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Betsy is the Chief Executive Officer of Coastal Enterprises Inc. (CEI), which works to grow a just, vibrant and climate-resilient future for people and communities in Maine and rural regions nationally. Before joining CEI in 2016, Betsy led Growing Maine’s Food Industry, Growing Maine, a project of Harvard University’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, and consulted for companies, foundations and nonprofits. From 2005-2012 she was President of the Maine Technology Institute, investing in companies and initiatives seeking to grow high-potential sectors of Maine’s economy. Prior to her move to Maine, Betsy was an Associate Director at The Rockefeller Foundation, where she managed a national grant and impact investment portfolio aiming to increase employment in low-income communities across the U.S. and previously was a Warren Weaver Fellow. She started her career working in international development, principally in sub-Saharan Africa.   

Betsy is a board member of the New Growth Innovation Network.  She has served on the boards of the Opportunity Finance Network, the Elmina B. Sewall Foundation and the Maine Philanthropy Center, as well as a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Inclusive Economies Working Group and an Aspen Institute Job Quality Fellow.  She earned her B.A. at Harvard University and her M.P.A. at Princeton University.  Betsy is the mother of two adult children and lives in Brunswick, Maine with her husband and their dog.  

Education

• Princeton University, MPA
• Harvard University, BA (History of Science)
• Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Certificate (Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders)
• National Venture Capital Association, Certificate (VC Institute)

Community Connections

Betsy has served on boards in the role of chair, vice chair, treasurer and chair of equity and strategic planning committees for national and local organizations in the fields of community development finance, youth development and place-based philanthropy. 

Early in the pandemic, Betsy was appointed by Governor Janet Mills to serve on Maine’s Economic Recovery Committee tasked with recommending strategies to stabilize, support, sustain and grow the State’s economy, for which she co-chaired the Innovation and Entrepreneurship subcommittee.