Armonk resident Noi Sukaviriya has been named to the Open Door Foundation Board of Directors.
A 17-year resident of Armonk and a long-time User Experience designer and researcher with IBM, Sukaviriya plans to bring her corporate, design and technology expertise to the federally qualified health center.
“Noi follows in the tradition of foundation board members who have very diversified backgrounds and skill sets,” said Lindsay Farrell, Open Door president and CEO. “We”™re confident that she will play a big role in our ability to stay ahead of the technology curve.”
Sukaviriya is an expert in UX design, which focuses on the interaction between human users and everyday products and services. An extremely varied discipline, it combines aspects of psychology, business, research, design and technology. She presently leads an award-winning IBM Food Trust™ design team in providing food traceability solutions.
“Having spent many years in the corporate world, I”™m really looking forward to working in the not-for-profit world and using my skills to support an organization like Open Door that plays such an important role in helping people who can”™t afford health care,” she said.
Making a difference in the community, she said, reminds her of how as a teenager she would follow her parents through rural areas of Thailand ”” her father was a provincial governor and her mother active in the Red Cross ”” to support local development projects.
She came to the United States to attend graduate school, in Washington, D.C.
Long-time Briarcliff Manor resident Marie Pennacchio has also been named to Open Door Family Medical Center”™s Board of Directors. She brings her experience as a nurse, corporate executive, entrepreneur and artist to her new role.
“She has a strong sense of the needs of the community and has a vision for the future,” said Farrell.
Pennacchio, a graduate of New York University began working at Beth Israel Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as a private duty nurse, before returning to NYU to get her MBA and enter the business world. She worked at Clairol and Nabisco before opening her marketing firm.
“Open Door is the absolute embodiment of holistic care,” she said. “I was truly impressed with their collaborative care model, which I believe has a direct relationship on the success rates in patient compliance for the myriad health issues they address. In an age of uncertainty in many domains for the population they serve, this model restores control for the patient in countless ways.”
Open Door cares for more than 60,000 adults and children every year in Westchester, Putnam and Ulster counties, with more than 300,000 patient visits and more than 400 babies delivered annually, regardless of ability to pay.
