Meet the Board of Directors

Nick Smallwood

Patron Member | 2023 - 2025

Nick Smallwood was born in Washington DC on November 1960 and is now CEO & President of Courier Corporation of Hawaii (CCH), which he has been since January 2000

Mr. Smallwood sits on the boards of Western Motor Tariff Bureau and the Hawaii Executive Association. He has three sons, David, Connor, Pierce.

Mr. Smallwood is also responsible for the start up of several companies. As a consultant to individuals seeking guidance and counseling, he helped Accenture Courier of Dallas, Texas, Courier Connection of Los Angeles, Tags Hawaii of Honolulu, Mainland Express of Honolulu, Garden Isle of Kauai and recently CCH Kauai, all achieving great success.

Mr. Smallwood grew up in Washington DC and then as a young adult resided in South Central Los Angeles. With no money for college and no formal training he still managed to become a young entrepreneur who knew growing up that hard work and common sense would be his foundation and that his will would get him where he dreamed of going.

Camille Kerr

Investor Member | 2021 - 2023

Camille is working to build a democratic economy in service to US social justice movements including organizations advancing Black liberation, immigrant rights, food justice, and the US labor movement. She specializes in cooperative start-up development, managing complex worker-centered initiatives, supporting existing businesses to become worker-owned, as well as policy advocacy and drafting.

In partnership with Chicago organizers, Camille helped found ChiFresh Kitchen, a worker cooperative food service contracting business which is owned and determined primarily by formerly incarcerated folks living in the south & west sides of Chicago. She is currently a nonvoting shareholder and management consultant for ChiFresh.

Camille is also a board member of Shared Capital Cooperative, Urban Growers Collective, EG Woode, Obran Cooperative, and the Interaction Institute for Social Change. She is a member of the Council of Cooperative Economists and an advisor for Certified Employee Owned. She is an executive fellow with the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing at the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations, where she co-directs the Project on Unions and Worker Ownership with Sanjay Pinto.

Before starting Upside Down Consulting, Camille served as the Associate Director of The ICA Group, the Director of Field Building at the Democracy at Work Institute and the Director of Research at the National Center for Employee Ownership. She has a law degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Law where she was awarded a human rights fellowship and graduated cum laude.

Joseph Cureton

Patron Member | 2022 - 2024

Joseph Cureton is the Chief Coordinating Officer at the Obran Cooperative, (the first worker-owned conglomerate) where his work focuses on bringing new worker directed enterprises to life. He is a serial entrepreneur and founding member of Core Staffing, Bmore Black Techies, and Tribe Works all projects that fight to overcome the challenges faced by modern workers. He is also a software engineer (Drexel University) and classically trained chef (Johnson and Wales) by trade.

Greg Beyna

Patron Member 2023 - 2025

Greg Beyna is a jack of all trades. He’s made a living as a tour guide in our nation’s capital city, driving a forklift for a big box retailer, fundraising for his alma mater, coordinating volunteers for a small non-profit, and working as a temp for a variety of workplaces before becoming a staffing manager himself. Currently he is serving Direct Support Professionals in central Maryland as the lead of Core Staffing. He holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

Ethan Winn

Patron Member | 2023 - 2024

Ethan works as Director of Technology Products at Obran, collaborating with worker leaders across the cooperative to build technologies that serve our members, improve our work, and bring the benefits of our community to even more workers. He is a third generation workplace democracy activist, and has been a member of cooperatives that practiced highly structured corporate governance systems, heart-centered consensus approaches, and decentralized organizational models.

Ethan is excited to bring his past experience to serve Obran’s laser focus on providing tangible benefits to our members and building a lasting institution with profound impact. As a board member, he helps to formulate the tough questions we need to be asking of ourselves throughout our work, and continue to develop an effective, empowering governance system together.