Susan R McFarland

Susan R. McFarland joined Fannie Mae, a Fortune 100 Company, in 2011 as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Her responsibilities included financial management across the enterprise, including financial reporting and accounting, and for ensuring the highest standards of financial integrity. Susan led a 1,000 person team responsible for financial planning and analysis including resource allocation, modeling and analytics, the controller’s office, strategic analytics & transformation, procurement, and economic and strategic research. She also played a leading role in managing Fannie Mae’s relationships with government and regulatory entities along with other financial services relationships. During her tenure at Fannie Mae the enterprise’s financial performance improved significantly going from an annual net operating loss of $17 billion to an annual net operating profit of $17 billion. Prior to joining Fannie Mae, Susan was with Capital One Financial Corporation where she led a 500 person team responsible for accounting, tax, procurement, and planning and helped transform a mono-line credit card company into a diversified financial services corporation. She also served as Executive Vice President, Finance and Principal Accounting Officer, Executive Vice President and Controller, Chief Financial Officer-Capital One Bank and Chief Financial Officer-Infrastructure Finance. Before joining Capital One, Susan was with Bank One Corporation for more than 15 years serving as CFO for a variety of groups and divisions including the Retail Bank. She began her career as a senior auditor at Deloitte & Touche. Susan currently serves on the board of Exeter Financial Corporation and chairs the Audit & Risk Committee. She has also been active on several non-profit boards including the National Capital Area Texas A&M Club, the Heart of Virginia Boy Scout Council where she served as Treasurer, the Better Business Bureau of Central Virginia where she served as Treasurer, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Virginia and several homeowners associations where she served in various officer roles. She has also been active in her church teaching religious education and lectoring. Susan is a Certified Public Accountant, has a bachelor of business administration degree from Texas A&M University and is a graduate of the Stanford University executive program. She was a fellow with the International Women’s Foundation and in May of 2012 was recognized as one of the top women in finance by CFO magazine and featured on the cover of their May 2012 edition. She is also the proud mother of two Aggies: Christopher ’10 and Travis ’13.