Susan Menelaides Rose is a retired managing director of Deloitte & Touche, LLP, where she was a member of the firm's National Audit Group.  Her primary responsibilities included developing the firm's policies, procedures and training for conducting financial statement audits by the firm's United States auditors.

After graduating from Texas Tech University, Susan joined Deloitte's Houston office where she served a variety of corporate clients. During her career in public accounting, she was a director at the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) in New York and the partner in charge of quality control for the audit practice of a CPA firm in Chicago. Through acquisitions of that firm, she became a partner in the national audit group of McGladrey & Pullen until returning to Deloitte. From 1999-2003, Susan was a member of the AICPA's Auditing Standards Board, which was responsible for developing auditing standards for financial statement audits conducted by auditors in the United States.

Throughout her career, Susan has been actively involved in many professional and charitable organizations.  For eight years she was a member of the board of the Texas Tech University Foundation, where she served as Secretary and Chairman of the Audit Committee.   In addition, she is Treasurer and member of the Finance Committee of Pinnacle Presbyterian Church, and member of the Board and Audit Committee of the Presbyterian Foundation. 

Susan holds a bachelor's degree in business administration in accounting from Texas Tech University.    

She and her husband, Bob, reside in Scottsdale, Arizona.