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8:00am |
Breakfast and Registration |
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9:00am |
Designing the Family Journey
Sara Hamilton, Founder & CEO, Family Office Exchange
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9:20am |
FOX Insights: Taking an Imagineer’s Approach to the Future
Presenters: Amy Hart Clyne, Executive Director, Knowledge Center, Family Office Exchange; Alexandre Monnier, President, Family Office Exchange
Imagine what the year 2030 might look like for you and the people you serve. What key trends must be watched as we anticipate the world over the next 10 to 15 years? As a community dedicated to providing for families of substantial wealth, what can we do today to not only plan for, but also influence our shared future? How can we focus our thinking and our efforts? These are some of the questions explored at the 2017 FOX Thought Leaders Council Summit. In this session, you will examine the 4 key themes that surfaced as high-priority and require immediate attention. We will describe how these themes impact the private wealth owner community and how we might want to put them in our line of vision as we look ahead.
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10:10am |
Changing Course: The Fink Family’s Journey From Business Innovators to Impact Investors
Presenters: Betsy and Jesse Fink, Founders, Marshall Street Management
Moderator: Sara Hamilton, Founder & CEO, Family Office Exchange
Long before they were founders of Priceline.com, Betsy and Jesse Fink shared a passion for environmental solutions. Post IPO, they chose to focus more deeply on their early interests by building an integrated, systemic approach for identifying and solving environmental issues. They also became early adopters and field builders of venture philanthropy and impact investing. Betsy and Jesse will share stories and lessons learned from starting an impact investment firm (MissionPoint Partners), creating a sustainable farm (Millstone), and starting a U.S. non-profit focused on food waste (ReFED). Hear how these experiences have influenced their views on wealth ownership and the meaning of prosperity, as well as how values are created and family dynamics are shaped in a first generation family.
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11:00am |
Networking Break |
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11:30am |
Generational Transitions Journey
Presenters: Jill Koosmann, President & CEO, HRK Group, Inc.; Katherine Hayes, Chair of the Board, HRK Trust Company; Kate Tilney, Chair of the Board, HRK Group, Inc.
Family office executive, Jill Koosmann, with G5 family members, Katherine Hayes and Kate Tilney, will highlight how the family and office staff worked together to complete a significant generational transition. Learn how they worked together to meet the family’s current needs, while respecting the evolution of the family’s culture. By addressing questions about where they are going, what business they are in, and how to measure their success, the team learned a great deal in the process. Anyone preparing for a similar journey, or anticipating one in the future, will benefit from hearing about this family’s accomplishments and experiences. |
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12:30pm |
Luncheon |
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1:30pm |
Peer Dialogues for Family Members and Family Office Executives - please choose one:
• Private and Direct Investors • Family Business Owners and Enterprising Families • Gen 1 & 2 Families • Gen 3 & 4 Families • Gen 5+ Families
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Advisory Firm and Service Providers Dialogue Session - High Impact Trends in the Family Office Industry
• Open to Multi-Family Offices and Service Providers
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3:00pm |
Networking Break |
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3:30pm |
Breakout Sessions Please choose one of the following sessions. All breakout sessions will be video recorded and available to FOX members via the FOX Knowledge Center following the Forum. |
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Breakout 1 |
A Rising Generation Redefines the Family Vision
Presenter: Elizabeth Carlock Phillips, Executive Director, Phillips Foundation; Catherine Burnett, Chief Operating Officer, Phillips Foundation; Shannon Cagnina, Chief Operating Officer, Phillips Enterprises
When FOX member Elizabeth Carlock Phillips assumed leadership of the Phillips Foundation in 2013, she and the trustees moved deliberately and with great passion to re-align the corpus as well as the grant-making function of the foundation with their family values. In order to do so, she sought out new relationships with impact-oriented financial advisers and other experts to help achieve the family’s goals. Today, the Phillips family’s vision, mission, and values-orientation is guiding not only the family’s foundation assets, but also their family operating businesses and their broader investment strategy.
In this session, Elizabeth will share highlights from this journey, including the steps she and her husband, as rising generation family leaders, have taken to redefine Phillips Enterprises for the next era. |
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Breakout 2 |
Age Healthy, Wealthy & Wise
Presenter: Coventry Edwards-Pitt, CFA, CFP®, Chief Wealth Advisory Officer, Ballentine Partners, LLC
Longevity is a gift only if you know how to use it. Covie will share insights from vibrant elders about the factors that allowed them to design meaningful later lives as well as the best practices that each of us can put in place today to ensure that our aging impacts our families more positively than negatively.
Covie will lead us through a planning process to help families get started, based on how she has observed other families successfully navigate the longevity journey.
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Breakout 3 |
Impact Through Direct Investing – Wisdom from the Trenches
Presenters: Sanjeev Krishnan, Managing Director, S2G Ventures; Josh Mailman, Founder and Managing Director, Serious Change LP; Tony Michaels, Chief Executive Officer, Midwestern Bio Ag; Shally Shanker, Founder and CEO, Aiim Partners (Alpha Impact Investment Management)
Moderator: Michael Whelchel, Co-Founder & Partner, Big Path Capital
Like the Fink Family, a growing number of families are investing directly into impact companies and for good reason. There are great investment opportunities and investors can pick the specific type of positive impact they would like to see (sustainable fishery, renewable energy, financial inclusion, etc.). But investing directly into companies efficiently and effectively requires a different acumen and infrastructure than investing in public markets.
This panel will bring together two veteran family investors who have deep experience investing in direct deals and two CEOs of companies who have received capital from family offices to share their wisdom born from their experience. Attend this session for lessons learned, tips, and practical how-to’s.
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Breakout 4 |
Steering the Conversation on Business Succession
Presenters: Charlie Carr, US Family Enterprises Advisory Leader, PwC; Jonathan Flack, US Family Business Services Leader, PwC
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 does succession really mean for the business and family leadership?
- What guidelines should you employ for ownership succession and passing shares, as well as governance succession of board positions?
- How are you preparing the next generation for leadership succession and what tactics are you employing for the estate?
- What does the ‘missing middle’ mean to a family business’s strategic plan and how can it affect the succession process?
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Breakout 5 |
Goals-Based Framework for Risk Management – Case Study
Presenter: W. Jackson Parham, Jr., CFA, Chief Investment Officer, Eton Advisors
Families of exceptional wealth enjoy abundant resources to achieve family goals, but also face peculiar, idiosyncratic risks not easily managed through traditional means. This session explores a framework for managing those risks while taking advantage of the unique edge which families can have over other investors.
In this session, an experienced goals-based investment strategist describes how working with a single-family office founder to address the unique risk needs and investment goals of the family led to the joint development of a simple but powerful framework for managing family risks. In combining family advisory roles, the family’s insurance industry experience, and family goals, Jack describes how wealthy families can gain valuable insight by adopting the perspective and tools utilized by insurance and reinsurance providers to manage major risks. Acquiring this inside perspective and viewing the family portfolio conceptually as the insurer of family goals can be useful in crafting customized solutions to address extraordinary risks.
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Breakout 6 |
Security Strategies for Sophisticated Families
Presenters: Rob Gray, Senior Director of Operations and Executive Security, Cox Enterprises; John Lugiano, President, MPS LLC; Eric Powell, Chief Security Officer, Bayshore Global Management LLC
Moderator: Tony Gebely, Chief Technology and Integration Officer, Family Office Exchange
As new social and geopolitical conflicts arise, threats to a family’s security and well-being change. This landscape has materially shifted over the last few years and, as a result, families need to be prepared to address a variety of personal, physical, and cyber risks.
In this session, family security directors from three single family offices will share strategies they use to protect the interests of the global, multigenerational families who employ them. They’ll also share the latest updates from the security front, including top issues families should be concerned about, and the latest best practices and technologies used to mitigate risk.
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5:00pm |
Adjournment |
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7:00pm |
All Member Dinner at the Chicago History Museum
Join us for a dinner with your peers at the Chicago History Museum, home to the Chicago Historical Society, the city’s oldest cultural institution devoted to collecting, interpreting, and presenting the rich multicultural history of Chicago. Shuttle service will be provided.
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