Summit is proud to announce that Jennifer Folsom has been promoted to Chief of Corporate Development. Ms. Folsom has been part of the Summit team since 2010.
As Chief of Corporate Development, Ms. Folsom will provide the leadership, management, and vision necessary to execute Summit’s Strategic and Tactical Plans. She will deploy Summit’s vision for long-term Federal client development. In addition to leading firm-wide human capital and branding initiatives, Ms. Folsom will also manage support functions in operations and marketing. In short, Ms. Folsom is charged with developing Summit’s business and its people.
Anthony Curcio, Principal at Summit, said, “Jenn spent the last six years learning what our clients need to succeed and bringing that insight to our recruiting, training, and strategic planning. Summit is dedicated to listening closely to clients and continually evolving, and Jenn is at the center of that discipline. This experience, along with her impressive background before coming to Summit, prepares her for this central role.”
Albert Lee, Principal and Expert Economist at Summit, said, “The role of Chief of Corporate Development is responsible for developing two important assets: our staff and our clients. I could not think of someone more qualified than Jenn to take this charge. She has been responsible for recruiting and staff development at Summit. More recently, she has led the charge for client outreach. Her new role is a reflection of her excellence in practice.”
Ms. Jennifer Folsom has extensive experience in human capital management, recruiting, and branding. She has over 15 years of experience in the financial and consulting industries, leading large teams with responsibilities for multi-million dollar budgets.
In her previous position as Human Capital Manager at Summit, Ms. Folsom led recruitment and professional development efforts at the firm. She established an extensive on-campus recruiting effort and summer analyst internship program. Ms. Folsom supported Summit staff in their professional development by sourcing and coordinating in-house presentations on technical topic areas, including statistical programming, as well as pioneering Summit’s PEAKS (Professional Education and Knowledge Seminar) program. She also managed all branding, media, and client satisfaction initiatives. Before joining Summit, she was a Partner at Momentum Resources, an Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Company, and Founder of Radius Partners.
She earned an M.B.A. from Georgetown University, as well as a B.A. in business and economics from Randolph-Macon College. Ms. Folsom has held the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification since 2003.
About Summit
Summit is a specialized analytics advisory firm that guides Federal agencies, financial institutions, and litigators as they decode their most complex analytical challenges. Summit’s staff of Economists, Econometricians, and Research Scientists use quantitative techniques to assist our clients as they model risk, evaluate program performance, and predict future performance.
At Summit, we solve complex analytical challenges with unparalleled customer service and extensive client collaboration. The solutions are complete only when they are understood by our clients and solve their problems. Our distinct capabilities include program evaluation, applied statistics and economics, mortgage finance, financial services, Federal Credit modeling and forecasting, and litigation analytics.
Summit hosts a solutions-focused academic environment and is dedicated to staying at—and pushing—the forefront of analytics best practices. To that end, our staff members present research at conferences worldwide and partake in intensive in-house technical trainings (read more about our Professional Education and Knowledge Seminars) on a weekly basis. Our Principals, Academics, and Research Scientists are recognized experts in their fields and they are capable of leading large and small solution teams. Find out more about Summit by visiting the company website: http://www.summitllc.us/.