to forming Palio, Suzanne headed financial institutions for the Derivatives & Financial Products group at Societe Generale. Before this, she helped found and build the global fixed-income structured derivative products effort at Salomon Brothers as a Vice-President on Salomon’s Fixed Income Derivatives Trading Desk at age 25. Suzanne began her career at Goldman Sachs in Mortgage Trading & Finance, moving into J. Aron to help build GS’s currency & commodity structured derivatives products business (CCIP) under Tim O’Neill and Lloyd Blankfein. 

 

Ms. Sarka holds a B.A. in International Relations and Secondary Major in Economics from Stanford University