Brief bios on the nominees are below. Additional information can be found in the online ballot.

Please sign in here using the username and password shown below. Select up to three of the candidates, completing the ballot before 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Monday, September 26, 2022.

Username: please use your email address as your username
Password: ffi2022

If you have any questions, please contact the FFI office at ffi@ffi.org.

Sincerely,
Richa Arora, co-chair, 2022 Nominating Committee
Dan Frosh, co-chair, 2022 Nominating Committee
Josip Kotlar
Keng-Fun Loh
Laurent Roux

Jeff Cobb is an entrepreneur, author, and strategic advisor with more than two decades of experience in the global market for lifelong learning. He is the co-founder, along with his wife, of Tagoras, a firm that helps organizations in the learning business maximize the reach, revenue, and impact of their offerings and is also the author or co-author of multiple reports and books, including Leading the Learning Revolution: The Expert’s Guide to Capitalizing on the Exploding Lifelong Education Market and ShiftEd: A Call to Action for Transforming K–12 Education. Jeff has served on the governing board of NIGP: The Institute for Public Procurement, to which he was specifically appointed as an education thought leader, as well as on the advisory board of Future Learning, the Professional Development Section Council of the American Society of Association Executives, and the research committee of the Learning Guild.

Dan Frosh, CFBA, CFWA, is an advisor at Cambridge Advisors to Family Enterprise and currently serves as the managing editor of FFI Practitioner. For the past four years, he has served on the FFI board of directors.

Dan works with multi-generational families to develop strategies for the successful continuity of their enterprises, primarily focusing on designing and implementing effective governance practices, building strong family relationships, holistic estate planning, succession planning, and the ownership dimension of family companies. As an attorney, he also advises families on inheritance planning, ownership transfers, and preparing the next generation to inherit assets. Dan also speaks on family business topics at conferences and academic institutions.

Prior to joining Cambridge Advisors, Dan served as the membership and program director at FFI and was business manager for the Harvard Lampoon, the iconic publication of Harvard College. Dan received his B.A. in Political Science from the College of Wooster and graduated cum laude from Suffolk Law School with a focus on estate planning and closely-held enterprises.

Dr. Panikkos Poutziouris is a fellow of the Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS), where he leads the Enterprising Families and Family Offices module of the CJBS Executive MBA. As professor of entrepreneurship and family business at UCLan Cyprus, he launched the Centre for Entrepreneurial Development, Alliance & Research. Prof. Poutziouris served for almost two decades on the Faculty of Alliance Manchester Business School, where he co-developed the MBA in Entrepreneurship.

Prof. Poutziouris is founding fellow and former president of IFERA (International Family Enterprise Research Academy), served on the advisory board of the Institute for Family Business (UK) and was a consultant to the European Commission and OECD on family business and entrepreneurship policy matters. More recently, he chaired the program committee for the 2021 London FFI Global Conference. He is the recipient of the 2011 FFI International Award in recognition for his contribution to the development of family business initiatives across the globe. He became an FFI Fellow in 2012.