Celebrating FFI Organizational Members: Part III

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April 11, 2025

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oday we continue our 2025 series featuring FFI organizational members. These issues highlight the contributions of distinguished associations, educational institutions, and professional organizations from across the globe.

In this edition, we feature six more exceptional organizations that are increasing the global footprint of the field and sharing their invaluable knowledge with the FFI community. Discover how these members are shaping the future of the field and enriching the wider FFI network. Stay connected as we spotlight more organizational members in upcoming issues!

Generation Transition Advisors

Generation Transition Advisors (GTA) is a family business advisory firm dedicated to helping family enterprises worldwide navigate respectful and effective transitions in ownership and leadership. GTA supports current and next-generation owners by designing governance systems, shaping policies that reflect the family’s vision and legacy while fostering unity, strengthening cross-generational communication, guiding next-gen engagement, and advising on portfolio strategy and growth initiatives.

Samuel Bruehl

Mariana Restrepo

Henri-Lee Stalk

Hilla Talati

Hemenway & Barnes

For more than 160 years, Hemenway & Barnes has helped individuals, families, owner-managed businesses, and nonprofit organizations with a range of legal, tax, investment, and personal issues, with their professionals often serving as trustees. From estate planning to charitable giving, business succession, and intergenerational wealth management, the firm provides integrated advice and service delivery.

Mark Elefante

Kirsten Lovett

Ryan McManus

Laura Naylor

2025 Global Conference presenter

John Siciliano

Sarah Waelchli

2025 Global Conference presenter

IMD Global Family Business Center

Established in 1988, IMD Global Family Business Center is a center of excellence in research, education, and outreach for family enterprises globally. IMD helps family businesses, their boards, and executives to ensure family unity and multi-generational success. This work informs a series of open educational programs, in addition to a more customized approach focusing on the needs of families, ownership groups, and businesses.

Virginie Boillat-Carrard

Matthew Crudgington

CFBA

Alfredo De Massis

FFI Fellow
FBR Associate Editor
Barbara Hollander Award

Marleen Dieleman

Peter Englisch

FFI Fellow
Former FFI board member

Anouk Lavoie

2025 Conference Program Committee

Martin Liechti

Nathalie Martin

Peter Vogel

J.P. Morgan Private Bank

With both global reach and local expertise, J.P. Morgan Private Bank offers individuals and families a highly personalized and goal-orientated private banking experience—one designed to help them explore all the possibilities their wealth creates.

Alfonso Baigorri

CFBA/CFWA

Sarah Collins

Ana Estrada Fernandez

Paul Knox

Felicia Law

Carol Mushriqui

CFBA

Lidia Navines

CFBA/CFWA

Maya Prabhu

FFI Fellow
GEN Faculty
Former FFI board member

Yannick Stehr

Karen Tan

Singapore Management University

Since 2010, Singapore Management University (SMU) has recognized the emergence of Asian business families and discerned that they require specifically contextualized thought leadership and applied knowledge. In response to the growing needs of business families in Asia, SMU established the Business Families Institute (BFI) in 2012. The BFI aims to strengthen the ecosystem of entrepreneurial business families and stakeholders by addressing business family-specific issues such as succession, family governance, entrepreneurship and wealth management.

Kenneth Goh

Annie Koh

2025 Global Conference presenter
Former FFI board member

Esther Kong

FFI Fellow

Hwee Hoon Tan

Mandy Tham

CFBA/CFWA

STEP

STEP is a global professional body, with more than 22,000 members comprising lawyers, accountants, trustees and other practitioners that help families plan for their futures. STEP’s Business Families Special Interest Group, established in 2007, focuses on what makes business families distinct, their particular challenges, and how to best address them. STEP and the STEP Business Families Special Interest Group received the 2019 FFI International Award.

More than fifty STEP members are part of the FFI membership, and they hail from countries around the globe. In addition to the FFI Fellows and board members displayed below, STEP’s FFI members include GEN certificate holders Mita Dixit, CFBA; Mercy Edukugho-Aminah, CFWA; Velitchka Hristova, CFWA/ACFBA; Joergchristian Klette, CFWA; Lynn Lee, ACFBA/ACFWA; Ria N. Mankee-Sookram, CFBA/ACFWA; Anne Prenez, ACFWA; Nicholas Smith, ACFBA; and Babetta von Albertini, CFBA.

Mary Duke

FFI Fellow
Former FFI board member

James Grubman

FFI Fellow
Richard Beckhard Practice Award

Nicholas Jacob

FFI Board of Directors

Asher Noor

FFI Fellow
Former FFI board member

Christian Stewart

FFI Fellow
Interdisciplinary Award
Co-chair of FFI Asian Circle VSG

Harvey Taraday

FFI Fellow

Mark Walley

STEP Chief Executive

FFI ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS

FFI’s mission is to be the most influential global community of thought leaders in the field of family enterprise. We foster and publish research, offer educational programs, and share knowledge to develop a professional association of multi-generational family enterprise advisors, consultants, and educators.

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Two Days Left to Submit Suggestions for Board Nominations

The 2025 Nominating Committee welcomes suggestions from the FFI membership for nominees for Board of Director positions. These terms will begin immediately following the Annual Meeting in November 2025 and will conclude as of the Annual Meeting in 2029.

Submit a Nomination by April 13

Previous Edition

Today, we celebrate the achievements of those who graduated from the GEN (Global Education Network) program in the first quarter of this year.

These graduates, from around the world, have successfully completed a challenging program, engaging in collaborative learning alongside their peers and expert faculty. Along the way, they’ve built a global network of peers dedicated to advancing multi-generational family enterprises.

Their achievements are commendable, and we celebrate their success.