The planning team behind Start.coop is uniquely equipped to innovate cooperative development. We are bringing together some of the brightest and most entrepreneurial minds in the co-op community for this project.
Greg Brodsky
Founder of The Bike Cooperative, Co-founder of the Independent Brewers Alliance, and Board Chair at Cooperative Development Institute
Lindsay Gaskins
President New Business Ventures at CCA Global, former vice-president at Sandbox Ventures incubator
Felipe Witchger
Co-founder & Director of Community Purchasing Alliance which is a social-purpose cooperative that leverages the buying power of schools, churches, and synagogues
Camille Kerr
Associate Director at the ICA Group, is a well known co-op developer with expertise in ESOPs, worker cooperatives, and other structures that empower workers and communities, focusing in child care and home care
Nathan Schneider
Co-founder of platform co-op conference. Known thought leader, professor at University of Colorado Boulder.
Howard Brodsky
Co-founder, CEO at CCA Global Partners, NCBA Board, Board Chair at Cooperatives for a Better World, NCBA Co-op Hall of Fame
Helene Lesterlin
Program Director at Accelerator of Trillions, designs and launches white label accelerator programs and curriculum with a focus on social innovation startups and equity crowdfunding; Co-Founder and Managing Director of CO, a co-working co-op in Rhinebeck NY