Arturo brings more than thirty years of experience in the financial sector. His background is wide and diverse and spreads over many areas such as asset management, fixed income, derivatives, risk management, securitization, financial litigation, and regulation. Before switching to the financial arena, he worked as a scientist doing research on applied mathematics and mechanical engineering-related problems.
Currently, he divides his time between New York and Chile. In Chile, he is a Senior Research Associate at Clapes-UC, a public policy center affiliated with the Catholic University of Chile (PUC). He is also part of the investment committee (endowment) of Adolfo Ibanez University (a private university based in Santiago), CIO (a Chilean investment advisory firm), and SCM (a non-profit). In the U.S., he is a member of the board of Pasadena Private Lending, a direct lending firm located in California.
He has taught at Columbia University in New York (Business School), the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (School of Engineering), and the University of Chile.
He served three years as a member and President of the Chilean Sovereign Fund investment committee (US$ 25 billion); and four years as a member of the Advisory Board of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Also, he participated in the Financial Regulation Reform Commission that was appointed by the Chilean Minister of Finance (2010-2011).
As a consultant, he has acted as an advisor to government entities and private firms in the United States, Asia, and Chile. He has written numerous academic articles (refereed papers) on topics related to finance, portfolio management, art markets, applied mathematics, and engineering. Many of his opinion pieces have been published by the Financial Times.
As a result of the subprime financial crisis, he was invited twice to testify, as expert witness, by the U.S. Senate. He has also been consulted by the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Treasury, and the Connecticut State Insurance Commissioner.
Adjunct Professor of accounting and real estate at UCLA Anderson School of Management since 1995
Named as one of the top ten most popular business professors by Bloomberg BusinessWeek,
and one of the 20 most influential professors alive today by “Top Business Degrees.”
An eight-time winner of the MBA Teaching Excellence Award, and a seven-time winner of the FEMBA
Teaching
Excellence Award by MBA students
Mr. Sussman is a founding partner of Clear Capital, LLC, a 20+ year old private equity real estate
investment company based in Los Angeles.
Clear Capital invests in multifamily properties across the Sunbelt and Mountain regions of the US
areas
with value-add investment strategies.
Company currently owns approximately 5,000 multi-family units, including Aspire branded communities,
and has approximately $1 billion under management
A member of the Board of Trustees and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Causeway Capital’s group of
mutual funds
which collectively have more than $15 billions in assets
A member of Board of Directors of three non-profit organization: Jewish Family Services, UCLA
Hillel,
and Pacific Charter School Development
A licensed CPA in California
