NCEO Contact Information and Staff Directory

Loren Rodgers is the executive director of the NCEO. Having written dozens of articles, he speaks extensively about topics including communications, ESOP education, employee committees, business literacy, building and maintaining enthusiasm, current research, and corporate governance for employee ownership companies.

Rodgers has a master's degree in public policy from the University of Michigan, where he studied employee ownership and international development with a focus on Slavic Europe. Before joining the NCEO in 2005, he was a senior principal and co-owner of Ownership Associates, a employee ownership consulting firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he worked for 10 years. He is a researcher and active volunteer in the field.

Corey Rosen, Ph.D., is the cofounder and senior staff member of the NCEO. He co-authored, along with John Case and Martin Staubus, Equity: Why Employee Ownership Is Good for Business (Harvard Business School Press, May 2005). Over the years, he has written, edited, or contributed to dozens of books, articles and research papers on employee ownership. He is generally regarded as the leading expert on employee ownership in the world.

Rosen received his Ph.D. in political science from Cornell University in 1973, after which he taught politics at Ripon College in Wisconsin before being named an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow in 1975. He worked on Capital Hill for the next five years, where he helped initiate and draft legislation on ESOPs and employee ownership. In 1981, he formed the NCEO.

Originally hailing from South Dakota and proud of her Midwest roots, Rebecca has lived in the Bay Area since 1994. She's previously worked as a promotions director for a university athletic program, a customer service/call center manager for a catalog company, and a list broker assisting with fundraising efforts for a group of progressive nonprofit organizations.

Rebecca serves as staff assistant at large to the NCEO, lending a hand in all areas. Her primary responsibilities include assisting the meeting directors, purchasing office supplies, maintaining the publication inventory and shipping area, and issuing continuing education credits to meeting attendees. She also assists on research projects and fills in when other administrative staff members aren't available. Her interests include using found items to create garden art, maintaining a large collection of orchids, and volunteering at the East Bay SPCA.

Before joining the NCEO, Monica worked with students with disabilities and The One-Stop Career center at the College of Alameda, and then in a number of departments at the Peralta Community College District, including payroll, budget and finance, purchasing, and human resources. She earned an Associate's Degree in social studies and general curriculum from the College of Alameda in 1999, and is planning on pursuing a bachelor's degree in the near future.

As an administrative assistant at the NCEO, Monica is responsible for completing online orders, processing payments, shipping orders, assisting with customer services, and assisting staff with other assignments as needed. Monica is passionate about helping others, which is apparent in her daily work assisting NCEO customers. She comes from a large family she enjoys spending time with; she is the mother of three lovely daughters and recently married.

Managing Director Eimear Elzy is the NCEO's most senior staff member, having served since 1993. She handles all of the NCEO's financial matters and oversees all administrative operations. Originally from Ireland, Eimear lived and studied in Spain and France, where she met her husband before coming to the U.S. She has four terrific kids she has raised while working here and is an active community volunteer and busy soccer mom.

Dallan Guzinski is the NCEO's research and outreach associate. He was born and raised in the Bay Area but recently lived several years out East, where he received his master's degree in political science at Pennsylvania State University. His studies in graduate school focused on American and comparative politics, with an emphasis on social movements and international employment relations.

Dallan has spent much of his adult life dedicated to education both personally and professionally, having also spent five years working as a mentor for underserved high school students in his local community. In his free time, Dallan enjoys traveling, exploring California's abundant natural beauty, meeting new people, and discovering both new and old music. He also boldly claims to be one of the most devoted European football (soccer) fans you will likely ever meet here in the States.

Achaessa James, CEP, is a product manager at the NCEO, where she works on broad-based equity compensation projects, writes on current regulatory and administrative issues, and advises NCEO members on equity compensation planning. Achaessa has designed and delivered equity administration and corporate governance education programs to attorneys, paralegals, and accounting staff. As part of her staff functions at the NCEO, she can work with companies on a preliminary basis to review legal, accounting, tax, and other issues relating to all forms of equity compensation, as well as matters concerning plan design, administrative setup, and training programs. She also maintains an active consulting practice outside the NCEO to provide longer-term administrative, audit, and corporate transaction support for private companies.

Achaessa is a Certified Equity Professional through the CEP Institute at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business. She has worked in the venture capital and start-up community since 1999, supporting private stock placement transactions, IPO registrations, and administering non-public and micro-cap company equity compensation plans for companies such as Shop.com, Classmates.com, Jones Soda, and Telegent Systems.

Colleen Kearney's original position as seminar director has evolved along with technology into the world of Internet-based meetings. Now, as the NCEO's seminar/Webinar director, she organizes several in-person seminars and about 45 Webinars each year. Colleen is a volunteer hike leader for Sierra Club National Outings-Hawaii Subcommittee.

As the research director at the National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO), Camille conducts research on legal developments and trends in employee ownership, including surveys on executive compensation at ESOP companies, corporate governance practices, equity compensation practices at private companies, and more. She is a frequent speaker on employee ownership, and has contributed to a number of NCEO publications. Camille also works on a projects to increase awareness and understanding of employee ownership at the state, national, and global level. She earned a J.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where she graduated cum laude. In her free time, she rock climbs, cooks, and bicycles around town with her husband, Nate.

Deborah has over 30 years of experience in event and meeting planning. Her job includes creating and handling budgets and timelines, obtaining sponsorships, organizing speaker selection, finding locations and negotiating hotel contracts, dealing with menus and on-site logistics, creating marketing campaigns and working with other staffers to develop conference and meeting structures, analyzing evaluations, etc.

She spent 20 years producing arts events, and the last 14 years as the NCEO's conference director. She received her CMP (Certified Meeting Professional) in 2000. An active member of MPI (Meeting Professionals International) she also serves on the board of directors of Litquake, a San Francisco literary festival, volunteering to help produce various festival events each fall. Since the fall of 2010, she has taught classes at the San Francisco State University College of Extended Learning in the certificate program in event planning; she currently teaches the core class "Fundamentals of Event Planning." Additionally, she sometimes acts as author tour agent for her writer husband. She has a B.A. in theatre from University of Michigan and a certificate in meeting planning from San Francisco State.

Sam LaTronica was born in Berkeley, California, but grew up mostly in upstate New York. He returned to the Bay Area in 2008 to attend UC Berkeley, where he studied political science and ethnic studies. Prior to joining the NCEO, Sam worked for the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association as the public programming intern. He plans to attend graduate school for public policy or urban planning. Sam enjoys reading, playing and listening to music, snowboarding, and taking trips with friends.

As the NCEO's director of publishing and information technology, Scott is in charge of all publications except the newsletter for members (the Employee Ownership Report). He designed and created the NCEO's present line of books and is the author or coauthor of several books himself, including the best-selling An Introduction to ESOPs (11th ed. 2010) and Understanding ESOPs (2008). He is an attorney and served at the U.S. Department of Labor as an attorney-advisor from 1991 to 1993 before coming to the NCEO. After obtaining bachelor's and master's degrees in music from UC Davis and UCLA respectively, he earned his law degree from California Western School of Law, where he graduated magna cum laude.

Scott created the NCEO's first Web site in 1994 and has maintained the NCEO's presence on the Internet since then. Twice a month, he prepares the NCEO's email bulletin and sends it to over 6,000 subscribers. As the NCEO's IT director, Scott also does everything from setting up new computers to repairing broken laser printers.

June Sekera works on a project to promote the use of ESOPs as an ownership succession tool. June was formerly the director of the Massachusetts Office of Employee Involvement and Ownership. She is a consultant on workforce development, economic development, and adult and secondary education. Her specialties include program design, policy analysis, performance management, and program evaluation. She has over 30 years of experience in workforce development, having held a variety of positions at the U.S. Department of Labor, at the state level, as director of a local workforce development council, and as a consultant to businesses, government, and nonprofit agencies. She holds a Masters in Public Administration degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.