Courtesy QEDC

Guttmann Aims to Be ‘Unfair Advantage’ for Queens Entrepreneurs

By MOHAMED FARGHALY

mfarghaly@queensledger.com

Ben Guttmann has been named the new Executive Director of the Queens Economic Development Corporation (QEDC), marking a generational leadership change at one of the borough’s most vital economic organizations. Guttmann succeeds longtime director Seth Bornstein, who stepped down after over four decades with QEDC, including 16 years as executive director.

“The world would be better off if it were more like Queens,” Guttmann declared in a message announcing his appointment. “Queens is the truest version of the American Dream. This is where you can be from anywhere and become anything.”

A Queens native who grew up in Long Island, Guttmann returns to lead an organiz

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