Just out of high school in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Betsy
worked full time at the Cleveland Clinic, a teaching hospital known for its leadership in research, education and health information. There she learned all about medical records and terminology. Next, she provided paralegal services to Cleveland law firms. At the same time, she added the missing element, a bachelor’s degree, not an easy feat for a woman working full time and supporting herself. Hiram College offered weekend classes towards a degree in humanities. It took her six years. “I love the merger and interaction of law and medicine. So
instead of going to law school, I started my business. I didn’t have dependents; I didn’t own anything. It’s easier if you are your own support,” she says modestly. Today, Betsy is chief executive officer of the company she
founded in 1984, Litigation Management, Inc., headquar- tered in Cleveland. LMI provides defendant corporations, insurers and their counsel with medical information manage- ment services for litigation that involves some medical aspect, particularly product liability litigation. Throughout her career, Betsy has received honors for
her work and for her community service, including being named a “Woman of Note” by Crain’s Cleveland Business and the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. This year, she received the Global Dressage Visionary award. She sits on several boards, including serving as secretary on the USET Foundation, past board chair board of the Fieldstone Farm Therapeutic Riding Center, vice chair of the board of trustees of alma mater Hiram College and chair of the West- ern Reserve Land Conservancy, among others. Betsy has also thrown her support behind the USEF Human Sport Science and Medicine program, because of their vision to produce fitter, stronger, injury-free human athletes who can perform to their highest potential.
Discovering Horses and Conservation Betsy credits both her conservation bent and her love for horses to a day camp in Cleveland. “None of my family were animal-oriented. It all began when my mother enrolled me in a day camp called Red Raider. I have such an appreciation for what they did. That’s where I fell in love with riding and did as much as I could until I went to work full time after high school,” she recalls. “During the school year, we rode one hour, learned horse
care for one hour and had what they called recreation for one hour. Now I realize the recreation hour was conserva- tion education: all about the land, geology, Native Americans, edible plants. The founders were visionaries. Now my work in conservation is a direct result of the love of the land and nature that I learned from Red Raider.” After building her career, Betsy returned to riding. Today, she has horse farms in Middlefield, Ohio and Wellington,
OPPOSITE TOP: Betsy Juliano (center) with Ramiro and Jennifer Baumert (left), and Laura Graves and Verdades (right), two top riders that Betsy sponsors. RIGHT: Betsy stands with Adrienne Lyle and Salvino, a stallion that Betsy supports via syndication.
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Florida, both named Havensafe. When she bought the Ohio farm in 1999, a friend came up with the name because of Betsy’s penchant for rescuing animals and her involvement with rescue organizations.
Current Horses Her nine retired horses live at the Ohio farm. She also owns 16-year-old Big Tyme, a Belgian Warmblood gelding (Saros van ‘t Gestelhof x Elvira x Wendekreis), who competed on the 2011 gold medal Pan American Games team under his owner at the time, Marissa Festerling. With Big Tyme, Betsy earned her USDF silver medal and the 2012 Amateur Intermedi- aire I Region 2 Championship. Others in her stable include Cleopatra (Diamond Hit x Wilhelmine x Canaster I), a mare she bought in the 2007 PSI auction, Handsome (Hochadel x Weltmeyer) whom she bought from Marie Meyers and Hori- zon (Hotline x Don Schufro x Inschallah AA), also from the PSI auction when the mare was three. Today, at nine, she is campaigned by Adrienne Lyle along with Riccidoff (Riccione x Don Sarina x Don Davidoff), also purchased at the PSI auction. Last year, Betsy joined a syndicate that purchased
Hanoverian stallion Salvino (Sandro Hit x Dynastie x Donner- hall), an up and coming horse also ridden by Adrienne and coached by Debbie McDonald. He was initially purchased by Akiko Yamazaki and Four Winds Farm, owners of top horses ridden by Steffen Peters, and then syndicated with ownership
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