Regina Ovesey

Regina Haimo Ovesey (4 February 1921 – 13 December 2003) was an American advertising executive. She founded Ovesey & Company, and was the first female CEO of an agency recognized by the American Association of Advertising Agencies.

Ovesey was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She grew up in Los Angeles, and graduated from Stanford University. After founding Ovesey & Company in the 1940s, she ran Regina Ovesey, Inc. (later Ovesey Straus, Inc. and ultimately Ovesey, Berlow Straus, Inc.).

Her husband was noted psychoanalyst Lionel Ovesey. She died of lung cancer in Manhattan.^[1]

Selected publication

Ovesey, Regina (1980). The Last Word: Exploring Careers in Contemporary Communication. R. Rosen Press

References

1. Staff report (December 20, 2003). Regina Ovesey -- Advertising Executive, 82. New York Times