C2BE: Center for Community based Enterprise

C2BE's Executive Board includes the following members:

• Phillip Cooley – Co-owner, Slows Bar BQ / general contractor, O'Connor Development Group, L.L.C.
• Scott Alan Davis – Executive Director, Vanguard Community Development Corporation
• Michael J. Friedman – Partner, Honigman, Miller, Schwartz & Cohen, LLP; C2BE Chair
• John Heiss – Network Manager, Greater Detroit Network of Social Innovators; C2BE Secretary
• Lawrence Jackson – CEO, Emerging Enterprises, Inc.
• Deborah Groban Olson – Attorney, Law Office of Deborah Groban Olson; C2BE Executive Director
• Harriet B. Saperstein – Urban Consultant & Retired Executive Director, HP Devco, Inc.
• David A. Spitzley, Ph.D. – C2BE Researcher/ Webmaster
• Robert Spitzley – Retired, Ford Motor Company Auditor, C2BE Treasurer
• Deb Younger – CEO, DLY Group

The Center has also drawn together a Board of Advisors who share the goal of enhancing the economy of our region, including (institutional affiliation for identification only):

• Willie Bell – Principal, Bell Development & Trustee UAW Local 22
• Dave Biskner – Chief Operating Officer, Biznet Internet Solutions
• Dan Carmody – President, Eastern Market Corporation
• Burt Chojnowski – Managing Partner, BrainBelt Consulting, Inc.
• Al Cholger – Staff Representative, United Steelworkers
• John Cleveland – Vice President, Innovation Network for Communities
• Jacob Stevens Corvidae – Green Program Mgr, WARM Training Center
  
• Elaine Crawford – President, IBEW Local 58
• Lisa Dugdale – Executive Director, Think Local First
• Brad Dyer – Regional Manager, Michigan AFL-CIO Human Resources Development Inc.
• Ann Eatherly – Ph.D, Eatherly Foundation
• Edward S. Egnatios – Senior Program Officer, The Skillman Foundation
• Basima Farhat – Marketing Director, Banners Nationwide
• Henry Fradkin – Principal, Value Extraction, LLC
• John Freeman – Executive Director, Health Care for America Now
• Gil Friend – Principal, Natural Logic
• Lee Gaddies – Team Leader, M.O.S.E.S. & Board Member B.C.C.I.
• Mark Gaffney – President, Michigan AFL-CIO
• Joseph J. Gross – President /CEO, Sustainable Systems, Inc.
• Leonard Grossman – Principal, Lone Pine Investments
• Mark Hackshaw – President, Highland Park Business Association
• Tracy S. Hall, Ph.D. – Director of Business Development & Operations, Corporation for a Skilled Work Force
• Jim Hettinger – President and CEO, Battle Creek Unlimited, Inc.
• Charity Hicks – Chair-Public Policy Workgroup, Detroit Community Food Security Network
• Rita Hillman – Director of Community Development, Michigan Interfaith Trust Fund
  
• Ian Chan Hodges – Principal, Responsible Markets
• William S. Hoffman – Principal, WSH Group
• John Hooper – Detroit Community Credit Union & Episcopal Economic Justice McGehee Fund
• Keith Hughes – President, Intellectual Property Commercialization Group
• Dave Ivers – Secretary/Treasurer Metro Detroit AFL-CIO
• Charlene Turner Johnson – CTJ Executives, Inc.
• Deborah Jones – CEO, Detroit Alliance for Fair Banking
• Alan Kaniarz – Principal, AK Services
• Barbara Karchin – President, Karchin & Associates
• Lisa Katz – Senior Policy Associate, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce
• Mary Landry – Chair, Maryland Brush Company
• LaMar Lemmons - Former State Representative, Director, Eastside Community Center
  
• Dan Loague – Executive Director, Capital Formation Institute
• Daniel Luria – Research Director, Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center (MMTC)
• Elisabethe Mack – Project Director, Communities & Schools
• Cathy McClelland – President/CEO, Detroit Entrepreneurship Institute
• Kurt Metzger – Director, Detroit Area Community Information System (D-ACIS)
  Lawrence A. Molnar – Associate Director, Institute for Research on Labor, Employment and the Economy
  
• James Hurd Nixon – Chair, Sustainable Systems, Inc.
• Rosa Ovshinsky – President & COO, Ovshinsky Innovation, LLC
• Tova Perlmutter – Executive Director, Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice
• Marty Peters – Retired Founder, SMARTEYE Corporation
• Paul Saginaw – Co-Owner & Founding Partner, Zingerman's Community of Businesses
• Linda Smith – Executive Director, U-SNAP-BAC
• Jeremiah Staes – Principal, Portage Media
  
• John Van Camp – President/CEO, Southwest Solutions
• Jackie Victor – Principal, Avalon International Bakery
• John Viera – Director, Sustainable Business Strategies, Ford Motor Co.
• Sheree Walton – President, Mustard Tree Cooperatives, Inc.
  
• Ray Waters – President, Shorebank Enterprise Detroit / Managing Director, Detroit Community Loan Fund
• Todd Wickstrom – Director, ORAI Group
• Mike Wimberly – Executive Director, Friends of Detroit & Tri-County