Your guides,
John & Kim
Each of us has particular areas of expertise. Sometimes they overlap. We bring them to you, together and separately.
John Abrams
In 1973, after a five-year back-to-the-land hippie odyssey, I co-founded South Mountain Company (SMCo). Fifty years later, this 40-person worker co-op is the world’s highest-scoring B-Corp. SMCo practices integrated architecture, engineering, building, and solar. On Dec 31, 2022, I relinquished my company ownership and employment and began the Next Chapter of my life. During the last ten years of my SMCo career, my colleagues and I dedicated ourselves to designing and inventing the second generation of South Mountain – the company after me. Next Gen South Mountain is launched with a new CEO, a remarkable leadership team, full alignment, and tremendous enthusiasm. They are ready and able to take this company beyond the limits of my leadership.
I am a co-founder of Building Energy Bottom Lines (a peer group network of 60+ Northeast U.S. businesses in the architecture and construction industry), and I engage in a variety of forms of community activism, mostly involving affordable housing. My writings include the book Companies We Keep: Employee Ownership and the Business of Community and Place, published in 2008 and is still in print today.
I serve on the steering committee and executive committee of The Coalition to Create the Martha’s Vineyard Housing Bank and the board of Camp Jabberwocky. I live with my partner Kim on Martha’s Vineyard, and I’m very lucky that my two children and five of my six grandsons live here too!
Kim Angell
In 2003 I co-founded Vineyard Tax Matters, Inc—a boutique tax and accounting firm—on the island of Martha's Vineyard. For 18 years, we served individual, business, and non-profit clients in every capacity, including consulting, full charge bookkeeping, and complete tax services. We sold that company in 2019 and thus Abrams & Angell was hatched.
My passion is to teach financial literacy and guide my clients through difficult financial circumstances, taking stock of where they are and what steps need to be taken to set them back on a steady course toward profitability and stability. This includes individuals who might have found themselves in special circumstances (death of a spouse, assisting/caretaking a relative or friend) or who have simply not been able to wrap their arms around their own financial picture.
I am deeply committed to the Island community and have volunteered for a variety of organizations and programs during the last four decades. Affordable housing has been a particular interest of mine. Currently, I serve on the steering committee and executive committee of The Coalition to Create the Martha’s Vineyard Housing Bank, I am a board member and treasurer of Village and Wilderness, Inc, and I serve on the Advisory Board for The Martha’s Vineyard Community College Consortium.
