Susan Wolford is managing director and head of the BMO Capital Markets Business Services and Media Group. She has been an investment banker for more than 25 years, leading a variety of financing and M&A transactions across many industry groups. For the past 15 years, she has focused on the educational services industry, working with pre-K-through-12, post-secondary and lifelong-learning companies. Before joining BMO, Wolford was co-head of the educational services group at First Union. Previously, she spent 11 years in the investment banking department of Kidder, Peabody. She has served on a number of nonprofit and publicly listed boards and is currently on the Dean's Advisory Council of Villanova University School of Business and the board of the Cancer Institute of New Jersey. Wolford holds a B.A. from Villanova and a master's in international affairs from Columbia University.