Susanne started her secondary education at one of the renowned Austrian schools for tourism, followed by jobs as assistant of the hotel director in Switzerland and the Tyrol. She then switched to Toyota, where she was CRM manager from 92-94.

Susanne then followed up with higher education at the same university as M. Schmidbauer, where she finished a 2-year curriculum for business, languages and law. During and after her studies, she also worked as Marketing Assistant Manager at Casinos Austria (1994-2006). Her command of German, English, French and Italian is top-notch.

Within the M27 office in Graz, she takes care of projects directed at optimizing national grants.