Nomination Committee


The Nomination Committee looks after and addresses all possible conflicts of interest pertaining to board of director’s position. The Nomination Committee encourages the rotation on the board and regularly seek new applications from chapters.



Philip Aminoff
Company: Veho Group Oy Ab
Country: Finland
Title:Member of the board
Generation:4th

Philip Aminoff is Chairman of Electrosonic, an international company specialising in advanced audio-visual solutions for themed entertainment, presentation spaces and control rooms. Philip is also a member of the board of Finnish family businesses Veho (automotive trade), Helvar (lighting electronics), Fastems (factory automation) and Paulig (coffee, spices and ethnic foods), and a member of the supervisory board of Tapiola Mutual Insurance Company. Philip is President of European Family Businesses-GEEF, a federation of national Family Business Associations from twelve European countries. He is also a member of the Business Chamber of EPG, the EU Enterprise Policy Group, and of the Growth Initiative Working Group of the Finnish Government. In 2005 Philip headed the Family Business Working Group of the Finnish Ministry of Trade and Industry. In 2007 he was appointed a member of the EU Expert Group on Family Business. Philip holds an MBA from INSEAD (Fontainebleau) and a M.Sc. (Econ.) from Hanken School of Economics (Helsinki). He is a Member of the Finnish Association of Professional Board Members and a Fellow of the Institute of Directors in the United Kingdom. He is married with three children and lives in Helsinki, Finland.


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.


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.


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.


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.