Susan is president and founder of STAT Resources. She is the strategic force behind the organization's success. She has developed a number of strategic proprietary research metrics including Dominance Indexing™ and Purchase Influence Shares™, that have served to differentiate the company.  Susan has conducted market, industrial, and human resources research, provided consultation and training to numerous companies.

She has particular interest in the application of statistical methods to understanding the complexities of organizations and marketplaces.

Prior to establishing STAT Resources in 1982, Dr. Ellerin was the dean of social sciences and humanities at Northeastern University where she oversaw a faculty of more than two hundred people in ten departments.

As an academic, Susan published extensively on psychometric topics. She earned her doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania.