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Chair
Betsy Berkhemer-Credaire
President, Berkhemer Clayton, Inc.
Betsy Berkhemer-Credaire is the President of Berkhemer Clayton, Inc, a retained
executive search firm headquartered in downtown Los Angeles, specializing in
senior level executive positions in corporate communications, finance and general
management. Corporate clients include Countrywide, Hilton, Disney, Toyota, Edison,
Kaiser Permanente, UC Irvine, University of Southern California, Baxter BioScience,
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, and more. As Past Statewide
California President of the National Association of Women Business Owners (2002-04),
and Past President of the Los Angeles Chapter of NAWBO-LA (2000-01) Berkhemer-Credaire
has long been a champion of women business-owners. A veteran entrepreneur for
more than 30 years, she has launched two successful companies, and early in
her career published a monthly newsletter in 1976 for women business-owners
called ”Women’s Information Network.” Berkhemer-Credaire was
honored in 2006 with the first NAWBO LA “Lifetime Achievement Award;”
will be honored by Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles in 2007 with its “Courage”
award; has received the SBA Small Business Achievement Award in 2001; was inducted
into the NAWBO-LA Millennium Hall of Fame; the Public Relations Society of America/Los
Angeles Joseph Roos Award for Public Service; the March of Dimes Southern California
Volunteer of the Year award, and been nominated for the Los Angeles Business
Journal’s “Women Who Make a Difference” Awards. She currently
serves on the California Utilities Diversity Council, and the boards of Southern
California Leadership Network (SCLN) and the Los Angeles Chamber; and previously
on the UCLA Medical Center Advisory Board.
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