Aug 12, 2009
Expert in payments industry joins the 2009 Delaware Chapter board of trustees
Carla Koss
July 28, 2009—Wilmington, DELAWARE The National Multiple Sclerosis Society announced today that Betty Sweeny, founder of Arisa and past-president and chief executive officer of Business Development Associates, Inc., joined the Delaware Chapter board of trustees. In addition to nearly 30 years experience in the payments industry, Sweeny has leveraged her early line-management experience to become one of the leading partnership experts in the industry. She has consulted and developed marketing partnerships for JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, Bank of America, U.S. Bank, Sony, Progressive Insurance, Ford Motor Credit, Washington Mutual, ToysRUs, Smith Barney, H&R Block, Allstate, NBC Universal, and State Farm. Also a founder, major shareholder, and advisor to PaySimple (an electronic payment-processing company), Sweeny is currently an advisory board member for Apptera (a company that markets packaged speech applications). Sweeny has also been a member of the MasterCard U.S. Marketing Committee, Visa Co-branding Advisors Group, and Visa Electronic Banking Advisors Group.
The 2009 Delaware Chapter board of trustees includes chair Carl Hertrich, C.P.A.; governance chair Cheryl Heiks of LLuminari, Inc.; audit chair Maria Schaffer of PFPC; secretary Gail Jasionowski of AAA Mid-Atlantic; and treasurer Steve Kessler of Bank of America.
About multiple sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis, an unpredictable, often-disabling disease of the central nervous system, interrupts the flow of information within the brain and between the brain and the body. Symptoms range from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis. The progress, severity, and specific symptoms of MS in any one person cannot yet be predicted, but advances in research and treatment are moving us closer to a world free of MS.
Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50 with at least two to three times more women than men being diagnosed with the disease. MS affects more than 400,000 people in the U.S., and more than 1,500 Delawareans have been diagnosed.
About the National Multiple Sclerosis Society
MS stops people from moving; the National MS Society exists to make sure it doesn’t. We help each person address the challenges of living with MS. In 2007 alone, through our home office and 50-state network of chapters, we devoted more than $136 million to programs that enhanced more than one million lives. To move us closer to a world free of MS, the Society also invested more than $50 million to support 440 research projects around the world. We are people who want to do something about MS—NOW.
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Early and ongoing treatment with an FDA-approved therapy can make a difference for people with multiple sclerosis. Learn about the options by talking to a health-care professional and then contacting the National MS Society at www.nationalMSsociety.org or at 800-FIGHT-MS (800-344-4867).
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