Employee Ownership Ideas Forum – 2024: Speakers
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Christine Adee
Co-Chief Executive Officer, OwnersEdge, Inc.
Barbara Baksa
Executive Director, National Association of Stock Plan Professionals
Joseph Blasi
Director, The Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing
James Bonham
CEO/President, The ESOP Association
Margot Brandenburg
Senior Program Officer, The Ford Foundation
David Brown
Director of Policy, Office of the Administrator, US Small Business Administration
Anthony Cimino
Vice President and Head of Policy, Carta
Maureen Conway
Executive Director of the Economic Opportunities Program.
A Vice President of the Aspen Institute
Chris Cooper
Director, Ohio Employee Ownership Center
Christine Curella
Former Senior Policy Adviser to Deputy Mayor of New York City,
Economic Development Consultant
Evan Edwards
Chief Executive Officer, Project Equity
Mariann Fuller
Chief Financial Officer, Columbia Chemical
Gwyneth Galbraith
Vice President, Global Small Business Philanthropy, JP Morgan Chase
Leroy Garcia
Chief of Staff, Rural Business-Cooperative Service, US Department of Agriculture
Daniel Goldstein
Chief Executive Officer, Go ESOP LL.
Executive Fellow, Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing
Lisa Gomez
Assistant Secretary for Employee Benefits Security Administration, US Department of Labor
Chris Griswold
Policy Director, American Compass
Jeff Guo
Co-Host and Reporter for Planet Money, NPR
Mowa Haile
President, Sky Blue Builders
Molly Hemstreet
Founder and Co-Executive Director, The Industrial Commons
Executive Fellow, Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing
Jonathan Holloway
President, Rutgers University
Melissa Hoover
Special Projects Director, Democracy at Work Institute
Senior Fellow, Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing
Alex Jacquez
Special Assistant to the President for Economic Development and Industrial Strategy, National Economic Council, The White House
Mary Josephs
Founder and CEO, Verit Advisors
Contributor, Forbes
Sarah Keh
Vice President, Inclusive Solutions, Prudential Financial
Paul Kinghorn
Director, Center for Business and Innovation Growth and Advance Iowa, University of Northern Iowa
Jenny Levy
Executive Vice President, People, Community & Environment, Hypertherm
Wilma Liebman
Former Chair, National Labor Relations Board.
Visiting Distinguished Scholar, Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations
Anna-Lisa Miller
Founding Executive Director, Ownership Works
Joey Nestegard
Chief Financial Officer, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories
Mike Padden
State Senator, Washington
Robert Patricelli
Senior Advisor, InTandem Capital Partners
Rick Plympton
Chief Executive Officer, Optimax Systems, Inc.
Dan Porterfield
President, The Aspen Institute
Phil Reeves
Founding Partner, Apis & Heritage Capital Partners
Naquetta Ricks
State Representative, District 40, Colorado House of Representatives
Corey Rosen
Founder and Senior Staff Member, National Center for Employee Ownership.
Faculty Fellow and Member, Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing
Bernie Sanders
US Senator
State of Vermont
Zoe Schlag
Cofounder and Managing Partner, Common Trust.
Executive Fellow, Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing
Kerry Siggins
CEO, StoneAge
Jim Sorenson
Founder, Sorenson Impact Group
Aquilina Soriano Versoza
Executive Director, Pilipino Workers Center.
Executive Fellow, Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing
Zach Warmbrodt
Financial Services Editor, Politico
Jason Wiener
Member, Colorado Employee Ownership Commission.
Executive Fellow, Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing
Michael Williams
Chief Financial Officer, Black & Veatch