HARRISBURG (April 30) – The Pennsylvania Senate today confirmed Robin Wiessmann, a 28-year veteran of public finance and investment banking, by a vote of 49-0 to serve as State Treasurer for the rest of the term of former Treasurer Robert P. Casey, Jr., who was elected to the U.S. Senate last fall.
“It is truly an honor to serve the Commonwealth as State Treasurer,” Wiessmann said. “I am grateful for the support of the Governor and the Senate, and I look forward to constructive working relationships with the General Assembly and the Commonwealth agencies that Treasury serves.”
“My plan is to energetically review Treasury with an eye towards making the Department’s operations more effective and efficient,” Wiessmann said. “I am committed to identifying national benchmarks for Treasury’s core functions, from both public agency and private sector models, and implementing these best practices at the Department.”
Prior to her confirmation, Wiessmann, of Newtown, Bucks County, was affiliated with Merrill Lynch as a director and served as the director of Vantagepoint Funds. Since 2003, Wiessmann has served as Vice Chairman of the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission.
Wiessmann was a founding principal and president of Artemis Capital Group, the leading women-owned investment banking firm in the United States. In 1999, the National Women Executives in State Government Association awarded her the “Breaking the Glass Ceiling Award.”
Wiessmann has served as a financial advisor and investment banker for seven state treasurers and the comptrollers of New York State and New York City. She was a board member and chair of the Investment Committee for a then $18 billion public sector pension fund, the International City Managers Retirement Corporation (ICMA).
Wiessmann graduated cum laude from Lafayette College and received her law degree from Rutgers University.
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