FFI On Friday | July 06, 2018
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Featuring the FFI Organizational Members – Part III
Welcome to the third in a series featuring the distinguished organizations and educational institutions that are FFI organizational members.
BDO Advisory BV
BDO Advisory BV, based in the Netherlands, is an accounting and financial consultancy, working with families and family enterprise to secure stability and plan for the future. FFI members are Ruud Loos, Michel Prent, Bram Tijssen, Edvard van de Vijver, FFI Fellow, and Dieuwke van Woensel.
Joost Vat
Read a recent BDO Advisory whitepaper by Joost Vat “Outside influence creates cross-border perspective for family businesses”
Campden Wealth
Campden Wealth is an independent family-owned business providing knowledge, intelligence and connectivity for family businesses, family offices, and significant private investors worldwide. It delivers membership services, peer-to-peer private meetings, educational programs, proprietary research, news and analysis for families and family offices. All vital resources to their future success. FFI members are: Brien Biondi, David Braham, Nicholas Moody, and Dominic Samuelson.
Thanks to Campden Wealth for being a media sponsor of the 2018 global conference in London.
In conjunction with Xinova, CampdenFB has launched an online poll to find out how your family office or family business views digital disruption. Go here to complete the quick survey and share your thoughts about how this disruption is impacting the family enterprises you work with.
Nicholas Moody
Read “Kinnevik Maintains Growing Trend of Female Leadership in Family Business,” by Nicholas Moody.
EY Global Family Business Center of Excellence
EY Global Family Business Center of Excellence is designed to support family businesses, their owners, and their managers, wherever they operate in the world. The Center brings together advisers from the EY global network to share knowledge and insight to address family business challenges and provide seamless services for internationally based family-owned companies. EY has more than 100 FFI members from more than 30 countries, many of whom have earned a GEN certificate or are currently enrolled in the program.
Alex Hayward
Alex Hayward is a member of the GEN faculty.
Marnix van Rij
Read “Why family businesses are the natural home of innovators” by Marnix van Rij, EY Global Family Business Leader.
Morgan, Lewis & Bokius LLP
Morgan, Lewis & Bokius LLP, founded in 1873, provides comprehensive litigation, corporate, finance, restructuring, employment and benefits, and intellectual property services in all major industries, helping clients address and anticipate challenges across vast and rapidly changing landscapes. With 30 offices in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, the firm works with clients ranging from established global Fortune 100 companies, to enterprising startups.
John Kober
John Kober is chair of the FFI North Texas Study Group and recently chaired the ESOP Association Southwest Chapter 2018 Board Governance-Cybersecurity Symposium, presenting on “Cyber Security-What is it? Is it just an IT problem?”
Prairie Family Business Association (PFBA)
Prairie Family Business Association (PFBA) is an outreach center of the Beacom School of Business at the University of South Dakota that offers family businesses a platform to achieve harmony and longevity. PFBA provides family businesses with the tools to succeed through high quality education and collaboration. FFI members are Larry D. Hause, FFI Fellow; Sandra McNeely, former FFI board member; Laura Schoen-Carbonne, and Kurt Whitesel.
PFBA will host a Next Generation Retreat from September 11-12 in Gary, SD. Go here for more information.
Larry D. Hause
Larry is the 2010 recipient of the FFI Interdisciplinary Award.
Sandra McNeely
Sandra currently serves on the FFI Finance & Audit Committee.
Premier Family Business Consulting
Premier Family Business Consulting is a family business consulting firm in Southeast Asia that provides holistic services to integrate the family and business systems. The firm champions family unity by placing it at the heart of all processes, believing that healthy and meaningful family relationships are the means to family business success across generations. FFI members are Corazon Canete; Neil Montesclaros, CFBA; Jonathan Ramos, CFWA, and Theresa Ramos, CFBA.
Stetson University Family Enterprise Center
Stetson University Family Enterprise Center was created in 1998 to address the challenges that family-owned and managed businesses face. It offers the nation’s first major and second-oldest minor in family business, with a board of advisers who keep the program grounded in practical, real-world experience and innovative and engaging programs. FFI members are J. Peter Begalla, Isabel C. Botero, Sylvain Daudel, and Ram Subramanian.
Isabel Botero
Isabel Botero’s article “Differentiation Through Family Business Brands” was recently published in FFI Practitioner.
Sylvain Daudel
Sylvain Daudel, professor of practice in family enterprise and director of the Family Enterprise Center, is the author of “Debunking (again) the Dis-continuity Myth”, an article recently published in FFI Practitioner.
Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM) Family Business Center
Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM) Family Business Center, founded in 1999, provides consultancy and advice to business families. The Center’s services support the preservation of the family entrepreneurial legacy and enable the transformation of the governing bodies and communication schemes of the business family. UDEM members are Pepe Bucio, Salvador Guajardo, Maria Eloisa Trevino, and Jose Angel Vazquez.
The Family Business Center sponsors the UDEM Award Adalberto Viesca Sada for research papers in the field of the Latin American family business. Go here for information on the 2018 award—submission deadline is August 31.
FFI Organizational Members
FFI organizational members are from Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, UK and USA.
Go here to see the first in the series and here for the issue featuring the second group.
If you have four or more people in your organization who are or would like to be members of FFI, organizational membership may be for you. Contact Lenny Fogel, Member Services, at membership@ffi.org.
Summer – Easy Listening
The topic of effective family governance has a long history in the family enterprise field and in FFI. Francesco Lombardo recently shared his thoughts on the subject in a podcast titled, “Finding Your Safe Space,” which was produced by FFI organizational member, Tharawat Magazine.