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Matthew Epperson is a US southern cooperator by passion and by training, having invested ~10 years within the US consumer-owned grocery retail natural foods co-op movement in his college town of Athens, GA, before moving on to work in retail finance for one of the country's largest credit unions by asset size, and then onto a platform healthcare research co-op. He now serves as the Employee Ownership (EO) Domain Expert for Zolidar (including hosting the podcast Bicycle for the EO Mind available wherever podcasts are), which is a generative AI and SaaS platform building the "easier button" for the employees of small to medium businesses to buyout their workplaces through broad-based EO (whether worker co-op, EOT, or ESOP). He is a 2015 graduate of the Master's of Management: Co-operatives and Credit Unions program from Saint Mary's Sobey School of Business. In 2017 he founded the Georgia Co-op Development Center, the only statewide technical assistance provider in Georgia to startup and conversion co-ops. He is a contributing author to the newly released report The Practice and Promise of Social Co-ops. He loves teaching about co-ops, biking, hiking, zazen meditation, discussing books and movies, and his wife, Julia, and two kitties, Happy and Marvin. He is a black belt in a Japanese-Korean family of martial arts (Tango Su Doo, Aikido, and Jujitsu), a regular performer with his local improv comedy troupe Flying Squid Comedy, and identifies as an ambivert but is probably actually an introvert if he's being honest.