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Robin Wiessmann ’75, a 28-year veteran of public finance and investment banking, was nominated today by Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell to serve as state treasurer. She would fill the vacancy left by U.S. Senator Bob Casey.
Wiessmann is a director with Merrill Lynch and was a founding principal and president of Artemis Capital Group, the leading women-owned investment banking firm in the U.S.
A government and law graduate, Wiessmann has served Lafayette as a member of the Board of Trustees, vice chair of Lafayette Leadership Council, and chair of Women in Leadership at Lafayette (now Council of Lafayette Women).
As vice chair of the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission, Wiessmann served as liaison to a Lafayette student Technology Clinic’s project to recommend ways to improve the Easton and Phillipsburg riverfront area and invigorate the business climate.
She was presented with the “Breaking the Glass Ceiling Award” from the National Women Executives in State Government Association in 1999 and was featured as a “Business History Maker, Among Twenty,” in Crain’s New York Business magazine’s tenth anniversary issue. She received a 1996 Civic Spirit Award from Women’s City Club of New York for her efforts to advance the status of women in the business community.
Wiessmann was a board member and chair of the investment committee for an $18 billion (now in excess of $25 billion) public sector pension fund, the International City Managers Association (ICMA)-Retirement Corporation. She serves as director of Vantagepoint Funds, the mutual fund of the ICMA pension fund.
She has also been a financial adviser and investment banker for numerous state treasurers, including Texas, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts and California. Among these state treasurers were Kay Bailey Hutchinson (Texas), Mary Landrieu (Louisiana), and Kathleen Brown (California). She was a financial adviser and investment banker to the comptrollers of New York State and New York City. She also served two years as chair of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Financial Advisory Board.
Her other roles have included membership in the Bond Market Association’s Executive Committee, the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Advisory Council, and the Financial Women’s Association of New York. She was a trustee for the New York Citizen’s Budget Commission.
Wiessmann was in the senior management group of Dain Rauscher Inc., the largest investment banking firm situated off Wall Street. She served on its operating and management committees, and was manager of East Coast fixed-income banking. Prior to her tenures at Dain Rauscher and Artemis, Wiessmann was a vice president at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York, where she was manager of the Mid-Atlantic region. Prior to that, she was both a deputy managing director and deputy director of finance for the City of Philadelphia.
She has been a Rockefeller Fellow of the New York City Partnership, a Leadership Trustee of the Women’s Campaign Fund, and a member of the Advisory Committee for the Women’s Campaign Research Fund’s Leadership 2000 program, the Women Executives in State Government’s Sponsor Advisory Council, and the American Association of University Women.
She has given many talks on professional topics and written articles published in a variety of industry publications.
After graduating cum laude from Lafayette, Wiessmann earned a law degree from Rutgers University School of Law.