M. SUZANNE C. BERRY, MBA, CAE
Suzanne Berry serves as Senior Advisor of HillStaffer. Ms. Berry is an association executive who brings several decades of successful executive leadership experience to HillStaffer clients. As an association CEO and a past owner of an association management company, Ms. Berry deepens HillStaffer’s representation of national not-for-profit and association clients especially in areas of good governance, proactive strategic and operational planning, as well as developing and enhancing an organization’s staff and operational infrastructures to meet the needs of members and key stakeholders.
Ms. Berry has created a practice in Interim C-Suite management and has worked with a number of associations in C-Suite roles. Her engagements have included: Interim Chief Executive Officer for the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE); Interim President and CEO, Association Forum; Interim CEO at the Association for Women’s Health, Obstetrics, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN); and Interim CEO at the American Diabetes Association. She has also created COO roles at both the International Association for the Study of Pain and the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards; and was the interim COO/CFO for the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID).
Previously, Ms. Berry was co-founder of Association Resources, Inc., a leading association management company with over sixty (60) staff that managed national and international associations in multiple sectors including education, healthcare, law enforcement, and general business.
Ms. Berry is an active volunteer and presenter with the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) and earned her CAE in 1995. She is a Governance Fellow with the National Association of Corporate Directors and a member of Greater Naples Leadership. She recently received the Entrepreneurial Excellence Award from the School of Business at Central Connecticut State University.