BS RMI '92
Bethany Schenk is the CEO of Art Originals (AO), a full-service art design, production and installation company located in Orlando, Florida. AO custom designs canvas, framed, acrylic and giclee art to match any space – with a specialization in commercial projects and large format art.
Prior to AO, Schenk was the CEO and founder of Web Benefits Design, a national employee benefits technology, compliance and enrollment solution, and BeneTek Corporation, an employee benefits consulting/broker firm. For 22 years, Schenk and her team combined and grew the two companies into a national, best-in-class entity with more than 8,000 employer clients and 400 broker partners. In 2019, both companies were sold to CNO Financial Group, a publicly traded organization, and Schenk remained CEO for three years before stepping down to pursue her new company, Art Originals, and focusing on philanthropic opportunities.
Schenk’s career also includes working as a property and casualty underwriter at Aetna for two years and a sales executive at CIGNA Healthcare for five years before founding BeneTek Corporation in 1999 and Web Benefits Designs in 2001.
Over the years, Schenk has done hundreds of public speaking engagements, radio shows and television shows as a healthcare technology expert and health care reform specialist. She and her husband, Ron Schenk, also manage a large commercial real estate portfolio in Orlando.
Personal: Schenk grew up in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida. She was a Delta Gamma at FSU, where she graduated in 1992. She lives in Orlando, Florida with her husband of 22 years and four awesome daughters, with one attending FSU.
