Established in May 2023 under the umbrella of Dubai Chambers, the Dubai Centre for Family Businesses supports family-owned businesses in achieving continuity and a successful transition between generations by providing impactful services and initiatives. Dubai Chambers is a non-profit public entity that supports Dubai’s vision as a global player by empowering businesses, providing innovative value-added services and access to influential networks.

Their FFI members include Adib Rashid, Badreya Almutawa, Faisal Alshehhi, Deema Dajani, Taghrid Alsharif, Hussain Al Ansari, and Mai Alduwaikat.

Prairie Family Business Association helps family businesses thrive through generations. The Association is a key outreach center of the University of South Dakota’s Beacom School of Business. More than 260 businesses are part of membership, which is open to any family business in the U.S. and across the globe. Programming is offered throughout the year with the premier program, the annual hybrid family business conference, held each April.

FFI members are Stephanie Larscheid, Prairie Family Business Association Executive Director; Peter Hauck, Assistant Director; Mason Van Essen, Business Development Manager; Callie Tuschen, Office Manager; Kyle Kangas; Marek Kolinski; and Sandra McNeely, FFI Fellow.

PwC helps family businesses manage ownership and growth at every stage, by providing support with family governance, succession planning and business continuity, next generation education and transition, private wealth management and family office, philanthropy, values and purpose, and more. Serving businesses at various points in their journey to success, PwC provides insights and solutions to stay fit for growth and move forward at the right pace. PwC’s Global NextGen Survey 2024, Success and Succession in an AI World, surveyed over 900 NextGen members and reports on their views on the potential of generative AI to transform family enterprises and on what their enterprises would need to do to prepare for the profound changes to come. With the Global Family Business Survey, released every two years for the past 20 years, PwC stays up to date on the interests and concerns of family businesses globally, addressing and anticipating key trends and issues.

More than 100 PwC family business experts worldwide are FFI organizational members, including FFI Fellows Francesca Ambrosini and Peter Englisch.

STEP is a professional, international, and outward-facing organization whose primary purposes are to improve public understanding of the issues that families face in relation to inheritance and succession planning, and to promote education and high professional standards among its members. STEP’s Business Families Special Interest Group 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 30 STEP members are part of the FFI membership, and they hail from countries around the globe, including Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean.

TriBridge Partners, LLC helps protect the assets of its clients by bridging the exposure gaps to create continuity through the expertise of the firm’s associates in combination with strategies and solutions. The firm assists its family business clients with continuity planning, multi-generational transitions, and compensation and benefits. 

FFI members are Jason Ditto, Heath Hykes, FFI Fellow David M. Morris, John C. Morris, Kim Natovitz, Chris Schneider, Sarah Speed, and Paul Younkins.