Betsy comes from the world of software, starting with founding Operations Control Systems, a software company providing performance and security services to the top Fortune 50 companies. After she sold OCS, in 2003, she founded Veriden, an identity theft prevention system and software company utilizing biometric-based identification systems to stop identity theft in the financial sector.
As the first female manager at IBM Canada, Betsy was a role model for other businesswomen seeking sales and engineering leadership positions at high-tech firms in North America. Betsy has been awarded and recognized in a variety of arenas including Silicon Valley Business Woman of the Year, 2019 International STEP (Society for Trust and Estate Professionals) Digital Assets Expert, 2019 New Mexico Bar Association, 2018 New Mexico C-Suite Leadership, and is an international speaker. Betsy attended computer science classes at Carnegie Tech and attended graduate level business school classes at Harvard University.