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The Global Family Business Champions

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Our Contributors

Our panel of expert contributors and authors brings together leading family business voices from across the globe. Drawing on diverse cultures, disciplines, and professional backgrounds, they offer thoughtful analysis, original research, and real-world insight on the issues that matter most.

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Together, they ensure Family Business United reflects a truly global conversation-rigorous, inclusive, and informed by experience from every corner of the world.

Rekha Bhagavatula

Rekha Bhagavatula is the Founder of EternaVaults, a continuity infrastructure platform for family businesses, family offices, UHNW families and their ...

Alistair Shaw

Alistair is a director at Livingston James and leads their Family Business practice with over 20 years’ experience in recruitment, partnering with som...

Jodie Gammon

Jodie is a Director in the SME Team at Rickard Luckin. She joined the firm as a trainee in 2008, where she trained and qualified. Based in the Leigh o...

Darren O'Connor

Darren joined James Cowper Kreston in 2005 and is a partner within the firm supporting family businesses with bespoke accountancy, tax, and strategic ...

Simon Warne

Simon is a tax partner at Crowe specialising in advising individuals and companies on their tax affairs. Simon is particularly interested in the issue...

Sara Taylor

Sara Taylor is an accomplished and dedicated leader in vocational, workforce and leadership development, with a career spanning more than two decades....

Mel Archbould

Mel Archbould is a Family Business Strategist and founder of Cloud-Busting, helping family-owned businesses navigate succession, leadership, governanc...

George Isaac

George Isaac has forty years of experience in family business, senior executive management, management consulting, and private equity investing. As th...

Claudia Binz-Astrachan Ph.D

Claudia is an advisor and head of governance at Generation6. Claudia is a family business educator, researcher, and advisor, and the head of the Famil...

Trevor Dickinson

Trevor Dickinson is a fourth-generation family business leader, Executive Chairman of the Dickinson Group of Companies, founded in 1910, and founder o...

Tim Humphries

Tim Humphries is a Partner and Head of Tax at RPG Crouch Chapman, advising owner-managed businesses, family businesses, and the entrepreneurs behind t...

Dr Ram Raghavan

Ram works with clients turning behaviour, data and AI into measurable performance. He works to help leaders diagnose what is really holding back perf...

David Twiddle

David Twiddle is the Managing Partner of TWYD & Co, a specialist executive search and leadership advisory firm working with family businesses, family ...

Guillermo Salazar

Guillermo is a family business member and an expert on corporate governance and family legacy succession. He has served as an advisor for numerous bus...

Martin Stepek

Martin is a leading mindfulness teacher and long-time supporter of family businesses. A former director of his own family’s business, he went on to fo...

Niki Sterling

Niki is a board advisor and commercial strategy specialist working with leadership teams to shape clear, practical strategies and ensure they translat...

Dr Blessing Enakimio

Blessing Enakimio is Founder and CEO of Blé Global and a Value Realisation Partner to CEOs, Boards and Investors. She specialises in de-risking execut...

Robin Somerville

Robin Somerville helps shareholders, directors, partners and businesses resolve their disputes and legal problems. As a barrister, mediator, workplac...

Gian Luca Nieddu

Gian Luca is the founder and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MUSE STRATEGY, an international consulting firm started-up in April 2022, with offic...

Jo Kerr

Jo Kerr is the founder of KERRNEL, a strategic consultancy working with independent and family-owned businesses at moments of transition. With over 25...

Catherine Grum

Catherine Grum is the founder of Catherine Grum Consultancy Ltd, working with business families, family offices, and their advisers on succession, fam...

Martin Lindsey

Martin Lindsey is a senior executive at the wealth management firm Brooks Macdonald, currently serving as the Director of Financial Planning and Head ...

Ben Fowler

Ben is the Founder and Managing Director of Western Pension Solutions and has more than 20 years’ experience of managing and consulting on UK and inte...

Ant Morse

Ant Morse is a futurist and author who successfully predicted the rise of Generative AI and AI Agents before the world had even heard of ChatGPT. He i...

Christian Mancier

Christian has been with Gorvins since joining as a trainee solicitor. After qualifying in 2003 he has become one of the equity partners, sepcialising ...

Russ Haworth

Russ is a specialist adviser, facilitator, and coach working with family businesses and family offices. He has over fifteen years’ experience supporti...

David Krajíček

David is a family business expert, educator, and ecosystem builder. He is the founder of Family Business Week - (leading platform for families in busi...

Charlie Leichtweiss

Charlie is the Managing Director of Experts in HOW, LLC, a family business consulting firm dedicated to helping clients understand how to build and su...

Duncan Jackson

Duncan became Buckles’ first ever CEO in April 2018, taking up the role after serving the firm for more than 20 years. As Chief Executive, he leads th...

Josh Baron

Josh Baron is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, where he teaches strategy and family business courses. Josh is also the co-author of the ...

Paul Andrews

Paul is the Founder and CEO of Family Business United and has spent over 25 years championing the family business sector. He is a passionate advocato...

Baljeet Kaur

Baljeet qualified as a solicitor in 2013 and is now a Partner after joining Tees Law in January 2019, advising business clients on all aspects of comp...

Cetin Suleyman

Çetin's belief is that it's not technical advice that many owners lack; it's someone that can help them join the dots and make sense of that advice as...

Dr Nupur Pavan Bang

Dr. Nupur Pavan Bang is Founder & Chief Family Business Navigator at Bodhi Advisory & Nurturing Group. She writes and advises on family enterprise, go...

Wes Mason

Wes Mason is a Partner at RPG Crouch Chapman and leads the firm's Owner Managed Business team. With more than 25 years’ experience as a Chartered Acco...

Damien Lipp

Damien provides guidance, support, and strategic advice to multi-generational families and their advisors on the complex human dynamics that influence...

Octavian Pilati

Octavian was born into a story that spans a millennium, but was forged in the arena of a multi-million euro crisis. Legacy, he learned, is not a gift ...

Enzo Calamo

Enzo Calamo is the founder and CEO of Lugen Family Office and Medici Family Office. He is a visionary leader, social entrepreneur, and an award winnin...

John Broons

John Broons is a globally recognised family business specialist and author with over 40 years of experience helping multi-generational companies. Base...

Henrik S. Nielsen

Henrik S. Nielsen is an Advisor on Ownership. He has owned and operated companies with his own capital for more than twenty years. He developed The Th...

Mette Ballari

Mette Ballari works at the intersection of family offices, human development and the future of ownership. She works with owner families and next-gener...

Greg McCann

Greg McCann is a leading expert in family enterprise and leadership development, the founder of the consulting firm McCann & Associates and a founding...

David Werdiger

David Werdiger helps family enterprises and navigate transitions and make good decisions together. His diverse background gives him a powerful mix of ...

Maria Øverli Jansson

Maria Øverli Jansson is a strategy and brand leader with more than 15 years of experience working across Norwegian, Nordic, and global organizations. ...

Beverley Mitchell

Beverley Mitchell is a family business advisor and leadership coach who helps organisations turn their values and culture into genuine competitive adv...

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