Susan began her career as a process chemical engineer at Roche, the largest Vitamin C facility in the world at the time. She was later named Commercial Director for Foster Wheeler Biokinetics, a pharmaceutical engineering firm embedded in the earliest days of biotechnology design and construction. She traveled the world, developing opportunities for the company, and coordinated the first partnership offering a modular construction option through an alliance with modular cleanroom manufacturer G-Con, cementing her reputation as an out-of-the-box thinker.

 

She later started her own communications consulting firm, which won multiple awards throughout its seven years, including the Emerald Ingenuity award and Best Pharmaceutical Communications & PR Agency in the Mid-Atlantic USA (Biotechnology 2020 Awards). McDay was acquired in 2020 by CGLife, a science communications firm based in Chicago and San Diego.

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