Career
She founded Ovesey & Company, and was the first female Chief Executive Officer 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, Incorporated.
(later Ovesey Straus, Incorporated and ultimately Ovesey, Berlow Straus, Incorporated). Her husband was noted psychoanalyst Lionel Ovesey.
She died of lung cancer in Manhattan.
