This Week's Guest:


Air Date: December 27, 2018
Technical Support

William Spriggs, Economic/Co-op Development Dir. at the Bermuda EDC

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Vernon and William discuss his plans to educate the Government and constituents of Bermuda about the value of cooperatives in all sectors. Mr. Spriggs is responsible for a wide range of small and medium sized business socio-economic development projects and programs. He is also responsible for designing the foundational framework for cooperatives to develop and thrive within Bermuda, and is a relative neophyte to the cooperative development space. The British territory island nation that supports some 65,000 people and resides within the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, currently has only 1 true cooperative in the likes of the Bermuda Credit Union. Personally, William enjoys designing study groups to support Bermuda’s administrative professionals with passing the Certified Administrative Professional or CAP exam, offered bi-annually by the International Association of Administrative Professionals out of Kansas City, MO; his innovative study strategies to master the IAAP CAP exam body of knowledge have minted 26 new Bermuda CAP awardees to date. William is a Certified Management Accountant and a Certified Administrative Professional.

Our host, Vernon Oakes, is a consummate advocate for cooperatives. He is a Past President of the National Association of Housing Cooperatives, and he’s served on several boards and committees to advance the interests of cooperatives. Recently, he served on the Limited Equity Cooperative Task Force, established by Anita Bonds, At-Large Member of the Council of the District of Columbia. Vernon is an MBA graduate of Stanford University, who has used his business acumen to benefit the community, by promoting the added value of the cooperative business model. 

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