Chris Michael is a financial advisor, economist, author, and professor. He founded the first financial services firm in the country dedicated to assisting business owners sell their company to an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) and has facilitated the transfer of roughly $750m in capital assets to over 3,000 workers in the course of more than 30 transactions. Chris is responsible for introducing the EOT as a new financial, tax, and legal mechanism to the United States and has published articles on the concept in leading peer-reviewed journals, including Tax Notes and Probate & Property. He is also a professor at Rutgers University, where he is a director of the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing.