The Community Connect team has significant experience in non-cash and exchange models including trade, barter and complementary currencies. Additional relevant experience also includes technology, finance, marketing and sales, economic ecology and sustainability, philanthropy and social enterprise.

Management

Annette Riggs
Ms. Riggs is a Founder, Board member and our Executive Director. She has over 20 years of experience with non-cash trade models such as complementary currency and exchange systems.  Ms. Riggs has in-depth knowledge of the infrastructure, processes, organizations and leadership within the $8 billion commercial barter industry and has applied this expertise for the social benefit of communities and economic ecology. She is an educator and valued speaker contributing most recently to the PlanetWork conferences, 2004 Green Festival, 2005 International Reciprocal Trade Association (IRTA) global conference, 2006 Regional Localization Networking Conference, and 2005 & 06 BALLE Annual Conferences.

Susan Pearn
Ms. Pearn is our Director of Operational Development. She has over twenty years of experience in companies ranging from large, multinational packaged goods firms to emerging businesses, including non-cash trading systems. Her functional depth encompasses business and financial strategy, alliance and partnership creation, and marketing and team development in both business-to-business and business-to-consumer organizations. More recently she has directed her efforts to social enterprises believing they can be both life serving and financially sustainable.


Advisor

Richard Logie
Mr. Logie is the Founder and CEO of The Business Exchange, a multi-service trade exchange based in Aberdeen, Scotland. Recognized for his significant contributions to the commercial barter industry, Mr. Logie has been instrumental in assisting Community Connect in adapting the GETS trading platform, as both a visionary and lead developer.  An engineer by training, and an entrepreneur and social benefit contributor by passion, he offers his considerable talents and expertise to industry associations and to other exchange practitioners, as he continues to contribute to the evolution of the barter/exchange industry.