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 John Logue
OEOC Founder; Director 1987-2009; Professor of Political Science, Kent State University, 1977-2009
BA University of Texas (1970); MA Princeton (1973); Ph.D. Princeton (1976). Shortly after joining the Kent State faculty in 1977, Logue became involved in the effort to avert the Youngstown steel mill shutdowns. Logue began research concerning the use of employee ownership as a strategy for job creation and retention in Ohio in 1984. He founded the OEOC in 1987 with grants from the Cleveland and Gund Foundations and the Ohio Department of Development to provide information and preliminary technical assistance for Ohioans exploring employee ownership, and directed the expansion of its programs to include Ohio's Employee Owned Network, a multi-company training program in 1989, and developing single-company ownership training programs in 1990.
Logue served on the boards of directors of Reuther Mold and Manufacturing, Cuyahoga Falls, OH, and Sharpsville Quality Products, Sharpsville, PA, as an outside director for the ESOP. He wrote widely on employee ownership and workplace democracy in the United States and Scandinavia including, most recently, co-editing Transitions to Capitalism and Democracy in Russia and Central Europe: Achievements, Problems, Prospects (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000); and co-authoring Participatory Employee Ownership: How It Works (Pittsburgh: Worker Ownership Institute, 1998); The Real World of Employee Ownership (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001); Modern Welfare States: Scandinavian Politics and Policy in the Global Age, 2nd edition (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003); and Productivity in cooperatives and worker-owned enterprises: Ownership and participation make a difference! (Geneva, Switzerland: International Labour Organization, 2005). Logue was the Ohio Council of Cooperatives' "Ohio Cooperative Educator of the Year" in 2003; won the Ford Foundation's "Leadership for a Changing World" award in 2003; and received a Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa, from Alvernia College in 2005 for his work with employee ownership.
Bill McIntyre Bill McIntyre is a Program Coordinator at the Ohio Employee Ownership Center and was the President of the ESOP Small Business Services consulting firm. Prior to that, for over 15 years, he was the Director of Finance and Chief Financial Officer for ComSonics, Inc., in Harrisonburg, Virginia, a cable TV equipment manufacturer and repairer. While at ComSonics, Bill was a member of the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, the ESOP Administrative Committee, the ESOP Employee Advisory Committee (two years), and served as an ESOP Trustee. Further, Bill was responsible for the internal administration of the company's ESOP. Bill has a BA in Psychology from Cornell University and has an MBA with a concentration in Accounting and Finance from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. He is a CPA and a member of the Institute of Management Accountants. Prior to joining ComSonics, Bill worked as a Senior Management Consultant for Arthur Andersen & Company; then as Manager of Financial Analysis for Perdue, Inc.; as Corporate Controller for American Safety Razor Company; and as Chief Financial Officer for Weinschel Engineering, Inc. In addition, he has served as an Instructor in the School of Accounting at James Madison University. Bill has also served on the Board of Directors of ShenVentures, Inc., a small venture capital firm in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Bill has also served on the ESOP Association's Board of Governors, the Chapter Council Executive Committee, the Advisory Committee on ESOP Administration and was Vice President of the Western Virginia Region of the MidAtlantic Chapter of the ESOP Association as well as President of the MidAtlantic Chapter.
BS Ed. Ohio University (1973), Masters of Public Administration, Kent State University (1994), and Ph.D. candidate in Organization Development, Kent State University. Thomas coordinates the educational programs for Ohio's Employee-Owned Network, a learning community of employee-owned firms. She has been involved with ESOP ownership education since she joined the OEOC staff in 1991. Her background includes customized company training programs for owner education and employee participation in numerous Ohio and Pennsylvania firms and industries, including most of the development work on Republic Engineered Steels week-long Joint Leadership Development workshop for supervisors and their union bargaining committee and grievance counterparts. Thomas has also developed multi-company training programs which specifically address the needs of non-managerial and supervisory staff in ESOP companies. Before joining the OEOC, Thomas spent seven years doing training and counseling for dislocated workers in the Akron area with the Private Industry Council. Thomas is a former president and current board member of the Northeast Ohio chapter of the American Society for Training and Development.
Jim Anderson Jim joined the OEOC staff in 2007, and is responsible for the Evergreen Cooperative Laundry Project. Evergreen is a precedent-setting organization in which inner city low income people will be members of an employee-owned cooperative that provides commercial laundry services to large, anchor institutions in Cleveland, such as the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals as well as nearby nursing homes. Ideally the laundry will be the first of several such efforts. Previously, Jim was CEO of 100% ESOP-owned Republic Storage systems in Canton
BS, Shepherd College (1964) in economics and graduate study in Economics at the University of Delaware. Clem joined the OEOC staff in June 1998 after a career in the labor movement which included twenty-eight years with the United Rubber Workers' research department; he served as URW Research and International Director from 1977 to 1995. Subsequent to the URW's merger with the Steelworkers in 1995, Clem worked in the Research and Benefits Department of the USWA. Clem's initial areas of work for the OEOC include technical assistance in buyout situations, safety training in employee-owned firms, and basic ownership and financial education for union members.
Chris was originally hired by the Center as a student in 1996, worked as an intern and part-time employee in 1998 and 1999, and has been a full-time employee since 2000. He is a coordinator of the Center's Business Owner Succession Planning Program, and is overseeing the program's ongoing expansion. Chris is the lead OEOC presenter on succession planning to business groups, chambers of commerce, and other organizations. He is also active in various Center training programs, including three annual Employee Owner Retreats, and the annual Ohio Employee Ownership Conference. Cooper is also responsible for designing the OEOC's publications, flyers, newsletter, and other printed materials, has been the webmaster for this site as well as the Capital Ownership Group (COG) site, and is also responsible for general computer support at the Center. Prior to joining the Center, he was a graduate of Kent State's Political Science program, and worked at SEIU Local 47 in Cleveland, OH.
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Ashley Hernandez Ashley Hernandez is the newest member of the OEOC staff, starting as program intern September 2009. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Loyola University of Chicago with a degree in Political Science and a minor in Sociology. Previously, She assisted in Launching Citizen Union’s first Hispanic focused branch, the Nuestro Banco division. While living in Chicago, she worked as a community organizer on Southside of the City and was also an undergraduate fellow for The Center for Urban Research and Learning.
Klepikova joined the OEOC staff in 1994. She coordinates the OEOC's Russian regional employee ownership assistance program, funded by the Eurasia Foundation. She has adapted a variety of American training materials for use in Russian employee owned firms. Prior to joining the OEOC staff, she worked as a bookkeeper for a Russian firm. Among her roles with the OEOC has been doing financial training for Russian trade unionists through the AFL-CIO's Free Trade Union Institute.
Roy Messing Roy is the newest member of the OEOC, having joined in 2008. His primary responsibilities involve the Business Succession Planning Program, with a focus on Southwest Ohio. Roy has considerable experience in the banking industry, and as such is involved with the OEOC's administration the Common Wealth Revolving Loan Fund.
Jay Simecek Prior to joining the OEOC staff, Jay enjoyed a varied career spanning 25 years in executive positions, most of which he spent leading an ESOP company. Jay's dedication to employee ownership led him to national involvement in The ESOP Association as President of the Ohio Chapter, member of the Executive Committee of the State and Regional Chapter Council, and member of the Association's Strategic Planning Committee. He has authored articles, designed education materials, and conducted training on employee owner leadership issues. Jay, born and raised in the greater Cleveland area, attended John Carroll University, served in the US Air Force, and began his career in the Information Systems industry. He first encountered employee ownership as he recognized the opportunity to develop a succession plan for the principal of a privately held, family owned firm. Then as Vice-President and General Manager he orchestrated its buyout and transition to an ESOP. For the Center, Jay provides basic technical direction for those anticipating ownership change in their company and considering an ESOP for the first time. In addition, His strength is his hands-on experience with leading an organization into employee ownership and managing a culture change. As such, Jay's focus is expanding Succession Planning programs for small business owners, creating new ESOP's and training existing employee owners. |
