Meet Howard Brodsky
Social Entrepreneur | Shared Ownership Visionary
Meet Howard Brodsky
Social Entrepreneur | Shared Ownership Visionary
Howard In Newsweek: America’s Consolidation Obsession Threatens Family Businesses
Howard Brodsky is the Co-founder and Chairman CCA Global Partners. In the 40 years of his leadership, CCA Global Partners has grown into 24 companies serving over 1 million family businesses around the globe.
CCA Global ranks amongst one of the largest retail companies in America, and the fourteenth largest retail cooperative in the world according to the World Co-op Monitor. Howard has dedicated his life to building and sustaining family businesses around the world through the economic engine of CCA Global Partners.
Howard attends the inaugural CM50 Leaders Summit— Joining 80 visionary cooperative CEOs and leaders
Capitalism with a Conscience – People before Profit – Reducing Inequality
What surprises people the most about CCA Global and Howard is that while he is the co-Founder and Chairman, he does not own a single share of the company. As a cooperative, CCA Global is owned by the members, the individual business owners operating their individual family businesses. The success of CCA Global Partners was never to be his singular success, but a force for good shared with all who are a part. Each member has a voice and the cooperative company has shared billions in profits back to its members.
Howard was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts and raised in Manchester, New Hampshire. Early adversity was a major catalyst for Howard, he lost his father when he was only thirteen years old, but his memory fueled a lifelong passion for and commitment to small business. Howard is a graduate of Wesleyan University. Howard has two sons, Jeff and Greg. His wife Joan is founder and director of the New Hampshire Dance Collaborative, and together they live in Manchester, New Hampshire.
“When you can create value for others, and have people rise up around you to create a better life for themselves, how do you measure that kind of impact? I made a choice to help change the lives of other people, and that is what I continue to do.”
- Howard Brodsky
CEO Gallery
Streets of Toronto, 2017.