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The Global Family Business Champions

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.

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

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...

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...

David Werdiger

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

Damien Lipp

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

John Broons

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

Beverley Mitchell

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

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...

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...

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...

David Twiddle

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

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...

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 ...

Niki Sterling

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

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...

George Isaac

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

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 ...

Sara Taylor

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

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...

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