Council Member Beth Petrunoff
Beth is a retired GE executive living in Old Naples. She enjoys the many amenities Naples offers including the Naples Botanical Garden and the many arts programs around town. Beth has many interests including gardening, painting, pickleball and trivia with family and friends. She currently enjoys serving as the president of her homeowner’s association.
She’s been happily married for 26 years and has lived in Naples since 2008. Beth has a passion for animals and has rescued dogs since she was a child. She currently has two rescue dogs. Beth grew up in Northeast Ohio and Illinois and spent most of her adult life in New Canaan, Connecticut.
Beth attended the University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. After college, she was hired by GE onto a financial management training program and spent her career at GE retiring a VP in GE Capital. Beth’s skills and experience include:
Leading her businesses’ most profitable insurance product.
Launching and running a business that grew to $2 billion in 18 months.
Strong team skills including collaborating with 22 countries on complex strategic plans using the disciplined “six sigma” quality framework.
Strong finance, marketing, and executive management development including:
GE’s two year Financial Management Program.
GE’s Executive Marketing Program at Northwestern (Kellogg School of Management).
Multiple executive management development programs jointly developed by GE and Harvard University.
Beth firmly believes:
Our citizens are at the top of the organization chart as shown in the Naplesgov.com website and citizen engagement and transparency are key.
We must apply rigorous business practices including strong metrics to prioritize and complete projects that are important to our community.
In the power of the team – with city council, city staff, and citizens working together with the shared mission to keep Naples beautiful.
Beth’s priorities are derived directly from the City Vision:
Balanced development and modernizing our development codes and ordinances.
Improved water quality of our lakes and beaches.
Better technology to protect us and improve our quality of life.
