Career
Ottman worked for over ten years in New York advertising agencies before setting up her own company, J. Ottman Consulting, in 1989. Ottman was the founding co-chair of the Sustainable Brands Conference in 2007 and continued to co-chair in 2008 and 2009, giving the keynote address on sustainable branding ideas. The former co-chair of the NYC chapter of O2, the global network of green designers and marketers, for seven years she chaired the jury of the American Marketing Association's Special Edison Awards for Environmental Achievement. She is the founding co-chair of the Sustainable Business Committee of the Columbia Business School Alumni Club of New York and sits on the Advisory Boards of the Centre for Sustainable Design (UK), and the Center for Small Business and the Environment.
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