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Member of the Board of Directors for the nascent Friends of the QNS Rail project

Adjunct Lecturer in the Baruch College Marketing Department. Currently teaching Digital Advertising, undergraduate course MKT 4557.

In my course I provide a broad-spectrum overview of the digital marketing industry, including classes covering social, mobile, search, display, PR, and other topics. I regularly bring in experts in various fields to provide additional context, and to give students exposure to more "real world" marketing.

Rated in the college’s 99th percentile for “Generates Enthusiasm for Subject Matter,”  “Class Environment Fostered Learning,” and “Helped Learn Subject” in student evaluations.

Co-founded, built, and successfully exited Digital Natives Group, an award-winning marketing agency based in New York City.

Over ten years, we worked our way up from helping the local ice cream shop to partnering with titans like the NFL, Comcast NBCUniversal, SwissRe, and the Nature Conservancy, New York icons like I Love NY, Grand Central Terminal, and the Empire State Building, and luminaries like #1 best-selling author Dr. David Perlmutter, Nobel laureate Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, Hollywood screenwriter David Koepp, and dozens of other world-class leaders. Our journey included billions of impressions, million of products sold, thousands of pieces of content, hundreds of pitches and proposals, and dozens of websites and apps.

Digital Natives Group grew to become a leader in both the creative and civic communities. We collected more than 60 industry awards for design, copywriting, advertising, and strategy, including nods from the Webby's and Shorty's, and we were named 2018 nationa

Ben Guttmann

Built and sold a marketing agency, now teaching marketing at Baruch College, and consulting with some cool startups