Alliances & Preferred Partners


A strategic Alliance or Partnership with the Family Business Network is a way of demonstrating a long term support to Families in Business as well as a strong interest in their sustainable development model.

Global Alliances
Exclusive partners in their sector of activity, the Alliance partners are strongly associated with FBN International activities throughout the year.

Credit Suisse is committed to family businesses, with its broad understanding of the personal challenges that families and their next generation face. Since 1856, Credit Suisse has offered professional insights and financial solutions on how families can preserve and develop their businesses in the midst of a fast-changing world.

As a leading global bank, Credit Suisse focuses on building long-term relationships with both the current generation and the next generation.
Because we know the future doesn’t just happen. It has to be built.
www.credit-suisse.com




Egon Zehnder International was founded in 1964 by Dr. Egon Zehnder with a distinctive vision and structure, focusing on top management; and remaining independent from the capital markets. This allows the firm to dedicate itself entirely to long term client relationships.

Besides executive search, and board consulting, the identification, evaluation and development of senior management talent in companies around the world continue to be the core activities of Egon Zehnder International.

Egon Zehnder International is operating from 63 wholly-owned offices in 37 countries - 370 consultants are organised around a single profit-center partnership. This allows the firm to operate seamlessly when engagements call for multi office, cross-border collaboration or knowledge sharing.
www.egonzehnder.com

Press Release: Alliance with Egon Zehnder International




As an organization that can trace its roots back to the late 1890s, with a dynastic will to build a stronger business generation after generation, Ernst & Young can relate to and understand your family business issues. Our experienced professionals can help you deal successfully with the challenges of today's marketplace, and assist you and your family in planning for the future.

Our experience is based on working with successful family businesses around the world and insights gleaned from our worldwide Entrepreneur Of The Year program. Taking advantage of this knowledge and understanding of the success factors underpins what we call the “growth DNA of family business”.

Our advice is independent and practical: we have sector and subject matter resources who understand industry-specific issues and can help you leverage leading practices, and our globally integrated team can support you wherever you do business.

Ernst & Young care about your family and your family business.
www.ey.com/familybusiness

Press Release: Alliance with Ernst & Young


Preferred Partners

IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland, offers the longest-running family-business program in the world: Leading the Family Business (LFB). IMD knows how families learn best, individually and as a group. We help families and their key managers construct effective platforms for a sustainable future. LFB is an opportunity for a family in business to:
  • Understand family business challenges and how to manage critical issues
  • Probe critical issues facing family businesses: growth, governance, succession and culture
  • Benchmark best practices and network to improve understanding of what makes family businesses successful
IMD is recognized as one of the world leaders in executive education. For over 60 years IMD has worked with leading global companies to develop and retain management talent. IMD is the “global meeting place”: the most international of business schools worldwide. IMD offers learning based on innovative and highly relevant research: learning that can be applied to business challenges - immediately. This is IMD's "Real World. Real Learning" approach. www.imd.ch




Ashoka: Innovators for the Public
Founded in 1980, Ashoka is the world’s largest community of leading social entrepreneurs. Ashoka identifies those social entrepreneurs with pattern-changing ideas for addressing society’s most entrenched problems and provides support to ensure that their innovations are replicable, scalable, sustainable, and have the potential for global impact. Working with such partners as the Family Business Network, Ashoka helps integrate and connect social and business entrepreneurs around the world to promote an entrepreneurial “eco-system” of global initiatives. Ashoka believes that the only solution to problems is more problem solvers and actively works to create an Everyone a Changemaker™ world. www.Ashoka.org email: aevans@Ashoka.org

Press Release: Partnership with Ashoka

Media Partners



Family Business is a 100% family-owned business with over 20 years experience in the publishing business
Family Business is the only dedicated magazine that targets thriving multi-generational North American family companies.
Family Business offers a vital and active paid circulation of more than 6,800 committed family company owners, leaders and shareholders.
Family Business Publishing Company is the publisher of the highly regarded 11-volume Family Business Handbook Series, in-depth and essential reference works on key family business topics, such as succession, financial management, conflict resolution and compensation. www.familybusinessmagazine.com



Campden Media is a specialist business-to-business information provider creating content that is delivered in print, online, at conferences and exhibitions, and via research reports. Campden Media is a global business with offices in London and New York.

Campden FB is a leading international business title that brings the world of family business into sharp focus, from managing the complex dynamics that shape today's global families to understanding the pressures and opportunities that surround their businesses.

With unrivalled access to CEOs of the world's leading family businesses and comment from the most respected experts in the field, both Campden FB and its online channel www.campdenFB.com tackle important issues such as succession, leadership, governance and philanthropy in an authoritative and thought-provoking manner.
FBN provides many sponsorship opportunities including the annual FBN International Summit:
Please contact us at info@fbn-i.org for more information.