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6) Betty Otte
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Ms. Otte brings to EBD more than 30 years of entrepreneurship, marketing, and management experience of small and mid-size businesses.Ms. Otte currently is District Director of Orange County SCORE (Counselors to America 's Small Businesses), a group of executives who volunteer to provide their expertise to small businesses.SCORE is a resource partner to the Small Business Administration.Ms, Otte is also President of Business by Design, a unique consulting firm specializing in service industry marketing to small and mid-size business development and franchisor/franchisee relations.She has developed techniques for the management of diverse people up to a 350-employee level.From 1980 to 1990, Ms. Otte built a multimillion-dollar franchise of Nutri/System Weight Loss Centers from one to twenty in Southern California . During this period, she was responsible for the company's growth, sales revenues, organizational development, and exceptional service .
Ms. Otte lectures and has taught business and marketing practices at U.C. Irvine, Santa Ana College, Learning Tree University, and National University.She received her life teaching credential from University of California , Los Angeles and earned a B.A. degree from Carroll College and an Executive M.B.A. from Harvard School of Business.