Eric Ottaway started off his working career in management consulting and then left to join a client in the healthcare industry. He joined the Brooklyn Brewery in 1996 as manager of their Boston distributor, The Craft Brewers Guild. He now works out of the company headquarters in Brooklyn, and is the Brewery`s General Manager.
Ottaway's comments are from a panel discussion on "The Business of Wine, Beer and Spirits" organized by the Cornell Entrepreneur Network of the Metro New York region. The panel featured Roy Danis (Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing, W.J. Deutsch & Sons, Ltd.), Eric Ottaway (General Manager of the Brooklyn Brewery) and Byron F. Hoover (Marketing Director, Jose Cuervo).
Eric Ottaway received his undergraduate degree from Yale and his MBA from Harvard.
We always say that we'll never be a national brand and that may some day change but our focus really has always been kind of an East coast regional is how we tout ourselves, although we are now in Michigan. So I suppose that doesn't quite count anymore, and in the last two or three years really, ex...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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