NCEO Welcomes New Directors

Thank you to all of the members who voted in the 2017 board elections. The staff and board of the NCEO give our congratulations to the new and returning directors, who will serve terms from April 1, 2017, to March 31, 2020.

The seven new directors are:

• Rich Armstrong, Great Game of Business and SRC Holdings Corporation
• John Case
• Kevin Long, Chang, Ruthenberg & Long, PC
• Sandra Reid, The Davey Tree Expert Company
• Glenn Ripley, Mission Bell Manufacturing
• Bill Roark, Torch Technologies, Inc.
• Joanne Swerdlin, Swerdlin & Company

Two incumbents, John Brown of the Business Enterprise Institute and Mary Stenvig of Realityworks, Inc., will be returning to the board.

Four directors will be leaving the NCEO's board: Steve Baker of the Great Game of Business, Adele Connors of Adworkshop, James Mauch of Tenmast Software, and Tom Roback of Blue Ridge ESOP Associates. James Mauch served as board secretary from 2014 to 2016. Tom Roback served as the board chair from 2013 to 2015. Thank you to all four for their generous and wise contributions to the NCEO and to employee ownership.