Alison Lingane

FOUNDER, OWNERSHIP CAPITAL LAB

Alison Lingane is a nationally recognized employee ownership expert. Her passion for creating an economy that works for everyone was fueled in her early career by her role designing and leading micro-enterprise programs for urban youth. Alison is the Founder of the Ownership Capital Lab, which focuses on capital as a growth and scale lever for employee ownership. The Lab identifies, pilots, and supports the uptake of strategies for financing employee ownership at greater scale. This work builds on her 10+ years as co-founder of Project Equity, a leader in the movement to harness employee ownership to maintain thriving local business communities, honor selling owners’ legacies, and address income and wealth inequality, and on her role as founder and manager of the Employee Ownership Catalyst Fund.

Leading capital initiatives for Project Equity, Alison raised nearly $15M in capital to finance employee ownership transitions. She also launched Project Equity’s work partnering with over a dozen cities, counties and other government agencies throughout California and the U.S. Alison has her B.S. from Harvard and her MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, where she is currently a Social Impact Fellow.