Staff

Claire Sussman

Events Manager

Claire Sussman joined Philanthropy Roundtable as the events manager in September 2023. After 10 years in South Carolina, Claire is returning to the Washington, D.C. area, where she began her post-graduate career booking events and managing hotel inventory, room blocks and revenue for a hotel in Arlington, Virginia. In South Carolina, she spent seven and a half years planning events and directing the catering department with Aramark at the College of Charleston. Most recently, Claire managed an event venue and planned internal events for High Wire Distilling Co. in Charleston.

In Claire’s role with Philanthropy Roundtable, she applies her prior knowledge in the vendor scope of events to continue to make Roundtable events efficient and versatile for our donor community.

Claire graduated in 2004 with a degree in communication studies from West Virginia University.