COG Participants

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Michael Anderson, labor securities attorney, Davis Cowell & Bowe

Len Arthur, (email), Wales Institute for Research into Cooperatives (WIRC), University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC) Business School.

David Binns, Associate Director, Foundation for Enterprise Development

Ed Carberry, National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO)

Bill Carris, President & CEO, Carris Reels, an employee owned company

Steve Clem, (email), Program Coordinator, Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Kent State University

Steven Cludts, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium

Chris Cooper, (email), Media Specialist, Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Kent State University

Carla Dickstein, Research Director, Coastal Enterprises, Inc.

Rosemary DuMont, Director of New Media Services and Interim Director of Academic Computing and Technology, Kent State University

David Erdal, Chair, Job Ownership Ltd., UK

Isabel Fernandez, (email), Consultant, Grupo OTEIC Consulting - Spain

Richard D. Foley, (email), President & CEO, The Foley Group, Inc.

Jennifer Garvey, Attorney at KPMG, Maputo, Mozambique

Professor Patrick Guiol, Universite de Rennes, France

Professor Randy Hodson, (email), Department of Sociology, Ohio State University

Bessie House, Director, Minority Business Center, Kent State University

Bruce Householder, Executive Director, Worker Ownership Institute, United Steelworkers of America

Chip Hunter, Assistant Professor of Management, Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania

Don Jamison, (email) Steering Committee Coordinator, Vermont Employee Ownership Center

David Johanson, employee ownership attorney

Jalmer Johnson, Research Director, Air Line Pilots Association

Jerry Kalish, President, National Benefit Services, Inc.

Peter Kardas, Labor Specialist, King County Labor Council, Washington

James Keogh, Department of Community Trade & Economic Development, State of Washington

Olga Y. Klepikova, Russian Program Coordinator, Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Kent State University; Webmaster, COG Russian Site

Norm Kurland, Director, Center for Economic and Social Justice

Mary Landry, Board Chair, Maryland Brush, an employee-owned company, and President, Maryland Labor Education Association

John Logue, (email), Director, Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Kent State University

Dennis Long, President, BCI Group

Lars Lindqvist, Handelshøjskole [School of Business Administration], Copenhagen, Denmark

 

Janos Lukacs, Managing Director, Share Participation Foundation, Hungary

Ronald Ludwig, (email)

Erik Maaloe, (email), professor, The Aarhus School of Business

Chris Mackin, Ownership Associates

 

Julia Markus, Executive Director, Employee Ownership and Incentives Association, Canada

 

Andrew Martin, President, Annie's Home Grown

Race Mathews, Adjunct Professor,  Faculty of Business and Law, Deakin University; Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University

John D. Menke, (email), Menke & Associates

David Morris, Vice President, Institute for Local Self-Reliance

 

Marc Mathieu, Director, European Federation of Employed Shareholders

Tim Mitchell, Executive Director, DGI Projects Party, Ltd., and labor attorney, Australia

Mary Mitiguy, Organizational Development Director, Carris Reels, an employee owned company

 

Marc Mortier, Secretary General, Institute pour la Participation dans L'Enterprise, Belgium

Ma. Adela Oliveros de Miranda, RORAC Research and Educational Center for Workers.

Deborah Groban Olson, (email), COG Executive Director, Law Offices of Attorney Deborah Groban Olson

Prof. Andrew Pendelton, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

John Pozzi, (email), Acting Manager, Global Resource Bank

Mark Reiners, (email), independent researcher, (additional link 1), (additional link 2)

Corey Rosen, Executive Director, National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO)

 

Loren Rogers, Ownership Associates

 

June Sekera, Commonwealth Corporation

 

André Schleiter, Economics Director, Bertelsman Foundation, Germany

 

Rainer Schülter, Executive Director, European Confederation of Worker Co-operatives and Participative Enterprises (CECOP), Belgium

 

Sid Scott, Woodward Communications (an employee-owned company)

 

Bob Shinners, Loan and Investment Officer, Coastal Enterprises Inc.

John Simmons, President, Participation Associates

 

Bob Smiley, Benefit Capital Inc.

 

David Spitzley, personal website, Family Independence Agency, State of Michigan

James Steiker, Shared Equity Strategies, Inc., employee ownership attorney

Joan Stockinger, Crocus Fund, Manitoba (Canada)

 

Viktor B. Supyan, Deputy Director, Institute of the USA and Canadian Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Sarah Turberville, (email), Lecturer, National Key Centre in Industrial Relations, Monash University, Australia

James Tussler, Washington State Labor Council - AFL-CIO

Ryan Weeden, National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO)

Lynn Williams, Retired President, United Steelworkers of America, and Co-Chair, Worker Ownership Institute

 

Professor Jacqueline Yates, Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Kent State University - East Liverpool Campus