The mission of AFHE is to be the leading resource for the on-going advancement, collaboration and education of practicing attorneys and other professionals who provide multi-disciplinary counsel to family-held enterprises.

More than 40 members of AFHE are FFI members, including FFI Fellows Doug Baumoel, Bonnie Hartley, Michael Hartley, Linda Mack, Paul Milne, Dennis Passis, Steven Rolfe, Jeff Savlov, Blair Trippe, and Michael Whitty.

BanyanGlobal understands that family business owners face difficult choices about what’s best for both the business and the family. Banyan helps families identify the decisions they face, the options they have, and the implications of each choice—as they navigate that process together as owners.

BanyanGlobal’s FFI members are Vladimir Barbieri, Josh Baron, Nick Di Loreto, Ben Francois, Marion McCollom Hampton, Rob Lachenauer, Aline Porto, Omar Romman, Michelle Shafer, and Judy Lin Walsh.

Family Office Exchange (FOX) is a peer-to-peer network for ultra-wealthy families and their family offices and advisors who utilize FOX’s resources for advice, networking, education, and best practices in wealth management.

FFI members are Mindy Kalinowski Earley, Gabrielle Griffin, firm founder and CEO Sara Hamilton, Hilary Leav, Peter Moustakerski, Scott Muench, Matthew Murphy, Mia Starr, David Toth, and Scott A. Winget.

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 Institute pioneers family business research and education at the heart of business as a force of good. 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 outstanding 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, 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, Massimo Baù, Joaquín Cestino Castilla, Kajsa Haag, Josh Hsueh, Carla Gonçalves Machado, Leif Melin, Mattias Nordqvist, Daniel Pittino, and Markus Plate.