The Evolution of Enterprise Governance Across Generations
Join Family Office Exchange’s Sara Hamilton, Founder and CEO, and Scott Winget, Enterprise Family Clients; along with Family Business Magazine’s Publishing Director, David Shaw, as they explore the complexities and best practices of enterprise governance.
What makes enterprise families unique is that they share ownership and stewardship of more than just family-controlled businesses. They are the guardians of the legacy, the family trusts, the family philanthropy, and the joint properties, in addition to co-ownership of operating companies. Governance architecture must encompass the sum of all the parts.
As leadership and governance moves from founders to siblings to cousins, the decision-making structures have to evolve as the family matures and the priorities change. In this webinar, examples of the complexities of ownership will be presented in a family dashboard, and governance structures at each generational stage will be discussed. Key steps in the enterprise planning process will be outlined to make shared ownership successful for generations (based on hundreds of interviews with FOX members).
You will learn:
- How family businesses evolve into enterprise families
- How family goals and complexity dictate the type of governance structures needed
- Why governance structures evolve at each generational stage
- The twelve steps in the enterprise planning process to ensure successful outcomes
Sara Hamilton
Founder and CEO, Family Office Exchange
Founder and CEO 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.
Sara founded the Family Office Exchange (FOX) in 1989 as a peer network for family office executives. Within 10 years, FOX could see that families needed help with their enterprise vision and managing financial transitions. As a result, FOX evolved into a strategist for family enterprises, a platform for sharing family wealth best practices, and an industry advocate for the importance of private capital in a global economy.
Today, Sara provides strategic direction for FOX and leads the development of new programs and services supporting family enterprises, family office executives and wealth advisory firms in more than 20 countries. She was named one of the Top 50 Women in Wealth Management by Wealth Manager from 2010-2012 and 2019 Outstanding Thought Leader for Wealth Management by Family Wealth Report.
Sara is the co-author of Family Legacy and Leadership: Preserving True Family Wealth in Challenging Times and serves on the executive education faculty of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business where she is an adjunct faculty member for their Private Wealth Management course, offered twice per year in Chicago. She is on the founding boards for the Private Directors Association in Chicago and the Foundation for Gender Equality in New York.
FOX has built a unique resource team dedicated to serving multi-generational families, led by 15 technical experts who are supported by a dedicated team of 20 additional employees based in Chicago, New York, and Madrid.
Scott Winget
Market Leader, Enterprise Families, Family Office Exchange
Scott Winget is the market leader for Enterprise Families at Family Office Exchange (FOX). In his role, Scott serves as Co-Chair for Enterprise Councils and Executive Councils, where members can share experiences, ideas and best practices with veteran peers in a confidential environment. Scott also serves as relationship manager for Enterprise Family members, in order to understand their unique needs and provide them with access to important research and objective guidance. He is as a member of the FOX leadership team, helping to develop and execute service strategies designed to meet the needs of his market segment, and also participates in new research and thought leadership meaningful to members.
Serving families for over 25 years in the areas or family office, wealth management and estate and tax planning, Scott brings significant experience to FOX and its members. Prior to joining FOX, Scott created and led multi-disciplinary and award-winning consulting groups that provided comprehensive family office services at both Cresset and Ascent Private Capital Management. Earlier, he was a senior wealth planner at Wells Fargo Family Wealth (later, Abbot Downing) and began his career as an income tax and estate planning specialist with Arthur Andersen and EY. Scott has participated in the FOX community for over 15 years.
Scott is a CPA and holds a J.D. from The Ohio State University, where he also earned a B.S. in Business Administration with a dual major in Accounting and Finance. He is a member of the Rocky Mountain Estate Planning Council, Colorado Society of CPAs and the Colorado Bar Association. He has also held several securities and insurance licenses and served on the board of the Mountain Area Land Trust as Treasurer and head of the Finance Committee among other roles with non-profits.
David Shaw
Publishing Director, Directors & Boards
David Shaw is the publishing director of Directors & Boards and its sister publication, Family Business. With more than 30 years of experience in business-to-business and consumer media markets, he has served as an editor, publisher, publishing director, group publisher and group vice president of a variety of publications, trade shows, conferences and websites.
Prior to founding GRID Media, David served as senior vice president for Phillips Business Information Inc., where he oversaw nearly 100 discrete media properties, and helped build the business from $35 million to more than $100 million in annual revenues. He is a frequent author and speaker on issues related to business-to-business media, multi-generational family businesses and private and public company governance. He is married, with two grown children, one serving in the Navy and the other in law school.
- No cost to attend.
- All participants receive a copy of the webinar materials after the event.
- All particpants will receive the Directors & Boards newsletter featuring real-time news, analysis and thought leadership on corporate governance -- all delivered right to your inbox every Monday morning. You may, of course, opt out at any time.
- Opportunity for questions and feedback.
- Unbiased third-party director education.
- 60 minutes -- maximum value for time.
