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After pursuing a career in the skies - at 19, he was the youngest licensed jet transport pilot - and as a tech investor, Stockton Rush turned his curiosity and passion for exploration into OceanGate, a company that builds deep ocean submersibles and offers researchers and citizens alike a chance to take an expedition of a lifetime. We heard his pio...

During and post pandemic affluent consumers of all generations will work remotely more often, enabling them to become more digital, and generating more personal data, than ever before. Milton Pedraza, Luxury Institute CEO, shared insights and recommendations on how human emotional intelligence optimized with innovations in advanced personalization ...

Every family office has a long list of labor-intensive, repetitive activities that require data processing across multiple applications and currently consume precious staff hours. What if there were another way? In this session you will learn about new developments in Robotics Process Automation (RPA) and Intellig...

Gone are the days of meeting a client for lunch, chatting about your offering, and closing the sale over dessert. Clients today look different from those of the past. They make networked purchasing decisions by committee, with diverse roles, interests, and backgrounds. With access to more information and a greater ability to share it, they demand v...

Women have become financial powerhouses exercising decision-making control over $11.2 trillion of investible assets. Women investors from inheritors and spouses to wealth creators and wealth owners are taking a more significant role in managing their families' investments in addition to their philanthropic endeavors. We are also in the midst of...

The 2017 Tax Act presents planning opportunities around the choice of entity. Existing clients with pass through entities like S-Corporations and LLCs need to consider if maintaining this status is prudent given the changes in the tax law. In the past C-Corporations considered elections to become pass through entities to avoid two tiers of tax. Wha...

Many families have adopted strategic approaches to the way they run their businesses and their life in an integrated fashion. Some have applied business expertise to their philanthropic causes, and others have pursued impact across all of their investments to promote social and environmental returns. Representatives from three families will share t...

Increasingly, companies of all stripes are being stressed to manage their reputations in a world that is always on, more social, and more contentious than ever. The problems faced can be even more challenging for family-owned businesses. Family members and businesses are increasingly asked to take stands on social concerns and political issues by t...

Learn how non-family business executives can lead discussions on succession and why you may want to facilitate this process. In this session, Charlie and Jonathan will share data and case studies from successful (and unsuccessful) successions at leading family enterprises and engage in a group discussion to help answer the following questions:What ...

Successful business-owning families know that a set of timely decisions is required to continually prepare and grow the family-operating companies. For the long-term success of the family, timely and thoughtful exploration of future planning for self and family is also required, but often overlooked. This session presents ideas and best practices f...

In Skin in the Game, a proposed TV show with a format similar to Shark Tank, the audience effectively runs the game, deciding which businesses get funded. Audience members also have the option to invest their own capital in the Skin in the Game fund. More than fun and games, it was designed with projections for job creation and ...

Family businesses transitioning from the owner-manager stage to a larger and more diverse family ownership group often lack the practices necessary to assure owner alignment and avoid conflict. Many times, owner groups are perched on the lip of what we call the “conflict spiral,” ready to descend into fractured communication and hostile...

Giving up company ownership can be the largest and most important step in a business owner’s career and many successful entrepreneurs are not well prepared to take it. In this break-out, the panel will delve into former business owners’ journeys, providing insights and strategies for the challenges business owners face when deciding wha...