Alison Lingane is a nationally recognized employee ownership expert. A serial social entrepreneur, she has dedicated her career to leveraging business as a force for good. She is the Founder and CEO of the Ownership Capital Lab, which plays a critical market-making role in the employee ownership capital marketplace. The Lab identifies, pilots, and supports the uptake of strategies for financing employee ownership at greater scale. This work builds on Alison’s 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 founder and manager of the Employee Ownership Catalyst Fund.

Alison’s successes have been recognized by fellowship invitations from Echoing Green, The Aspen Institute, Rutgers University, the Just Economy Institute, UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and Ashoka, where her work was featured in the book America’s Path Forward. In 2022, with her Project Equity co-founder Hilary Abell, Alison received the Heinz Award for the Economy, established to honor the memory of U.S. Senator John Heinz and to celebrate the vision and spirit that produce achievements of lasting good.