Antonio Conejero Urban
Company: Grupo Siro
Country: Spain
Generation:2nd
| | Grupo Siro is a food industry company specialized
in the manufacturing of biscuits, noodles and snacks.
It operates in Spain as well as abroad.
Antonio is Member of the board of directors of the Family Firm Institute Forum (IEF)
Vicepresident of the Madrid Family Firm Development Association Forum (ADEFAM)
Member of the IEF-Territory Association Parity Committee.
He represents the NxG on the Board |
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Luc Darbonne
Company: Daregal
Country: France
Title:President of Darome Group
Generation:4th
| | Luc Darbonne represents the fourth generation of Darbonnes involved in the family business. In 1974, he earned a degree in mechanical and electrical engineering. He holds the patent for inventing the IQF process for frozen herbs. Mr Darbonne is President of the Darome Group, Daregal, SA and Daregal, Inc., and serves as Chairman of California Vegetable Specialties and Supherb Farms.
He is also a member of Board of Directors of the French Agricultural Association.
President of the FBN France Chapter (Family Business Network) |
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Ingrid G.C. Faber
Company: Faber Halbertsma Groep
Country: The Netherlands
Title:CEO
Generation:3rd
| | Ingrid Faber is CEO of the Faber Halbertsma Group, vice chairman of FBNed and former chairman of Young Management VNO NCW (Dutch Federation of Industries).
The Faber Halbertsma Group is the largest full-service supplier of wooden packaging in Western Europe. The Faber Halbertsma Group produces pools, repairs and trades pallets.
The company consists of nine production companies and four pallet pooling companies in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France and the United Kingdom. Its head office is based in Eck en Wiel (the Netherlands) . The group has more than 700 employees and an annual turnover of 250 million Euro. |
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Matteo Fumagalli Romario
Company: SOL Group
Country: Italy
Title:Director
Generation:3rd
| | Matteo Fumagalli Romario is in charge of SOL S.p.a. Internal Audit Office and one of the directors of some of the companies belonging to SOL Group. He is a member of the 3rd generation of the Fumagalli family that, together with the Annoni family, controls SOL Group. Matteo joint SOL Group in 1993 after having being employeed in Kraft Suchard Group for 4 years.
The SOL Group, founded in 1927, is engaged in the production, applied research and marketing of industrial, pure and medicinal gases as well as being involved in the home care and in the welding markets. Today, SOL is an Italian based multinational company present in 15 European countries and it has 1331 people employed. The annual revenue is over 300 million Euro. It is listed at the Milan Stock Exchange. The SOL Group is based in Monza, Italy.
Matteo is an active member of AidAF the Italian FBN chapter where is responsible for educational programmes. He was also one of the members of a project team within FBN that prepared next generation initiatives, resulting amongst others in the Next Generation Working Group. |
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Patrice Gaidzinski
Company: Eliane Ceramic Tiles
Country: Brazil
Title:Administration Council Member
Generation:3rd
| | Patrice Gaidzinski was founder of the Next Generation Committee, with whom she developed the “Building the Future Program – BTFP”.
Former Executive Director of the FBN Brazil chapter, she is now member of the FBN Brazil board and member of the Administration Council of Eliane Revestimentos Cerämicos as well as coordinator of the Family Council Committee. |
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Sophie Lammerant Velge
Company: FBNet Belgium
Country: Belgium
Title:FBNet Communication Director
Generation:4th
| | Sophie Velge-Lammerant is Member of the Board of the Family Council as well as of the Bekaert Academy taskforce.
Bekaert produces a highly diverse range of advanced wire products (steel wires and steel cord) and advanced coatings which find applications in many sectors from the automotive, construction, offshore & telecom to the textile industry. Founded in 1880, Bekaert is now active in 120 countries.
Sophie is member of the Board and of the Executive Committee of FBNet, the Belgian chapter of FBN, where she is in charge of strategy development (in particular of the Next Generation Programme) |
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Alfonso Libano Daurella
Company: Cobega, S.A.
Country: Spain
Title:CEO
Generation:3rd
| | Alfonso Líbano Daurella belongs to a Family who started its Business in 1853, although he represents the third generation regarding the Coca-Cola Business, Cobega, S.A., concessionary for Catalonia, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands and North part of Spain acquired in 1951. He is at present Chief Executive Officer of Cobega S.A. and Chairman of Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling company S.L., concession of Coca-Cola for 12 African countries, being also Vice President or Director of other Coca-Cola Bottlers in Spain and Portugal, as well as Trustee of The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation and Vice President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Spain. He owns other different businesses always in the Family scope.
He is related with the Family Business Institute (IEF) since 1991, having been Secretary of the Board of Directors from 2000 up to 2004. Currently he is Member of the International Commission and Vice President of GEEF in Brussels since 2004. |
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Thierry Lombard
Company: Lombard Odier
Country: Switzerland
Title:Senior Partner
| | Chairman of the Board.
Thierry Lombard is Managing Partner of Lombard Odier. The private bank was founded 1796 in Geneva, Switzerland and Thierry Lombard represents the 6th generation of the Lombard family in the bank. Lombard Odier headquarters are in Geneva, but the bank is represented in the world's main financial centers and employs close to 1'800 people.
Thierry Lombard is currently Chairman of the FBN Board and is active on a variety of other boards, including that of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Science & Technology. He works for several environmental, medical, and humanitarian foundations. In particular, he chairs the Foundation for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). |
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Joachim Schwass
Company: IMD
Country: Switzerland
| | Dr. Joachim Schwass has extensive management experience as a second generation member of a family active in producing and distributing industrial tools in a number of countries around the world.
His main business activity today is a group of cash & carry outlets in tools and machinery.
In addition to his business activities, he researches and teaches Family Business and Entrepreneurship. He is former Executive Director of the Family Business Network. |
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M.V Subbiah
Company: Murugappa Group
Country: India
Title:Former Chairman of the Board
Generation:3rd
| | After a long career in the family business Mr. Subbiah recently handed over the responsibility as chairman of the board having turned their company into a professionally managed family business. The coming year he will have a sabbatical studying family business at Kellogg Business School in the USA.
The Murugappa Group started 100 years ago as a small family run business in indigenous financing is today an INR 52,000 million (USD 1 billion) corporate with diversified interests in abrasives, engineering, farm inputs, plantations, sugar, bio-products, chemicals, nutraceuticals, insurance and financial services.
Murugappa V. Subbiah is a member of the 3rd generation. |
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Maarit Toivanen-Koivisto
Company: Onvest Oy
Country: Finland
Title:President & CEO
Generation:4th
| | As a member of the 4th generation Maarit Koivisto is President and CEO of Onvest Oy, founded in 1913. Technical wholesale and contracting are the main activities. Its customers represent electrical, HEPAC and refrigeration contractors, industry, energy plants, the public sector and distributors of technical products. The group has more than 5,000 employees, in its Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian operations. Headquarters are in Vantaa, Finland.
Maarit Koivisto is former Vice-President of FBN Finland. |
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Andrew Wates
Company: Wates Group Limited
Country: United Kingdom
Title:Chairman
Generation:3rd
| | Andrew Wates has recently retired as Chairman of Wates Family Holdings, the ownership forum that oversees all Wates family interests, but continues to serve on the Family Board. Until April 2006, he was Chairman of Wates Group Limited, having originally joined the company in 1964. Wates Group is one of the largest privately-owned development and construction companies in the UK with 2,000 employees and an annual turnover of £900m.
Currently, Andrew is Chairman of the Institute for Family Business and Vice-Chairman of FBN International. He is also Chairman of Gambado Ltd, Chairman of the Grants Committee of the Wates Family Enterprise Trust and is on the Advisory Board of Cape Verde Investments. In addition to this, Andrew is extensively involved in a number of Surrey charities, including St Catherine’s Hospice and the Surrey Community Foundation. |
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Hans-Jacob Bonnier
Company: Bonnier Group
Country: Sweden
Title:Executive Vice-President
Generation:6th
| | Honorary Board Member
Since 1997 Hans-Jacob Bonnier is Executive Vice President of Dagens Industri (daily business papers in 9 countries), one of six divisions of the Bonnier Group. He is Chairman of the Family Business Network in Sweden, the European Business Press Federation and the Bonnier Family Foundation.
The Bonnier Group, founded in 1804, is an international media company based in Sweden. It currently has operations in 20 countries, with emphasis on northern Europe and 11.000 employees. Headquarters in Stockholm.
Hans-Jacob is a member of the 6th generation of the Bonnier family, where members of the 6th and 7th generations hold management positions in the Bonnier Group. |
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Mariano Puig Planas
Company: Corporacion Exea
Country: Spain
Title:Member of the Board
Generation:2nd
| | Honorary Board Member
Exea Corporation, a major group that joins different area business, mainly devoted to cosmetics, fashion, perfume, stationery, electronics, dermopharmacy and the smoking industry. |
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