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MINSUN JI

“Minsun Ji (Ph.D.) is the Executive Director of The Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center, a nonprofit based in Colorado that helps businesses learn about and convert to employee ownership. She was also a Colorado Governor’s Commissioner on Employee Ownership (FY 2019-2020) and has been actively engaged in labor-cooperative issues as an Executive Committee Member at the Union-Coop Council of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC). She is also engaged in building worker-owned platform cooperatives in different cities in the U.S. and has recently launched The Drivers Cooperative – Denver. A labor-community organizer, activist scholar, and popular educator, she was a research fellow at the Institute for Cooperative Digital Economy at the New School of Social Science and a J. Robert Beyster Employee Ownership Fellow at the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University.”

LAURIE GANONG JONES

“Laurie Ganong Jones is a founding board member of the Colorado Venture Capital Authority serving two terms which included positions as  Chair and Vice Chair.  A serial entrepreneur, she is currently co-founder of Plain Skincare LLC in Sterling CO.  The company develops and markets products under the brand Rideau Organics.  She is a business consultant with East Colorado SBDC, advising small business clients on financial, technology, and strategic planning topics.   Previous investment experience includes Edward Jones Financial Advisor and supporting the IPO team for Sykes Enterprises.  Sykes acquired Jones Technologies, which Laurie co-founded with her husband Dan. They both stayed on with Sykes past the IPO and assisted in efforts to grow Sykes into a global leader in outsourced tech and customer support.  She has a BA in Economics, from the University of CA Davis, and an MBA from Pepperdine Graziadio School of Business.”