Succession Planning and Exit Strategies

Marcel Gagne is a Business Ownership Conversion Specialist with the Cooperative Development Institute, a New England non-profit. CDI assists and supports a Cooperative Economy with locally grown food, affordable housing/ownership, and business ownership solutions to existing businesses into co-ops through employee and community buy-outs. Business Ownership Services can assist with succession planning strategies, and/or business expansion solutions. CDI can also help with financial, feasibility, market, and business planning. He also has an extensive background in workforce development and worked in community & economic development for a decade with a nationally known organization, CEI. He has a training background in customer satisfaction, interviewing skills, supervisory implementation & coaching, as well as being a qualified Myers-Brigs’ Type Indicator facilitator.

Board of Directors, Board Chair @ Community Credit Union Lewiston/Auburn/Turner.

Lewiston-Auburn LA Metro Chamber of Commerce: Board of Directors, Executive Board, Chair Workforce Dev. /Educ. Committee. Ambassador, Business Advocacy Committee.

Chair of the Community Advisory Board at USM/LAC