Paul Lipke

JOHN ABRAMS is founder and CEO of South Mountain Company (SMC), a 41-year-old integrated architecture, engineering, building, and renewable energy company committed to triple bottom line business practices. Located on Martha’s Vineyard, South Mountain has been a worker cooperative for 28 years and was among the first B-Corps in Massachusetts ( http://www.southmountain.com/). John’s book COMPANIES WE KEEP: Employee Ownership and the Business of Community and Place, was published in 2008. He blogs at http://www.companywekeep.net/ and lives at Island Cohousing, a neighborhood designed and built by South Mountain.