SUMMARY

Betsy Irizarry is an accomplished Board Advisor and CEO with a proven track record of driving revenue growth and operational efficiency in private equity-backed companies. She is known for leveraging human capital and M&A strategies to enhance organizational performance. She has led organizations through complex integrations and business transformations, improving retention, deepening employee engagement, and stabilizing culture during periods of significant change. Her work consistently results in stronger leadership benches, more resilient organizations, and sustained value creation.

Her experience spans healthcare, information technology, professional services, manufacturing, hospitality, energy, agriculture, and government, giving her a broad perspective on how different business models and regulatory landscapes shape people’s strategy. She has supported companies from founder-led and lower-middle-market businesses to more mature organizations, ranging from 12 to 1,500 employees and from approximately $23 M to $450 M in revenue across the United States and Latin America. This range allows her to quickly calibrate to a company’s stage, scale, and ownership structure.

Fluent in both Spanish and English, Betsy is highly effective in cross-border and multicultural settings, often serving as a bridge between leadership teams, operating partners, and local workforces. She brings a steady, trusted presence in boardrooms, particularly where growth, transformation, and workforce stability must coexist.

EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE

• Drives measurable ROI in complex M&A and integrations by leading seamless transitions, mitigating talent attrition, and controlling employee integration expenses.
• Enhances retention and optimizes costs by developing strategic workforce planning initiatives.
• Builds HR functions from the ground up, implementing essential systems and processes that drive sustainable growth and long-term talent development.
• Advances organizational efficiency by leading human capital transformation efforts and cultivating strategic partnerships to maximize value.
• Reduces risk and ensures continuity. Ensures consistent high workforce engagement and satisfaction and optimizes culture and communication.
• Ensures insights and cost savings by strategizing HR technology transformations to streamline processes and enhance data analytics capabilities.
• She has excelled at orchestrating over nine mergers and acquisitions, demonstrating her proficiency in navigating complex transitions.
• Creates innovative talent-sourcing strategies that consistently deliver outstanding results, including annual savings of over $80,000 through the strategic use of government programs.
• Designs comprehensive talent development programs resulting in increased employee engagement and retention rates.
• Leads strategic workforce planning initiatives, optimizing staffing levels and reducing turnover.
• Supports strategy execution by linking organizational design, operating model, and leadership capabilities to growth, margin expansion, and post-deal value capture.

 QUALIFICATIONS/CERTIFICATIONS

• Mergers, Acquisitions & Post-integration
• Board and C-Advisory Experience
• Employee Experience, Engagement & Retention
• People Analytics & Workforce Management
• Organization Design & Operating Model
• HR Operating Model
• Talent Management Strategies
• Employee Value Proposition
• Succession Planning
• HR Digital Transformation
• Strategic Workforce Management
• Human Resources Strategy & Infrastructure
• Compliance & Risk Management
• Leadership Development
• Crisis Management Communication
• Change & Culture Management Diversity & Inclusion
• P&L Management
• Business Development
• Total Reward Strategy
• Vendor Ecosystem Optimization
• Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace – USF
• Disc Certified – PDI
• Leadership Certified – Miller Heisman

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION / BOARDS

§  Board Director: The Centre for Women

§  Board Director – CareerSource – Workforce Solutions

§  Board Director – The Recruiting Network Group – Tampa Bay

§  Board of Directors –  Women in
Technology International

§  Award Recipient: 2013 Most Powerful and Influential Women

§  Award Recipient: Florida Diversity Council

§  Award Recipient: 2016 Women of the Year Finalist (Entrepreneur Category) by the Tampa Bay Business Journal.