From the FFI board chair

Prepared Exclusively for FFI Members

November 29, 2019

D

ear Colleagues,
It was my pleasure and honor last month to be elected chair of the FFI board of directors for a three-year term. This is an exciting time in our field, as evidenced by the energy, generative discussion, provocative ideas, and tremendous opportunities for connecting with each other at the annual global conference in Miami. As I take this new role, I am committed to working collaboratively and diligently to promote the field, support members and advance the mission of FFI in the coming years as together we meet the challenges and confront the ever-changing future.

It was also my pleasure to meet more than 300 FFI members from around the world in Miami.

It was an action packed three days, during which we:

Confirmed newly elected directors at the annual meeting:
Mary Duke, Cynthia Lee, Lisa Morel, Maya Prabhu, and Jon Ramos

Elected officers for the board:
Debbie Bing, chair; Carlo Salvato, vice-chair; Asher Noor, secretary; Sandra McNeely, treasurer

Thanked outgoing board member for their services:
Dan Bayston, David Harvey, David King, Annie Koh, and Catherine Rossbach

Honored Award Winners

Academic Awards

Jasper Brinkerink

Best Doctoral Dissertation Award

David S. Jiang

Best Unpublished Research Paper

Franz W. Kellermanns

Best Unpublished Research Paper

Timothy P. Munyon

Best Unpublished Research Paper

M. Lane Morris

Best Unpublished Research Paper

FBR Awards

Francesco Barbera

Best Article published in FBR (2018)

Isabell Stamm

Best Article published in FBR (2018)

Rocki-Lee DeWitt

Best Article published in FBR (2018)

Emanuela Rondi

FBR Outstanding Reviewer Award (2018)

Achievement Awards

Ian Macnaughton

Richard Beckhard Practice Award

Dianne H.B. Welsh

Barbara Hollander Award

Patricia Angus

Interdisciplinary Award

STEP and the Business Families Special Interest Group (SIG)

International Award

Congratulated GEN Scholarship Recipients

Luciana Lucena de Lima

Crystal, Alliant Private Client Scholarship

Mita Dixit

de Visscher & Co. Scholarship

Shilpa Mirchandani

Waesche Family Scholarship

Elaine King

Fitzpatrick & Francis Family Business Continuity Foundation Scholarship

Esther Kong

AlTouq Group Scholarship

Welcomed the 2019 FFI Fellows

Left to right: Dennis Passis, John E. Neff, Jeremy Cheng, Shelley M. Taylor, David M. Karofsky, Rochelle Mendelsohn, Ronna J. Gyllenhaal, Brian K. Stafford, Daniel Lorenzo, and Anthony D. Macaluso (not pictured: David Harland, Wendy Ulaszek)

All in all, it was an incredible event and a tribute to the vibrancy of FFI itself and to the creative imaginations of the 2019 Program Committee.

Please encourage friends and colleagues to join the FFI community and mark your calendars for October 28-30, 2020 in New York City. To submit a proposal, go here.

With appreciation,
Debbie Bing
FFI Board Chair

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