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James Steiker is Chairman and CEO of SES Advisors, Inc. and founding partner of Steiker, Fischer, Edwards & Greenapple, P.C. Jim is a corporate, pension and tax attorney with more than twenty years of experience as a legal advisor in Employee Stock Ownership Plans and other employee ownership matters, focusing primarily on ESOP design, installation and transactions in privately held companies.

Jim is a trustee of the Employee Ownership Foundation, a member of the Finance Committee of The ESOP Association and serves on the board of the National Center for Employee Ownership. He is a frequent speaker and author on ESOP matters, serves as a director of several employee-owned companies, and is a member of Vistage, an organization of CEOs.

Jim is a graduate of New York University School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden-Snow Scholar, and of Wesleyan University. He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania.

Featured Speaking Engagements:

February 2007: Presentation on Fiduciary Issues in S Corporation ESOP Companies at The ESOP Association's 10th Annual S Corp Conference in Marco Island, FL

November 2007: Presentation at The ESOP Association's 17th Annual Conference in Las Vegas, NV on the role of Warrants

November 2007: Presentation for the NCEO's webcast on "Using ESOPs as an Acquisition Strategy"

September 2006: Presentation on Corporate Governance for the NCEO's Challenges and Solutions for Mature ESOP Companies conference

April 2006: Presentation before the national meeting of the Materials Handling and Equipment Distributors Association

December 2005: Presentation on the "Essentials of ESOPs for the CPA" before the New York State Society of CPAs in New York City, NY

November 2005: Presentation on "Legal Aspects of Governance in an ESOP Company" at the 2005 ESOP Association Two Day Technical Conference in Las Vegas, NV

September 2005:  Presentation at the ESOP Association's Repurchase Obligation Meeting in Chicago, IL. Topic - Planning For and Forecasting Repurchase Obligation

September 2005: Participation in a Legal and Technical Issues Panel at the NCEO's "Get the Most Out of Your ESOP" meeting in St. Louis, MO.

Selected Publications:

Spring 2006 -- Contributed "Selling In: Liquidity & Succession Using an ESOP" for the MHEDA Journal

September 2005 -- Column in Family Business Magazine

March/April 2005 -- Quoted in "The ABCs of ESOPs" in Engineering, Inc. Magazine

July 2004 -- Contributed "ESOPs for Liquidity and Succession in Engineering Firms" for Leadership and Management in Engineering - a publication of the American Society for Civil Engineers

Spring 2004 -- Contributed "ESOPs in S Corporations - Look Out for Opportunities and Scams" in the Philadelphia Estate Planning Council newsletter.

June 2000 -- Featured in The American Lawyer article, "Preserving Ben & Jerry's Lefty Legacy"

Summer 2000 -- Contributed "ESOP Fiduciary Committees" for the NCEO's Journal of Employee Ownership Law and Finance.

Fall 1998 -- Contributed "Seller-Financed ESOPs and Leveraged QRP Transactions" for the NCEO Journal of Employee Ownership Law and Finance.