Bethann Rome

Founder, process architect and former opera singer. An unlikely career path? The common element among these is the ability to recognize, visualize and manipulate patterns.

Bethann applied those skills to the challenges of creating efficient, reliable processes to manage the analog-to-digital conversion of large collections of information which was essential to move business into the Automation Age. One of her notable inventions was the use of OCR to identify and route the management of documents through a processing line bason on their content, rather than in the order in which they were found in the file. The result was that every operator did not have to be trained to analyze every type of document – they could specialize, thus improving the speed and quality of the effort overall. Following her pioneering work in the development of the automated information processing pipeline, she recognized that the creation of an electronic document repository relieved the constraints inherent in having an entire workforce in one place at the same time, thus establishing a foundation for the "Telework" or "Work From Home" trend. Most recently, Bethann and her co-founders developed a patented approach to enabling an AI/ML system to recognize the distinct traits of individuals by observing the way they type. When not working on solving business problems such as uniformity of product (quality control), achieving a predictable production/delivery rate and keeping employers and employees on the same page when they are not in the same place, Bethann sews dresses for underprivileged girls in Haiti – hundreds of them.