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New York: AMA with Michael Otten, MBA, PhD

Join us for our monthly Ask Me Anything (AMA) series!

This month, we welcome Michael Otten to discuss election reform and ranked choice voting innovation to be used in 2021 Democratic Primaries

January 27th at 8 PM Eastern

https://speakhire-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIsf-2trDspGNK8wSUtx-ZhEC5i1wWJ8-Fj

Michael Otten is co-founder of “Reform Elections Now” and “The Green Chimneys Institute” in Brewster, NY, adjunct professor of international business management at EFREI (http://www.efrei.fr/en/) and mentor at INSEAD (https://www.insead.edu/) in France and Singapore. He was president of the Scarsdale Schools (Public $140 Million budget) and Green Chimneys School (Special Education $40 Million, 250 students) and Children’s Services (Nature Based Therapy, 300 animals) Boards. His 30+ years with IBM included managing technology development and business planning for Europe, Asia/Pacific and Latin America. As CIO, IBM Latin America, he led a $38 million international systems development initiative. He co-authored and guest taught a Technology of Management class, based on a European case study, at Harvard Business School in 2005. He was on the Harvard NY Community Partners Board and led a Civic Engagement consulting effort for the President of Kingsborough College CUNY. He served on a Distinguished Alumni International Economics Panel at Princeton. He judged entrepreneurship competitions at ASHOKA/NYU and INSEAD. He has technical degrees from Princeton (BSEE), Columbia (MS) and American Universities (PhD), and a Harvard MBA. He is currently spearheading an Electoral Reform movement in the USA, cf. ReformElectionsNow.org.