Betty Critch, MBA

Betty serves as the firm’s Controller.  She has more than thirty years of executive leadership experience and more than twenty years of healthcare and education leadership.  Betty’s diverse background includes operating a family-owned business and its subsequent sale, reorganizing a multimillion-dollar coal mining company in north central West Virginia, and founding the West Virginia National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health and Women on Wellness programs.  

Betty earned a BA in Accounting and Education from Bentley College in Massachusetts and an MBA from West Virginia University.  She served as an adjunct professor of Community Medicine and Women’s Studies at West Virginia University and taught accounting at Newbury College in Boston. She is a 2015 recipient of the Wonder Woman Award from West Virginia Focus magazine. Betty and a group of dedicated colleagues advocate for women and families by writing and publishing in peer-reviewed journals, such as Marketing and Public Health and the Journal of Osteopathic Medicine. Currently, Betty is a Commissioner for the WV Women’s Commission, a Governor-appointed position.

Betty is originally from Newton Massachusetts and has made West Virginia her home for more than thirty years.  She is the proud mother of two sons. With a newfound passion for hiking and Mother Nature’s gifts, Betty forages and processes these gifts to share with others. She is studying to be a Master Naturalist.  With members of the “WV Wildcrafters” she leads community workshops to address responsible foraging, how to make tinctures, teas, and more. She also continues her active membership and is a past president of the Newton Massachusetts based “HAC,” which started in 1957 to promote the concept of “friendship that endures.”   She is also the Past President of Quota Club of Morgantown and is active in supporting the arts, local foods, and the political process.