Curtis Farebrother
Chief Strategic Officer
Curtis Farebrother has spent his career in the energy industry doing something most people never attempt: taking a nascent business line from ideation all the way through commercial operations. His experience spans one of Canada's largest energy companies, a private equity-backed carve-out, and startup environments — giving him a rare perspective on what it actually takes to build something new inside a complex industry.
He holds an MBA from Cornell University's S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management and Queen's University's Smith School of Business, and is a CFA Charterholder. He also holds the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) and Energy Risk Professional (ERP) designations — a combination that reflects both the breadth of his strategic experience and the depth of his quantitative rigor.
Curtis is deeply interested in addressing economic fairness. The structural problems Susu Lend is solving — credit exclusion, predatory lending, systemic financial inequality — are the same kind of problems he's spent a career learning how to dismantle from the inside.
"Economic fairness isn't a side mission for me. It's why I joined."