LEGACY & FUTUREFAMILY BUSINESS CONFERENCE

Advises business families and family offices in 40+ countries on strategy, transformation, and leadership.

He has deep experience with all types of business family contexts, next-generation issues, and long-term planning and strategy processes.

Senior Advisor with McKinsey & Company focusing on global family business and family office topics.

He is a Distinguished Fellow at INSEAD Business School. He runs a successful INSEAD Next Gen Mentoring program and has mentored 850+ Next Generations from global business families.

Author of “Family Business Strategy” and “Family Office Strategy” (2027).

Executive Chairman of Damm since 1994, the Barcelona family business behind Estrella Damm, which turns 150 in 2026.

Under his leadership Damm has grown from a turnover of 214 million euros in 1994 to more than 2.025 billion euros in 2024, with over 5,700 employees, 18 breweries and two malting plants of its own, and a presence in more than 130 countries.

He was named Best CEO 2024 by Forbes Spain, received the Executive of the Year award at the 2025 Vanguardia Awards, and was a Spanish finalist for EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year in 2025.

A rare case of a family enterprise that has moved through generations of ownership while staying rooted in the city it was founded in.

Partner at Abante and Director of Wealth Advisory, at one of Spain’s largest independent financial advisory and asset management firms.

She joined Abante in September 2010 to open the firm’s Valladolid office, moved into wealth advisory in 2014, and was named one of the firm’s executive partners in 2022.

Before Abante she worked at Banco Santander across asset management and private banking. She studied at Universidad Pontificia Comillas ICAI-ICADE.

Abante advises families, family groups and companies on the investment and governance decisions that sit alongside the operating business.

Next generation of the Lima family, owners of Grupo 3corações, one of Brazil’s largest coffee groups.

The business began in 1959 when João Alves de Lima started selling green coffee in São Miguel, Rio Grande do Norte. In 1984 he handed the running of the company to his children Pedro, Paulo and Vicente Lima.

In 2005 the family holding company São Miguel entered a joint venture with the Israeli group Strauss, bringing together the Santa Clara and 3 Corações brands. The shareholders’ agreement was renewed in 2022. By 2016 the group had become the second largest supplier of instant coffee in Brazil.

She brings the view from inside a family business in transition, and from a market where family ownership carries a different set of expectations to Europe.

Co-founder and Partner of BanyanGlobal Family Business Advisors, the firm he started in 2012, and a returning voice from the 2025 stage.

He is co-author, with Josh Baron, of the Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook, and writes for Harvard Business Review on family ownership, including “Why Fights Erupt in Family Businesses” and the widely used four-rooms model.

He has twice been named a Top Recommended Family Business Adviser on the Spear’s Family Business Advisers’ Index.

At the 2025 edition he delivered the keynote, How to Soar as an Individual Family Owner, and moderated the next-generation panel. He returns in 2026 to close the day.