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Fabian Bernhard, co-chair, 2020 Nominating Committee
Dan Frosh, co-chair, 2020 Nominating Committee
Debbie Bing, ex officio
Russel Baskin
Peter Leach
Kathy Wiseman

Heinz-Peter Elstrodt, PhD, is an advisor to and board member of family businesses and a guest lecturer at London Business School. He is also a Senior Partner Emeritus at McKinsey & Company. In his long career as a Senior Partner with McKinsey, he founded and led McKinsey’s global Family Business practice. He has been working closely with a large number of leading family businesses, mostly in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. His work aimed at taking the whole system into account, i.e., including generational transitions, shareholder, family, and corporate governance issues as well as corporate strategy, finance, and organization. He has been a frequent speaker on family businesses, e.g., at the World Economic Forum, and has published extensively. In addition, he led the Latin American region of McKinsey from Brazil, and he was a member of the Council of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), working extensively on issues of economic development in the region.

Ken McCracken is an FFI Fellow and as a family business consultant and teacher, he has worked in parts of Europe, Asia, and North America. He has supported FFI through membership, teaching in the early days of the GEN Program, and by contributing to the Research Applied Board of Family Business Review, FFI Practitioner, and FFI on Monday. He was also chair of the Conference Program Committee for FFI 2019 in London. Ken is the author and teacher of family business education programs for the Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and is a former recipient of the FFI Interdisciplinary Award and the STEP Award for Family Business Advisor.