Suzi Kwon Cohen is an investor and capital allocator with three decades of experience managing portfolios across both traditional and alternative asset classes. From 2016 to 2026, Cohen was the Chief Investment Officer of Mousse Partners, the investment division of the parent company of Chanel. Prior to Mousse, from 2005 to 2016, she served as Managing Director and Head of Private Equity for the Americas at the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC), a sovereign wealth fund. Before joining GIC, she was a private equity investor at Quadrangle Group and Credit Suisse Private Equity. Cohen started her career in investment banking at Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank.
She is a trustee of Brown University, where she is a member of the Investment Committee and chairs the President’s Advisory Council on Economics. For Phillips Exeter Academy, Cohen serves as vice president of the Board of Trustees, chairs the
Long-Term Financial Sustainability Taskforce, and is the former chair of the Investment Committee. She is a former trustee of the Stanford Business School Trust and Collegiate School.
Cohen has served on various corporate boards including Petsmart, Kronos, BMC Software and Veritas Technologies and has also been a member of numerous LP Advisory Boards for leading private equity funds. Cohen graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in Economics with honors and Comparative Literature. She received an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.