FOX Business Advisory Board
Sara Hamilton Founder and Board Chair of Family Office Exchange, Sara is a recognized visionary in the private wealth community. While a trust officer at Harris Bank in Chicago in the late 1980s, Sara witnessed the emergence of family wealth management as an industry. Hundreds of U.S. families became centi-millionaires overnight through leveraged buyouts that spawned private financial offices commonly called family offices, to manage family assets and educate wealth owners. Sara was the first professional to recognize family offices as a complex market segment in wealth management. |
Barbara Goodstein Barbara brings experience in driving long-term corporate value for both start-up and high-growth businesses in the tech and financial services segments. Barbara’s operational experience includes the following roles: President and CEO at Tiger21, Chief Marketing Officer at Vonage, Chief Marketing Officer at AXA Equitable, Senior Vice President at JP Morgan Chase, and President and CEO at Instinet.com. | |
Maarten de Groot Maarten de Groot is Co-Chair of the FOX Global Institute for Enterprise Families and the CEO of single-family office Eligius. He is Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) candidate at Vrije University Amsterdam, School of Business and Economics, focusing his research on family capital, family governance, and wealth preservation. His research considers the role of the family office and the complexities of non-financial considerations of ultra-high net worth enterprise families, leading to impact and wealth preservation. | |
Nate Hamilton, CFA Nate is currently Co-founder and Managing Partner of Heritage Partners Group, a private equity investment and operations platform focused on the acquisition and development of consumer retail and information services businesses. Prior to founding Heritage, Nate worked in private equity, investment banking, and sales and trading across several institutions including Goldman Sachs, UBS, and as a co-founder of FDX Capital, a direct-investment platform built for FOX family offices. | |
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Nick Rhoads Nick is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Heritage Partners Group, a private equity investment and operations platform focused on the acquisition and development of consumer retail and information services businesses. Prior to founding Heritage, Nick worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and in wealth management at Fidelity Investments, where he was consistently recognized as a top producer firm-wide and served on several key leadership committees. | |
Carl Robinson, Ph.D. Carl is a Founding Partner of Vantage Leadership Consulting and served as the Managing Partner for eighteen years. Vantage Leadership, based in Chicago, specializes in executive assessment and development. Carl is a clinical psychologist who has spent most of his career assisting businesses in the management of change and in developing strategies for succession planning and leadership continuity. |