Carolyn M. Welsh is the President and Chief Executive Officer of NJ Sharing Network. Since joining the organization in 1999, Welsh has worked with NJ Sharing Network employees, local hospital and community partners, and hundreds of volunteers to consistently achieve record growth in lives saved and enhanced through organ and tissue donation and transplantation. Welsh has been recognized by NJBIZ on its list of New Jersey’s Best 50 Women in Business and its Health Care Power 50 list. Welsh was also named on ROI-NJ’s Health Care Influencers list and honored with the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce’s Women of Inspiration - Nonprofit Advocate Award.

While serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Welsh guided effective strategic plans, policies, and procedures that resulted in all-time highs in the number of organ donors in New Jersey despite unprecedented restrictions due to the pandemic. She led the organization’s clinical services, operations, regulatory compliance, performance improvement, hospital and community outreach, and communications.

Welsh joined NJ Sharing Network as a Hospital Services Manager. She continually advanced to take on broader responsibilities, including the oversight of organ and tissue recovery and placement efforts with New Jersey donor hospitals and the state’s six transplant centers. She also guided NJ Sharing Network’s Family Services Department, which offers donor families support to cope with the loss of a loved one, as well as a multidisciplinary team of clinical donation specialists, surgical recovery specialists, the data department, organ and tissue quality assurance, and the organization’s donation resource center.

In addition to Welsh’s role at NJ Sharing Network, she serves on the Board of Directors for Eversight, the Seton Hall University Alumni and the Caucus Educational Corporation (CEC). 

Prior to joining NJ Sharing Network, Carolyn worked in the Medicare division at United Healthcare, where she was responsible for building and maintaining relationships with hospital executives and medical staffs.