Board of Directors

Doug Gamble
Gamble was an International Representative of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE) 1995-2002 and the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU), 1985-1995. He is currently a member of the boards of directors of the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee, and the Socio-Technical Systems Roundtable.

Michael Locker
Locker is the founder and president of Locker Associates, Inc., a New York economic consulting firm that specializes in corporate restructuring, buyouts, feasibility studies, developing business plans, and performing due diligence. He is a recognized authority on reorganizing troubled companies through employee stock ownership plans, and a leading steel industry analyst, publishing and editing for the last eleven years a monthly newsletter, Steel Industry Update. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Michigan. He has taught economics and social science at Booklyn College.

John Simmons
Simmons is president of Participation Associates, a Chicago-based management consulting firm that works to improve the performance of union leaders, chief executives, school principals and senior management teams in numerous sectors of the economy. Simmons is also president of Strategic Learning Initiatives, a non-profit organization serving public schools. He is author of the book Working Together: Employee Participation in Action published by Alfred Knopf, which won the Employee Stock Ownership Association's Book of the Year Award.