AIF is an independent economic think tank focusing on institutional investment policy
About AIF

Organization

Program Directors

Susan Boyle

Susan Boyle

Senior Program Director, AIF Global and the AIF Institute
Susan is the co-program director at AIF Global with main responsibilities in managing and producing all forums. She has nearly fifteen years of experience producing a full spectrum of programs for the institutional investment community in the U.S. and globally.
 
Prior to working with AIF, Susan co-founded BAS Ventures, Inc. with Barbara Lambroza and together they curated their own symposiums as well as consulted for organizations including RFK Compass, National Association of Securities Professionals (NASP) New York chapter and the Association of Asian American Investment Managers (AAAIM). 
 
Susan holds a Bachelor in Business Administration in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin. 
Barbara Lambroza

Barbara Lambroza

Senior Program Director, AIF Global and the AIF Institute
Barbara is a Program Director at AIF Global focusing on the production and management of all U.S. and international forums. She works with the AIF team on the content and development of each program as well as the execution of all in-person and virtual events. Barbara is also the co-founder of B.A.S. Ventures Inc., a consulting firm that works with the institutional investment management community to organize educational symposiums and programs. In addition to organizing their own events, B. A.S. Ventures has also worked as the program consultant for RFK Compass and the Association of Asian American Investment Managers (AAAIM). 
 
Prior to that, Barbara was Senior Director at Information Management Network (IMN) and the President of the Special Events Divison for the Institute for International Research (IIR) where her main responsibility was producing large-scale investment conferences for public and corporate pension plans and Taft Hartley funds. She currently is a Board Member of the Tuxedo Park School and has sat on the board of the Imperial House Association in New York City. She received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Britta (Henry) Zelen

Program Director, AIF Global and the AIF Institute

Britta Henry joined the AIF team in 2023 as an Associate Program Director. Britta has her MBA from Johnson & Wales University in Event Leadership. She oversees the full lifecycle of 12–15 global conferences each year, shaping agendas, curating speakers, managing budgets and vendors.

Britta also helps lead the AIF’s Future Leaders initiative, a global community designed to support the next generation of institutional investors. Through leadership sessions, academic partnerships, and curated programming, she helps build pathways for emerging leaders to connect, learn, and lead with purpose, expanding AIF’s mission beyond events into year-round community building.

Before joining AIF, Britta spent six years at a prestigious law firm in Portland, Oregon and worked in the public sector with her local parks and recreation district on the event and programming board. 

Imogen Rose-Smith

Imogen Rose-Smith

Research Director, AIF Institute
Imogen Rose-Smith is the Research Director for the AIF Institute. She is also co-founder of Combinate Capital, a financial services firm focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion. She serves as an advisor to investment managers and asset owners on sustainable investments, business development, and communications. And is an affiliate partner of IoTask, a Boston based management consulting company focused on technology and innovation.
 
Imogen was a 2017 – 2019 fellow of the Office of the Chief Investment Officer, University of California Regents, where she worked on ESG and sustainability issues. An award-winning journalist, Imogen has over 15 years’ experience covering institutional asset management as a Senior Writer with Institutional Investor magazine. As a journalist her areas of expertise include: institutional investors, hedge funds, venture capital, impact investing, diversity and inclusion, government policy and long-term asset ownership. She is a contributing editor to the impact investment industry publication Impact Alpha, where she writes the Institutional Impact column and is a regular podcast contributor.  
 
Imogen served on the inaugural Advisory Board of Girls Who Invest, a not-for-profit focused on increasing the number of women in investment management roles. She is a former co-chair of the Impact Investment committee for High Water Women, a not for profit focused on the economic empowerment of women and girls. She is a co-founder of the Maui ESG Investment Project, an initiative to bring sustainable investment capital into Maui and diversify the Hawaii economy, and a member of the Orient Association board.

Technology and Communications

Jason Suggs

Jason Suggs

Executive Director, Technology and Communications, AIF Global and the AIF Institute
With 20+ years of experience leading successful communications, brand strategy, and technology initiatives, Jason serves as Executive Director of Technology and Communications for AIF Global and the AIF Institute, overseeing and implementing innovative technologies to support and provide added value to AIF’s forums, educational symposia, and program offerings. In addition, he provides brand, design, and communications strategy and work product across all of AIF’s initiatives.
 

Jason is the founder and CEO of Orange Reef Sustainable Business Results, providing consulting and solutions to diverse organizations, primarily in the financial, healthcare, and government spaces.  He also serves as Chief Communications Officer (CCO) for Balanced Pharma, Inc. and is the Executive Director of Brand and Technology for the National Institute of Public Finance (NIPF).  He has worked with over 20 Fortune 500 corporations, along with leading government, finance, and healthcare organizations, providing a unique blend of marketing, communications, and technology solutions.

Jason has been featured as a thought leader by the National Association of State Treasurers (NAST) and is the recipient of the 2020 Technology and Brand Management Excellence Award by the AIF Institute, as well as the Innovation Award and Treasurer’s Challenge Coin by one of the leading state treasuries in the United States.

He is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Strategic Communication from Columbia University.  His educational background also includes graduate studies at Columbia Business School and Villanova University, along with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

 

Sherry Dekker

Senior Technology and Communications Consultant, AIF Global and the AIF Institute

Sherry Dekker brings 25+ years of information technology and web development experience, and has worked with leading financial services, technology and government organizations.

Prior to joining AIF, Sherry worked with the North Carolina Department of State Treasury, providing information, services, and support to over 800,000 members and constituents.  She served as a key developer and technology trainer for Department websites, including unclaimed property, the State Health Plan, and state and local government, and supported Department-wide collaborative project team sites.

For more than 15 years, Sherry worked with Wachovia Bank as a key resource in the implementation and support of large-scale initiatives, including the Mortgage intranet, and numerous websites within the Business Technology division.  She also served as a software developer for Mortgage application software.

Sherry holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from North Carolina State University.