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Join the San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD) and the San Francisco Small Business Development Center (SBDC) in celebrating San Francisco's newest employee-owned business, Rockman et al, and hear why Saul chose to transition to employee ownership.

This event will also include a panel discussion with successful employee-owned Bay Area businesses Recology and Rainbow Grocery Cooperative, with insight as to why they chose employee ownership as a succession plan.

San Francisco Business Transition & Employee Ownership Forum

Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Time: 9:00 - 11:00 AM

Location: War Memorial Veterans Building

401 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 302 (Third Floor)

San Francisco, CA 94103

Agenda

• Breakfast & Networking

• Welcome by the City of San Francisco

• Acknowledgment of San Francisco’s newest employee-owned business, Rockman et al

• Panel discussion with representatives from employee-owned Bay Area businesses:

• Julie Bertani-Kiser, Senior Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer at Recology

• Gordon Edgar, Cheese Buyer for Rainbow Grocery Cooperative

The San Francisco Business Transition & Employee Ownership Forum is presented by Project Equity in collaboration with the SF Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD) and the SF Small Business Development Center (SBDC). The City of San Francisco has selected Project Equity for the important work of helping retain local businesses based on our innovative model for sustaining small businesses in communities both locally and across the country.