Acquisitions Search - Due Diligence - Strategy and Process DevelopmentObran Cooperative is the first worker-owned conglomerate cooperative in the US. We are on a mission to scale worker-ownership and harness the engines of business to work for humanity. As a conglomerate corporation, we are growing in strategic verticals by helping retiring entrepreneurs transition their business through a sale. And we are scaling our business to grow wealth in the communities where we work.

Develop value-add market opportunities by providing support for businesses and non-profits undertaking new projects; coordination, research, valuation, partnership, system development. Fill missing team components and enable focus on the unique value proposition to manifest deeper, richer, and more successful outcomes with greater future potential.● Stewarding ESG investment thesis and execution process overhaul for $14M private investment fund.● Supporting Pandemic response through FP&A at ProjectN95.● Equitable Economy Fund - Investment Committee Member.

Promoted by company board, charged with setting up a new marketing team and partnership strategy, maintaining company operations, and continuing to execute and manage development. Ultimately, transitioned company to execute sale of assets and wind-down process after making recommendations to the board and a final vote.● Established hiring and employee management program. Hired the company’s first 2 employees and developed systems for directing their roles and responsibilities, training, and ensuring employee satisfaction and successful work outcomes.● Developed company sale plan. Helped the board to realize timing to sell company and assets and wind down operations, and managed this transition process and candidate search according to board directives to achieve optimal outcome.

Brought on to translate initial company vision into working MVP and operating company, and then oversaw growth through multiple generations, building out a development team and technical infrastructure, company legal, financial and operating structure, and facilitated fundraising and overall company strategy.● Developed technology architecture and systems. Wrote code, built infrastructure, and recruited and managed team for all feature development, managed code base, deployment, and testing, for iOS, Android, Rails and JS front-end design and develop, Rails back-end, and DevOps.● Created and grew company operational structure. Defined requirements and execution process for all company operational requirements, including finances, legal, liability, customer support, etc, allowing for successful implementation of partnerships, product offerings, and growth with minimal staffing, expense and resource requirements.

Coworking spaceIdentified a community of individuals and small teams in need of an affordable, flexible, personal place to work lacking in the community at the time and brought them together to fund and create a grassroots solution. Gathered monies and shared vision, and created the space and operation to provide and market this resource for the supporters and broader community as a whole. ● United disparate community and brought shared vision to fruition. Organized community in need of shared resource in the city that would truly represent them and fill their need and not just be a resource to be consumed if they fit into the market; defined shared vision, deployed volunteer team, found space, created operational structure to support unique purpose, maintained operations and implementation to take idea to business.● Managed operation through evolution of market and facilitated transition to next generation. Responsible for iteration and adaptation as the community and market changed, new spaces and options opened, our space and community developed. When the time came, facilitated the transition to a new generation of operator to carry on the mission.

Carbon offsets for everyoneBefore the era of ubiquitous embedded features on the web (plugins, widgets, shopping cart providers, etc), created a seamless solution for payments through a 3rd-party provider to facilitate contextual purchase of voluntary carbon offset credits for pollution attributed to purchaser. ● Created vision for new web technology solution and facilitated creation. Created a way for someone to make a purchase of a related item inline with another purchase currently underway, seamlessly, unobtrusively, and facilitated by a 3-rd party. ● Defined structure for engagement and executed partnerships for implementation. Researched and developed methodology for evaluating contextual pollution measures and how to offset. Executed partnerships and logistics for making solution available.

Recruited to provide top-tier management and facilitation at expanding portfolio of HOA properties in San Francisco. Responsible for facilitating board operations, resident coordination, administration of construction, litigation, and maintenance.▪ HOA management for portfolio of 12 buildings throughout the city (3 units - 120 units)▪ Budgeting, board management, member communication, legal and construction oversight, emergency on-call line, maintenance staff and service provider management, etc

Brought in to implement a wide variety of evaluations and opportunities the company offered to clients in a consulting capacity on their in-house real estate management and development projects. Facilitated development projects, created review and comparison evaluations and reports for service providers and market offerings, and cultivated new business opportunities and differentiators. ● Coordinating and analyzing 3rd-party Management hiring process for approx. 1500 residential units and 2 million sf of commercial● Management of development projects, Door-to-door, and phone-based, office and retail leasing. Acquisitions analysis, and Innovation in business approach and strategies