the european families in business conference

private meetings for the world’s leading families
THE EUROPEAN
FAMILIES IN BUSINESS
CONFERENCE
23 & 24 June 2015
St. Regis Hotel, Rome • Italy
The 12th European Families in Business Conference
Exploring Growth Opportunities
Europe’s premier private conference for family business leaders, owners
and next generation family members
EUROPEAN FAMILIES IN BUSINESS AWARDS
23 June 2015 - St. Regis Hotel • Rome
In association with Societe Generale Private Banking
Partnered by:
societe generale private banking
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Exploring Growth Opportunities
Campden Wealth is delighted to invite you to our twelfth annual European Families in Business
Conference taking place in Rome and we are pleased with the generous involvement of Marco
Emilio Lavazza who will be chairing the conference.
Most European family businesses have been achieving substantial growth within the last year,
aiming and expecting to focus on growth even more aggressively within the next couple of years.
Is your family business looking for growth? Are you looking for insight and information on how
to do this? Then can you afford not to hear from 30+ family speakers from over 18 countries and
network with over 100 prominent family business leaders from Europe and beyond?
This year’s conference will uphold its function as a unique and confidential family learning
platform for most illustrious business-owning families to meet and discuss the most crucial
issues and key challenges including leadership, talent management, succession planning and
professionalising the business.
Key themes and highlights of the conference include:
•Opening Keynote from the Fendi Family – An Amazing Success Story from Rome
• European & International Growth Opportunities
• Family Ownership & Family Management
• Philanthropy Hand in Hand
• Talent Management in Family Businesses
• Sustainable Family Businesses & their Social Impact
• Keynote Panel on Family Legacy
• Treasure Seeking Endeavours
• The Entrepreneurial Boomerangs
• Aspiring Entrepreneurs – Keynote Dual Presentation
• Three Family Case Studies
• Focus on the Next Generation
“Lots of fun and lots of new faces! The highlight of the year – well worth the attendance.”
Family Member, Italy
Four ways to register:
1Call Enrico Roasenda on +44 020 3763 2800
2E-mail enricoroasenda@campdenwealth.com
3
Register online at campdenconferences/rome
4Complete and return the enclosed booking form either by e-mail or fax
(see booking form for details)
Added value
Take advantage of our special family packages:
• Family Group Ticket – for three family members
• Dual Family Ticket – for a senior and a next generation family member
Campden wealth membership
Campden Wealth, incorporating the Institute for Private Investors is the pre-eminent wealth
membership club.
Campden Wealth Membership provides networking opportunities and unrivalled support to families
and their next generation through global and regional family wealth events, online communications
with members, co-investment workshops, member profiling and connections, research reports &
intelligence and multigenerational education programmes.
By joining the Campden Wealth Membership, you become part of a global community of over 1,200
family members from 25 countries.
To apply or for more information, contact Henry Samuelson at henrysamuelson@campdenwealth.com
or call +44 (0) 20 3763 2800. Visit campdenmembership.com
www.campdenconferences.com/rome
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Conference chair
Marco Emilio Lavazza • Vice President & Director, Lavazza SpA, Italy
Mr. Lavazza also serves as a Member of the Advisory Board at DGPA SGR SpA and Innogest SGR
S.p.A. Today, Lavazza is one of the most important roasters in the world, a leader in Italy with a
48% share in value of the retail market. Lavazza is present with its distributors and subsidiaries in
over 90 countries around the world. With a turnover exceeding €1.2 billion in 2011, the company
operates worldwide in the Home and Away-from-Home segments.
Profile of conference speakers
Paul Clüver • Managing Director, De Rust Estate, South Africa
Mr. Clüver is a fourth generation member of the family owned and family run agricultural business
which has been in the family since 1896. Together with his family Mr. Clüver has taken De Rust
from being a leading apple producer to being one of South Africa’s top wine estates, stud breeder of
Hereford cattle while being rated as a leader in sustainable production and conservation.
Paras Chandaria • Director, Comcraft Group, Singapore
Mr. Chandaria is a fourth generation member of a family business with an interest in leading global
businesses which began from modest origins in East Africa almost a hundred years ago. As a part
of the management team of Comcraft, he plays a significant role in developing the groups’ existing
activities in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Mr. Chandaria is also involved in establishing new
ventures for the group including a new retail initiative and a unique edutainment concept.
Hertford King • Owner & CEO, International Group, UK
Mr. King is a second generation member of a highly diversified family business engaged in a
number of different industries around the world, founded in 1964. Mr. King has personally
managed projects, including construction and property development contracts, in 21 countries
establishing a useful network of business connections globally. Mr. King has also worked in all
of the group’s divisions, at board level for the past twenty years focusing on strategy, finance and
operational management. Mr. King has also been a trustee of three charities supporting blind
children and adults.
Hugo Peris • Board Member, Laboratorios SALVAT, Spain
Mr. Peris has a broad multinational experience in the pharmaceutical industry, having worked
in marketing, sales and business development positions in New Zealand, Australia, the USA and
China. Mr. Peris serves as a non-executive member of the Board of Directors of Laboratorios
SALVAT, a privately-held Spanish pharmaceutical company of which he is part of the 4th
generation. After spending four years with the Chinese start-up Luqa Pharmaceuticals, in 2014
Mr. Peris spun out an R&D asset from Laboratorios SALVAT to start Loop Therapeutics, a US
ophthalmic pharmaceutical company focused on developing first-in-class products to treat
corneal diseases.
Lamberto Frescobaldi • President, Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi, Italy
Mr. Frescobaldi represents the thirtieth generation of this renowned Tuscan winegrowing family.
His lifework has been the revitalisation of the production and financial performance of the
family’s notable portfolio of agricultural estates. Mr. Frescobaldi showed an obvious enthusiasm
for agriculture even in his childhood and began his activities in the family business quite early. Mr.
Frescobaldi read agriculture at the University of Florence, then got a degree at the University of
California, Davis, one of the best schools in the world for viticulture and enology.
Olivier Mellerio • Chairman, Mellerio dits Meller, France
Mr. Mellerio represents the fourteenth generation of their family business of 401 years, the world’s
oldest jewellers and France’s oldest family business known as Europe’s “Jeweller of the Queens”. Mr.
Mellerio is based in Paris, with branches in Luxembourg and Japan. The family started trading in
Le Louvre palace with Queen Marie de Médicis and with Versailles under the patronage of Queen
Marie Antoinette. They are behind a lot of royal jewels around the world and e.g. the men’s singles
trophy awarded at the French Open and the FIFA Ballon d’Or.
Dr. Percy Barnevik • Co-founder, Hand in Hand
Dr. Barnevik has been the CEO / Chairman of ABB, Astra Zeneca, Skanska, Sandvik and Investor
(Wallenberg group), as well as a board member of General Motors and DuPont. He has also been
a member of the US Business Council and the Bilderberg Group. Over the past 15 years, he has
phased out of his chairmanships and has devoted his time and money to philanthropy. Hand in
Hand has started 1.4 million enterprises and aims for 10 million jobs.
Hugo & Alexandre Mulliez • Family Members, Auchan Group, France
Hugo and Alexandre Mulliez are grandsons of Gerard Mulliez, founder of Auchan. Auchan is
a French retail group with revenues in excess of €60 billion, employing over 300,000 people in 15
countries and remains owned in majority by the Mulliez family. Although Hugo and Alexandre have
both chosen to follow careers in the business environment, they are entrepreneurs at heart and have
decided to follow their passions in establishing, and being involved full-time, in their own ventures
instead of joining their family’s company. Alexandre is now back to the family group and heads up
the Marketing and Development & Innovation at AuchanDirect.
Andrea Prym-Bruck • Archives Director, Prym Group, Germany
Mrs. Prym-Bruck is a nineteenth generation member of the Prym Family, one of the oldest
entrepreneurial families in the world, the oldest in Germany. Today’s Prym Group, run by the
Prym Family for fourteen generations, was founded in 1530 and has its head office in Germany
near Cologne. Production facilities are located around the globe, being a leading global supplier of
creative sewing products, needlework and fashion accessories, retrievable press fastening systems and
accessories to the textile industries as well as a leading provider for material and surface technology,
micro fine pressing technology and mechatronics. Mrs. Prym-Bruck engages in several foundations.
Count Lorenzo Rossi di Montelera • Chairman, Gestofi, Switzerland
Dr. Rossi di Montelera is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of “Birks Group”, a company in the
jewellery sector, based in Canada and South East USA, with seventy stores and a turnover of some
$300mn. Dr. Rossi also serves as a Board Member of Azimut S.p.A (motor yachts builder) and had
several managerial positions up to Executive Committee Member at the Martini & Rossi Group, the
company owned by the family until 1992. Later Dr. Rossi still held his Board Membership at the
Bacardi Martini Group until 2008.
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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
conference chair
Marco Emilio Lavazza • Vice President & Director, Lavazza SpA, Italy
Tuesday, 23 June 2015
08.30 – 09.00 Registration & refreshments
09.00 – 09.10 Chairman’s opening remarks & welcome
09.10 – 10.00 opening address – the fendi family story from rome
Anna Fendi • Family Member, Fendi, Italy
10.00 – 11.00 e
uropean & international growth opportunities
Track significant growth trends for family businesses and learn from global achievers
Prof. Dr. Stefano Cordero di Montezemolo • President, AIMBA, Italy
Hugo Peris • Board Member, Laboratorios SALVAT, Spain
Christian Hallberg • Family Member, Paulig Group, Finland
Patrick Folléa • Deputy Head of Societe Generale Private Banking & Head of Societe Generale Private Banking France
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Alfredo De Massis • Chair of Entrepreneurship & Family Business, Lancaster University, UK
11.00 – 11.30 Morning refreshments
family ownership & family management
11.30 – 12.15
• Views from a top future family business leader and a top non-family director
• Should family or non-family members head your family business?
Mads Clausen • Family Member, Danfoss, Denmark
Peter Armitage • Chairman, OCS, UK
Moderator: Nicholas Moody • Editor-in-Chief, CampdenFB, UK
12.15 – 13.15 mobilising millions of poor people into entrepreneurship
Dr. Percy Barnevik • Co-Founder, Hand in Hand
13.15 – 14.30 Networking lunch - with wine tasting by Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi
14.30 – 15.30
talent management in family businesses
How to select & retain your best talent?
Lamberto Frescobaldi • President, Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi, Italy
Olivier Mellerio • Chairman, Mellerio dits Meller, France
Emilie Mellerio • Family Member, Mellerio dits Meller, France
Dr. Nasrine Abushakra • Founder, HSK, UAE
Moderator: Dr. Clare Beckett McInroy • Managing Director, BMC, Bahrain
15.30 – 16.30 sustainable family businesses and their social impact
Identify how family businesses under the radar put emphasis on sustainability
Arnaud de Coninck • Family Member, Solvay Group, France
Paul Clüver • Managing Director, De Rust Estate, South Africa
Paras Chandaria • Director, Comcraft Group, Singapore
Marco Emilio Lavazza • Vice President & Director, Lavazza, Italy
Moderator: Amy Clarke • Head of Private Clients, CAF, UK
16.30 – 17.00 Afternoon refreshments
17.00 – 18.00 k
eynote panel – taking ownership of your family legacy
• Understand your family dynasty
• Define & re-define your legacy
• Embrace and realize the value in changes
Philippe Lacoste • Family Member, Lacoste, France
Vincenzo Onorato • Chairman, Moby, Italy
Andrea Prym-Bruck • Archives Director, Prym Group, Germany
C ount Lorenzo Rossi di Montelera • Chairman, Gestofi, Switzerland
Moderator: Nicholas Moody • Editor-in-Chief, CampdenFB, UK
18.00
Closing of day one
19.00 – 22.30 gala evening – the european families in business awards
All conference participants are warmly invited to the fourth European Families in
Business Awards. Reception drinks provided by Ferrari Winery.
the european
families in business awards
in association with Societe Generale Private Banking.
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Wednesday, 24 June 2015
conference chair
Marco Emilio Lavazza • Vice President & Director, Lavazza SpA, Italy
09.00 – 09.30 Registration & refreshments
09.30 – 09.40 Chairman’s opening remarks for day two
09.40 – 10.30 keynote presentation – the entrepreneurial boomerangs
Explore the story of two young entrepreneurs follow their passions and set up their own ventures
Hugo Mulliez • Family Member, Auchan Group, France
Alexandre Mulliez • Family Member, Auchan Group, France
10.30 – 11.00 Morning refreshments
11.00 – 12.00
aspiring entrepreneurs
Discover the common traits of successful entrepeneurs around the world
George Skourtis • Commercial/Finance Director, Hellenic Star Shipping & Blue
Line Ship Management, Greece
Alessandro Lunelli • Board Member, Ferrari F.lli Lunelli, Italy
Wafa Elnefeidi • Family Member, Elnefeidi Group, Sudan
Qais Al Khonji • Chairman, Genesis Projects & Investments, Sultanate of Oman
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Alfredo De Massis • Chair of Entrepreneurship & Family Business, Lancaster University, UK
12.00 – 13.00
two case studies – family & corporate governance
Including role and composition of the board
Rima Freiji • Chairman of the Board, Tanmia, Wadi Group, Lebanon
Fabrizio Arengi Bentivoglio • Chairman, Fidia, Italy/US
13.00 – 14.00 Networking Lunch
14.00 – 14.30 a family case study
Mentored by my Father – A Daughter & Father Relationship
Countess Anna von und Zu Arco Zinneb • Next-Gen Member, ArcoBrau, Germany
14.30 – 15.15 focus on the next generation
•
How to engage the next generation?
• Various characters and different family dynamics
Hertford King • Owner & CEO, International Group, UK
Paras Chandaria • Director, Comcraft Group, Singapore
Tomas Estes • Founder & CEO, Ocho Tequila & Pacifico Group, Mexico/UK
Jesse Estes • Business Development Manager, Ocho Tequila & Pacifico Group,
Mexico/UK
15.15 – 15.30
the pandora game
Sylvain Daudel • Director, EDHEC Family Business Global, France
15.30 – 16.00 Afternoon refreshments
16.00 – 16.30 treasure-seeking endeavours beyond business
•
Reflections on serious art collections
• Finding passion within and connected to the business
Dr. Uli Sigg • Deputy Chairman, Ringier, Switzerland
Moderator: Nicholas Moody • Editor-in-Chief, CampdenFB, UK
16.30 – 17.15 g
roup work on cultural challenges
•
Most families face diverse cultural challenges due to regional or international operations and expansions
• Find out the DOs & DON’Ts in order to avoid any pitfalls and cultural faux pas
Prof. Dr. Chris Adendorff • NMM University, South Africa
12.15 – 13.15 exclusive breakouts – family principals & non-family
directors’ only sessions
session i: family principals and family members
session ii: non-family directors
18.30
End of the conference
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the european
families in business awards
Tuesday, 23 June 2015
In association with Societe Generale Private Banking
Delegates at the conference are invited to participate, together with their partners
and children, in a gala evening to celebrate excellence in family business.
•Top Family Business of the Year
•Top Family Business Leader of the Year
•Top Family Business Rising Star of the Year­­­
•Top Next Generation Entrepreneur of the Year
• Top Non-Family Director of the Year
•Top Sustainable Family Business of the Year
Guests will enjoy a welcome reception on arrival before sitting down to enjoy a dinner and the
award ceremony.
HOW TO MAKE YOUR NOMINATION
More information on the judging process and how to enter could be found online at:
www.campdenfb.com/fib-award.
By registering for the conference you will have complementary access to the Awards Gala Evening,
should you wish to enquire about additional places for the awards please contact Enrico Roasenda
on +44 020 3763 2800 or email enricoroasenda@campdenwealth.com for further details.
Feedback from previous conferences
“I greatly enjoyed the conference, nice and relaxed and friendly environment! Remarkable sessions!”
Family Member, Spain
“The conference was excellent and exceeded my expectations. The high calibre of the participants, the quality
of the speakers and the overall attention to conference details made the event outstanding.
I benefitted extensively from insights into the contemporary thinking of entrepreneurial families in both
family governance and investments.”
Family Member, France
“A wonderful conference! From divine food, to the smooth running of everything.
Most importantly it felt very ‘real’ – wonderful stories,
exceptional sharing and lovely people.”
Family Member, UK
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