Suzanne Finnegan

Suzanne Finnegan, Chief Credit Officer at BAM Mutual, is responsible for underwriting approval of all transactions BAM insures. She has held that role since BAM’s launch in 2012 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 2023. Previously, she was Executive Vice President at Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., where she was the Senior Credit Officer overseeing credit transactions in the Government Banking segment.

From 1990 to 2004, she was the Chief Municipal Underwriting Officer and Chair of the Municipal Underwriting Committee at FSA. Prior to joining FSA, she was Vice President and Manager of the General Surveillance Department at MBIA and earlier supervised MBIA’s Special Tax and Leasing Group. She began her career in the Public Finance Division of Marine Midland Bank and in the Municipal Research Group at Oppenheimer & Co.

Suzanne is a past Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Association for Governmental Leasing and Finance, and is a member of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts, the Southern Municipal Analysts Society, and the Municipal Analysts Group of New York. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from St. John’s University and an M.B.A. from Fordham University.