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Peter Englisch, co-chair, 2021 Nominating Committee
Dan Frosh, co-chair, 2021 Nominating Committee
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Patricia M. Angus, JD, MIA, TEP is the founder and CEO of Angus Advisory Group LLC; adjunct professor and founding managing director of the Global Family Enterprise Program, and faculty director of Enterprising Families Executive Education at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. For more than 25 years, she has provided legal and strategic advice to global families and firms with multi-generational businesses, trusts, and philanthropy. Her publications include “The Beneficiary Primer: A Guide for Beneficiaries of Family Trusts” and “The Trustee Primer: A Guide for Personal Trustees.” A frequent contributor to FFI Practitioner, Patricia is an FFI Fellow, former GEN faculty member, and in 2019 she received the FFI Interdisciplinary Award. She holds a BA (cum laude) from Amherst College, a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, and a JD from George Washington University Law School.

Richa Arora brings over 19 years of diverse global experience in her role as a Senior Family Enterprise Advisor at KPMG Canada. She has held various senior leadership roles in her career and is passionate about helping empower people, teams and organizations achieve their best potential. She works with multi-generational families, family enterprises and family office leaders and advises on the set up and implementation of family offices, oversee their multi-family office and provides family dynamics, governance, and succession advisory. Richa has led several speaking and writing engagements on the Future of work, role of leadership, and issues UHNW Families/ Enterprises are facing. She has a Bachelor of Arts Degree from University of Delhi, India, a Software Engineering Diploma, an Advanced certificate in Advising the Family Business and Family Business Governance (Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioner- STEP) and has obtained her Family Enterprise Advisor Designation (Family Enterprise Canada).

Dr. Sanjay Sharma is the Dean of the Grossman School of Business at the University of Vermont since 2011. Before UVM, he was the Dean of the John Molson School of Business in Montreal Canada and the Canada Research Chair in Organizational Sustainability. He is a pioneer in corporate sustainability research with 9 books and over 100 articles in top tier academic journals. Among his many research and practice awards are the Distinguished Scholar Lifetime Award from the Academy of Management (2017) and the Fetner Fellowship from the University of Syracuse (2018). Amongst others, he serves on the Boards of the Global Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI), the Advisory Boards of the ISCTE Business School-Portugal and the College of Business-University of Sharjah. He is the Vice-Chancellor of the International Academy of Management, a think tank of invited global thought leaders (including several Nobel Laureates) and corporate CEOs. Before pursuing an academic career, he was a senior manager and CEO with multinational corporations for 16 years.