Otto Beatty is an entrepreneur, attorney, and real estate investor.  Mr. Beatty has over 25 years of real estate experience as an investor, owner, landlord, consultant, attorney and developer with experience in the single-family, multifamily, industrial warehouse, and the office/coworking asset classes.   Currently, Mr. Beatty is the co-developer of an Affordable/Workforce housing project on the site of former Ohio Baptist Convention Headquarters in the Near East Side of Columbus.  The site has recently been placed on the national registry of historic places by the National Park Service.  Since 2013, he has been the owner operator of Intelligent Office/Intelligent Assistant, a shared office, coworking and business services facility in Downtown Columbus. He maintains a consultancy and coaching practice in the areas of entrepreneurship and real estate development.

Mr. Beatty serves as a member of the City of Columbus Downtown Commission ,which is the reviewing and oversight body for zoning, adjustment, and signage for all Downtown Columbus projects.   He is a former Commissioner on the City of Columbus Development Commission and the North East Area Commission.  He is a 2014 graduate of New York based Project REAP, real estate associate program and serves as its local market leader for Midwest Region I. In 2021, he completed Executive Education program in Real Estate Investment and Development at Rice University.   He is an active member of the Urban Land Institute and a member of its Small Scale Development Product Council (Silver) and The Initiative to Make Small Big.  Prior to entering into full-time entrepreneurship, Mr. Beatty was a Partner in the national law firm of Baker & Hostetler LLP   He is currently the Chairman of the Ohio Elections Commission, overseeing campaign finance laws in Ohio.   Otto is a graduate of Morehouse College and the University of Michigan Law School.