OFF THE CUFF.

• Date: 01 June 2022
• Published date: 01 June 2022

Betsy Lawer

A banker must be careful where she invests her own money to avoid competing with her customers. Therefore, Betsy Lawer put her wealth in Napa Valley grapes. Her two vineyards in Calistoga, California, operate in her absence most of the year, though. Her annual vacation time is capped at six weeks. She should talk to her boss about that.

Lawer has to "walk the walk," she says. As a member of the Cuddy family, she followed her father and brother as President of First National Bank Alaska in 2013. She also followed her mother and grandmother into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame.

Lawer could easily retire to her vineyards, or as long as she's working as CEO and board chair and president, simply coast on the can't-lose proposition of...