Sue Meirs is COO for Equity and Funds Structured Markets Sales in the Americas, overseeing all strategy, finance and regulatory change requirements for the department. She is also responsible for staff development, with a focus on junior talent. Sue assumed her current role, based in New York, in January 2013.

Prior to this role, Sue was a senior sales person in EFS Sales, Americas, for eight years, covering a wide range of institutional clients including hedge funds, insurance companies and private banks. She joined Barclays in 2005.

Sue is an active member of WiN, Barclays’ employee women’s network, in the Americas, and also has served as co-head of Reach, Barclays’ employee disability network, since 2012.

Sue holds an ScB in Engineering from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.