Betsy Atkins

Betsy Atkins is a former three-time CEO and has served on some of the world’s most visible Global public company boards. For 30 years, she has worked behind the scenes at companies like Chico’s, Vonage, Darden Restaurants, NASDAQ, HealthSouth, Wix, and Home Depot Supply. She has served on over 30 boards and been through 13 IPOs and served on many PE and VC backed private boards.

Betsy started her career as an entrepreneur co-founding several successful digital tech and consumer companies including blockbuster $5.4 billion Ascend Communications. Betsy is an effective operational leader, dramatically building, and scaling businesses. She has extensive enterprise B2B and B2C software expertise. She has a strong operational perspective with focus on taking friction out of the consumer experience. She leverages broad contemporary knowledge of digital technology to reduce costs, drive experiences/productivity using AI machine learning analytics to drive consumer outcomes.

Betsy is a corporate governance expert with an eye for making boards a competitive asset. Her corporate Board experience is vast and covers multiple industries including: Technology, Retail, Hospitality, CPG, Industrial, Healthcare, FinServ, Manufacturing, and Automotive. She brings vision for new consumer experiences, relentless customer focus and high business discipline around execution.