February 20, 2026

Celebrating the 2026 FFI Organizational Members: Part I

Since 2010, Exaudi Family Business Consulting has guided family businesses in the preservation of their legacy. Exaudi specializes in advising business families through their processes of professionalization, generational succession, and legacy transmission. They also accompany clients through strengthening governance structures and preparing the next generation to achieve successful continuity of the family business.

The Exaudi team of advisors is based in offices throughout the Americas and Europe to give direct support to enterprising families during their consulting processes.

Exaudi’s FFI members include FFI Fellow Pablo Aure Fariñez, Mauricio Chaparro, Ferran Fisas, Sissi Graessel, Maria Molina, Daniela Naressi, FFI Fellow Guillermo Salazar, and Luciana Salazar.

Grossman School of Business at University of Vermont develops leaders of sustainable businesses that address complex economic, social, and environmental challenges in a dynamic global environment. Its Family Business Initiative pioneers family business research and education, and the online Certificate of Graduate Study in Sustainable Family Enterprise (CGS-SFE) provides a comprehensive, relevant framework to lead family enterprise into new sustainable, and purpose-led business approaches. FFI’s collaboration with the Schlesinger Global Family Enterprise Case Competition (SG-FECC) at Grossman has been in place since 2013.

Grossman’s FFI members are Thomas I. Chittenden, Rocki-Lee DeWitt, Evelyn Micelotta, Dave Mount, Pramodita Sharma, and Sanjay Sharma.

The Centre for Family Entrepreneurship and Ownership (CeFEO) at Jönköping International Business School (JIBS) is one of the leading research environments worldwide in family business studies, with more than 60 scholars, 30 affiliated researchers, and many visiting scholars. While having a specific focus on ownership and family business issues, researchers associated with CeFEO also conduct extensive and impactful research on topics like strategy, organization, accounting, entrepreneurship, innovation, sustainability, and internationalization.

FFI members include Hanna Almlöf, FFI Fellow Massimo Baù, Joaquín Cestino Castilla, Kajsa Haag, Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh, Linnea Lind, Carla Gonçalves Machado, FFI Fellow Leif Melin, FFI Fellow Mattias Nordqvist, Daniel Pittino, and Markus Plate.

Relative Solutions is a pioneer in the field of family enterprise. The firm serves as an integral strategic component to the family enterprise, guiding their processes and facilitating decision-making. Relative Solutions works with families on issues of governance, the meaning and impact of wealth, family office development, family education and leadership development, succession and transition planning, and family philanthropy, tailoring its offerings to each family’s unique capabilities, culture, and goals.

Relative Solutions is the generous sponsor of the 2026 Best Unpublished Research Paper Award.

FFI members are Vanessa Garibaldi, Carolyn D. Greenspon, Cathy Holuk, Rebecca Meyer, Bryn Mars Monahan, and FFI founding member Fredda Herz Brown.

The Family Business Consulting Group has earned a reputation as a valuable resource in the family business community helping both the family and the business. Its team of consultants has served over 3,000 client families in 70 countries to achieve one common goal: protect the integrity of the family and the enterprise for future generations. FBCG’s work touches all aspects of the business and family system, identifying the areas where better processes, shareholder and family education, communication, and alignment will lead to better business performance and a stronger family.

The seventeen FBCG members who are members of FFI include the following FFI Fellows, Achievement Award recipients, and GEN graduates. John Ward, consultant emeritus at FBCG, is a founding member of FFI.