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 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.