At The Back Office Cooperative, we believe in using our skills and experience to support member organizations and strengthen the nonprofit sector as a whole.
Linda Zager is President & CEO at The Back Office Cooperative (BOC). Linda has 40 years of corporate, small business and consulting experience.
Over the span Linda’s career, responsibilities included Finance, Sales, Business Management, Expense Management Consulting and Executive Leadership. From 2008 to 2020, Linda was a Principal Consultant with the global firm Expense Reduction Analysts. While there, she implemented a partnership agreement to become the Executive Director at BOC in 2014, and has significantly grown BOC’s membership. Linda is passionate about the non-profit community and quickly became an instrumental leader in how to best assist organizations to better manage administrative expenses and drive more money to the missions.
Linda works with executives and stakeholders in the non-profit sector, to understand their strategies, challenges, priorities, and determine how BOC members reduce administrative costs and improve cash flow, without giving up what is needed to achieve the mission of the organization.
Linda has a BS in Business Administration from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, and an MBA in Finance from Seton Hall University in South Orange, NJ.
Grace Holland joined BOC in 2020 as the Sales & Operations Manager. She has previously worked in the finance and investment industry at Prudential Financial, supporting C-level executives in an administrative and operational capacity. Prior to her time at Prudential, she participated in Amate House, a post-graduate year-of-service program, where she gained valuable experience at the Chicago Legal Clinic. As the Intake Specialist there, she worked to provide legal aid to those experiencing mortgage foreclosure.
Grace is dedicated to community building and strengthening the nonprofit sector. She is originally from Erie, PA, and holds a BA in History from John Carroll University.