Board of Advisors

JOHN ABRAMS, West Tisbury, Massachusetts. John is cofounder and CEO of South Mountain Company, a 36-year-old employee owned architecture, building, and energy company on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. His book Companies We Keep Employee Ownership and the Business of Community and Place was published by Chelsea Green Publishing in 2008. Business Ethics magazine awarded South Mountain its 2005 National Award for Workplace Democracy. He blogs at www.companywekeep.com.

WILLIAM F. CASEY, JR., Atkinson, NH, is the President and Treasurer of BIF Services, LLC that  provides financial literacy (sponsored) seminars to high school students, college students and seniors in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He is a Certified Public Accountant with nine years of public accounting experience. He was a partner in a regional public accounting firm specializing in bank auditing for five of those years. He is a member of the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He completed a twenty eight year career with the Co-Operative Central Bank, the central bank and excess deposit insurer for Massachusetts Co-Operative Banks. He served as its’ President for the last eight years before his retirement in April 2008.He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Suffolk University in Boston, MA.   

CORY GREENBERG, Shutesbury, Massachusetts. Cory has been advising businesses and non-profits on financial, management, planning, real estate and negotiating for over 30 years.  During this time he has been active in business and non-profits as an owner, managing partner, investor, chief financial officer, treasurer and board member.  Cory is Treasurer and board member of Ten Directions, Inc. and is on the advisory board of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society. He has been CFO at a publicly traded company as well as a financial manager of a worker cooperative, and is a graduate of Hampshire College.  Cory is the chairperson and a founding board member of the Cooperative Capital Fund. For more information visit:www.corygreenberg.com.
 
GLEN OHLUND, Hopkinton NH. Glen works for the TD BANK in community development and serves on the loan committee. He was formerly an outreach coordinaotr for the Cooperative Fund in New Hampshire and Maine.. In his previous position as Development Coordinator with the City of Manchester, NH, he managed the City’s Revolving Loan Fund, among other responsibilities. Prior positions include serving as Assistant Director for the New Hampshire Main Street Center, facilitating revitalization in Downtowns across the State. He also worked and lived in Boston for most of the 1990’s, working on both brick and mortar projects as well as building community capital. He worked with the Boston Building Materials Cooperative during Graduate School, growing a building material recycling project of the BBMC. Originally from New Hampshire, Glen spent much of the 1980’s working on economic, environmental, and social justice issues with membership-based statewide organizations. He is committed to sustainable development issues facing the Granite State and the Country. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and a Master’s Degree in Community Economic Development, both obtained at Southern NH.

 

MARC REICH, Avon, Connecticut. Marc is President of Ironwood Capital LLC, a private equity firm with over $400 million of capital under management which invests in middle market companies throughout the eastern half of the U.S. with a particular focus on businesses owned by women and people of color and businesses located in low- and moderate-income areas.  He has 15 years of investment banking experience and was a private placement lender with Aetna for five years. He started his career as a bank examiner with the FDIC.  He is a long time food co-op member. He holds a B.A. from UCLA and an M.B.A. from the University of Connecticut.

DON SCHRAMM, Burlington, Vermont. Don is co-owner of a worker owned software development firm. He was an organizer and president of a retail food co-op, instructor at various universities and was the project leader of a 32 unit cohousing project. 

TIM WINGATE,  Montpelier, Vermont. Tim  served as CFNE's Board Treasurer for three years and is the finance manager at Hunger Mountain Food Co-operative and has served as the co-op's general manager. He is a CPA who has his MBA from Plymouth State College and a BS from the University of Maine at Machias.