Martin Staubus

Associate Director/ Beyster Institute

Martin Staubus is the associate director of the Beyster Institute, a university-based center of expertise on employee stock plans based at the Rady School of Management, UC San Diego.  The Institute offers consulting services to business leaders, advising on the effective use of employee stock programs.  His 30-year professional career has focused on workplace issues, specializing in employee stock ownership arrangements (including ESOPs, stock options, employee purchase plans, synthetic equity and more).  He has served as a practicing attorney, with positions at the US Department of Labor and in private practice.  From 1988-91 he was the deputy director of the ESOP Association, a trade group of companies with ESOPs based in Washington DC.  He has also served as VP of human resources at a Silicon Valley foodservice company and as a consultant to hundreds of business leaders on the effective design and use of employee stock ownership programs.   He serves on corporate and non-profit boards of directors.   A graduate of UC Berkeley (economics), Martin’s training also includes a law degree and MBA.

Martin can be found at the Beyster Institute in La Jolla, CA.  Find him on Linked In at http://www.linkedin.com/pub/martin-staubus/13/656/b5a.   Or simply email him at mstaubus@ucsd.edu.

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How Do Owners Make Use of an ESOP? One More Example – Buying out an investor

How Do Owners Make Use of an ESOP? One More Example – Buying out an investor

Many business owners find themselves in a situation in which they have one or more investors who bought into the company some time back.  Their Read More

How Do Owners Make Use of an ESOP? Another Example

How Do Owners Make Use of an ESOP? Another Example

An ESOP is a very flexible thing.  It can be applied in lots of ways, for lots of purposes.  The only thing that will always Read More

How Do Owners Make Use of an ESOP?

How Do Owners Make Use of an ESOP?

An ESOP is a very flexible thing.  It can be applied in lots of way, for lots of purposes.  The only thing that will always Read More

So what’s it Like Living with an ESOP?

So what’s it Like Living with an ESOP?

Readers of my posts on ESOPs (employee stock ownership plans) know that an ESOP offers a very attractive path for cashing in some (or all) Read More

Selling to an ESOP: What Exactly Are the Tax Advantages?

Selling to an ESOP: What Exactly Are the Tax Advantages?

“The tax savings generated by a sale to an ESOP can be equal to the total value of the stock sold.”

In my last post Read More

Selling to an ESOP: What’s Up with That?

Selling to an ESOP: What’s Up with That?

“It ain’t what people don’t know that worries me; it’s what they think they know that just ain’t so.”

Mark Twain?  Will Rogers?  Surprisingly enough, Read More