Bethany Schenk is a visionary serial entrepreneur who for three decades has built and sold multiple highly successful companies, most notably in the healthtech industry.

She co-founded and led, as CEO, Web Benefits Design, a national employee benefits technology, compliance and enrollment solution. She also founded BeneTek Corporation, an employee benefits consulting/broker firm. Schenk, her husband, Ron, and their team combined the companies and, for 22 years, grew them into a national best-in-class entity with more than 8,000 employer clients and 400 broker partners. 

In 2019, they sold the companies to CNO Financial Group, a financial-services holding company. Schenk remained CEO for three years before stepping down to pursue Art Originals, where she remains CEO, and to focus on philanthropic opportunities. Art Originals custom-designs canvas, framed, acrylic and giclée art to match any space, with a specialization in commercial projects and large format art. In addition to CEO, Schenk serves as in-house artist, with more than 1,000 original digital masterpieces that can be customized for the client.

Schenk started her career as a property and casualty underwriter at Aetna for two years and was a sales executive at CIGNA Healthcare for five years before founding BeneTek Corporation in 1999 and Web Benefits Designs in 2001. From 2015 through 2021, Web Benefits Design made the Orlando Business Journal’s list of Central Florida’s Top 100 companies.

Other accolades for Schenk and her businesses include Top Ten Technology Executives to Watch from Employee Benefit Advisor magazine in 2019; HR Tech Outlook magazine’s Top Ten Tech CEOs nationwide in 2018 and 2020; CIO magazine’s Top 10 Innovation Tech Firms in 2019 and 2020; and Innovation & Tech Today magazine’s Top 500 Apps that Run the World in 2017 and 2019.

Schenk serves on the executive committee of the FSU College of Business Board of Governors. She also serves on boards at Morris Mountaineer Oil & Gas, Archetype Consulting and Concrewall USA.  

Schenk’s philanthropic and community-minded spirit emphasizes public schools and children through volunteering, funding and other support of Central Florida-area initiatives.

Over the years, she has done hundreds of public speaking engagements, radio shows and television shows as a healthcare technology expert and healthcare reform specialist. Schenk remains passionate about national healthcare reform and anticipates new projects in years to come within the healthcare-industry frontier.  

Schenk attended FSU, where she was a member of the Delta Gamma fraternity, and graduated in 1992 with a degree in risk management and insurance.