Susan Didrickson

Susan Didriksen is a California-licensed professional fiduciary and the owner of Northern California Fiduciary Services (also known as Didriksen Financial), a practice she has run since roughly May 2009 out of the Shingle Springs / Placerville area of El Dorado County. She is an Accredited Investment Fiduciary® (AIF®) and a National Certified Guardian, and provides trust administration, conservator of estate, conservator of person, and receivership services. Because she holds the AIF® designation, her practice emphasizes unbiased, fiduciary-standard investment management of the assets she oversees for clients.

Before founding her fiduciary practice, Didriksen accumulated more than 15 years of corporate finance and accounting experience. She held operations and fixed-income capital-markets roles at both JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, treasury and financial-planning-and-analysis positions at Case Corporation and Whirlpool, and a divisional CFO role at Teledyne Technologies. Notably, she provided management oversight of GenCorp's approximately $1.3 billion pension fund and served on the company's Benefits Management Committee — the source of the "gencorp.com" association in the stub data.

Alongside her corporate and fiduciary work, Didriksen has been an active real estate investor for roughly a decade, personally owning and managing 40-plus rental units across California and the Midwest. This hands-on ownership — rather than any seed-stage venture activity — is the substance of her "investor" profile.

She was educated at Georgetown University, graduating Magna Cum Laude (Phi Beta Kappa) with an Economics degree from the School of Foreign Service, and earned an MBA from Georgetown's McDonough School of Business (honors program in International Business, with an Andersen Consulting scholarship). She has also taught accounting as an adjunct professor at Folsom Lake College and finance for the University of Phoenix and Ashford University, has served as Treasurer of the Sacramento Valley Bankruptcy Forum, and has sat on the board of Linkage to Education, a Sacramento nonprofit supporting foster youth.

• Real estate, income-first: Her own investing is concentrated in buy-and-hold rental property — 40+ units owned and actively managed across California and the Midwest over roughly ten years — favoring direct ownership and cash-flowing residential/multifamily assets.
• Fiduciary-standard portfolio management: As an Accredited Investment Fiduciary®, she manages client (trust/estate) investments under a documented duty of care, emphasizing "unbiased investment management" and prudent-investor principles rather than speculative or high-risk bets.
• Not a startup/seed investor: No evidence was found of angel checks, venture funds, or seed-round participation. Founders seeking early-stage venture capital are unlikely to find a fit here; her domain is fiduciary services and real estate.
• Values-driven practice: Her firm markets itself on being "Ethical, Experienced, Personalized," and her community roles (foster-youth education, parish involvement) reflect a conservative, trust-oriented approach to money.