Pre-Conference
Narratives: Shifting Paradigms in Family Enterprise
CENTURY CLUB, NEW YORK CITY, 7 W 43rd St, New York, NY 10036
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1:30PM–6:00PM
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1:30PM–6:00PM
Sponsored by Patricia Annino, Judy Green, and Helena von der Esch
This distinctive preconference brings together perspectives from art, history, and storytelling to explore how family enterprise narratives are preserved, interpreted, and reimagined across generations.
- 1:30PM Welcome
Helena von der Esch, Formue - 1:40PM Storytelling: Setting the Stage & Telling the Story
Interview: with Peter Gallagher on Roles; Interviewed by FFI Fellow, John Davis.Panel Discussion
This panel examines approaches drawn from literature, visual art, and theater, to exploring how narrative forms illuminate the complexities of family enterprise while frequently blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction.Presenters:
- Gifford Booth, CEO of TAI Group
- Elijah Edwards, YumYum Designs
- Sam Simmons, Reel Legacy
- Patricia Annino, moderator
- 2:45 Break
- 3:10PM Art Collections: How Art Collections often Reflect Family and Family Enterprise Trauma
A presentation by Martha Frick Symington Sanger, author and great-granddaughter of Henry Clay Frick. - 4:15PM History
This panel will focus primarily on the generational perspectives since family and family enterprise narratives are often quite different from one generation to the next.Presenters:
- Charles Avery Fisher, Fisher Wallace Laboratories, 2nd generation
- Kimberly Go, JSG Group of Companies, 3rd generation
- Lansing Crane, Crane & Company, 6th generation
- Reception to follow at the Century Club