Our featured guest is Nickolas N. Sypniewski, ASA, of Comstock Advisors. We sat down with Nick at #NCEO19 for a deep dive on ESOP Valuation.

In this episode we talk with Rob Snowden, ASA, ABV, of South Park Advisors [southparkval.com]. We sat down with Rob in April at the National Center for Employee Ownership conference (#NCEO19) to learn about South Park Advisors, and about his passion for working with business owners on situational problem-solving, succession planning, and business valuation. Robert Snowden is an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) of the American Society of Appraisers. He also holds the Accredit

In this episode, we sit down at #NCEO19 with Nickolas N. Sypniewski, ASA, of Comstock Advisors (www.comstockadvisors.com) for a deep dive on ESOP valuation. Nick Sypniewski, an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) of the American Society of Appraisers, is Managing Director in ComStock Advisors’ Cincinnati office. He has 25 years of experience in valuation, finance, and banking. has completed valuations for ESOPs, estate taxes, estate planning, gifting, mergers, acquisitions, sal

At #NCEO19, we sat down with Bruce Bickley, CPA, of 1042 Consulting. He takes a fiduciary approach to assist a company in selling to an ESOP in a tax-free transaction, and describes how this transaction takes place, as well as sharing some of the history of the reasoning behind the 1042 tax code. Listen to this episode on Soundcloud.

Our goal on The ESOP Podcast is to keep you up-to-date on all things ESOP, and to support the growth of all aspects of employee ownership. Some of our upcoming work towards that end: - Many of you have questions on Benefit Corporations, also known as B-Corps, and so we are preparing an explainer episode on this topic. - We'd like to extend a warm welcome to James J. Bonham, the new President and CEO of The ESOP Association. All of us in ESOP world can look forward to meeting

On today's podcast, we welcome back Kevin McPhillips, Executive Director/CEO of the Pennsylvania Center for Employee Ownership (PaCEO - ownershippennsylvania.org.) Kevin McPhillips describes the mission of PaCEO and shares what it is like to work with local and state government on an issue that has such broad, bipartisan support. We then get an overview of what we know so far about the 2018 Main Street Employee Ownership Act (MSEOA), which makes SBA ESOP financing easier. We

On this bonus episode of The ESOP Mini-cast, we talk with Tim Garbinski, outreach coordinator for the National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO) about the big plans for this year's national employee ownership conference in Pittsburgh, PA, #NCEO19, to be held April 9–11, 2019 (preconference on April 8). Registration is open now at www.nceo.org, and if you register before March 12th you'll get the early-bird discount. We look forward to seeing you there! Listen to this episo

We have had the good fortune to be involved with many excellent ESOP organizations over the years, and in this quick mini-cast, we share some of their ideas for fully engaging their employee-owners. And speaking of best practices: Employee ownership conferences are one of the best places to exchange ESOP ideas, and the early registration deadline for this year's NCEO national conference, #NCEO19 in Pittsburgh, PA, is March 12th. Listen to this episode on Soundcloud.

In this episode, we talk with one of our favorite (and busiest!) guests, Mike Shuey, who is on the NCEO Conference Host Committee this year, to hear all about how the conference has grown, and what we can look forward to at this year’s conference. There is something for everyone! Consider all the employee-owner roles in your organization when planning your team’s attendance. The ESOP Podcast team looks forward to seeing many of our listeners at #NCEO19 and sharing their voice

In this short mini-cast, we look at some of the employee-ownership conferences we'll be attending to start off 2019 right! - We will be at The ESOP Association's 2019 ESOP Professionals' Forum from February 7th - 8th in New Orleans, LA. As the name implies, this forum is for ESOP professionals only, and is a great opportunity to discuss issues specific to our field in detail. - We'll also be at #NCEO19, the National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO) Conference to be held A