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2nd European Family Business Summit17 November 2015, Paris

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Philippe d’Ornano, Sisley & Co-President of METI

After studying law, economics and political science in Paris, then serving as an infan-try officer, Philippe d’Ornano joined the family business in 1986.His first assignment was with the French market, where he became sales manager in 1988; he then took charge of the brand’s European development in 1990 and went on to create and develop 16 distribution subsidiaries. After his appointment as Executive Vice President in 1998, then President in 2001, he has pursued, alongside Sisley founders Hubert and Isabelle d’Ornano, chairman and vice chairman of Sisley, as well as his younger sister Christine, the development of Sisley in the world, notably by creating the brand’s Asian subsidiaries and opening regional offices in Hong Kong, Miami and Dubai. The business operates in more than 90 countries, has a network of 30 distribution subsidiaries and employs people from more than 100 different nationalities: he therefore travels extensively, spending around one third of his time outside France.Philippe d’Ornano takes a keen interest in broader social and business issues and the problems specific to family-owned enterprises: he was involved, with his father Hubert, in the creation of the French Association of Patrimonial Medium-sized Busi-nesses (ASMEP, now METI) founded by Yvon Gattaz. He is today co-President of this organisation.

Anne Le Lorier, Deputy Governor of the Banque de France

Anne Le Lorier has been appointed Deputy Governor of the Banque de France in November 2011.After graduating from the École Nationale d’Administration in 1977, she joined the Treasury, at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, where she spent most of her ca-reer. In 1981 she was appointed as France’s Alternate at the International Monetary Fund.In 1996, she became head of the Financing and Government Shareholding Depart-ment in the Treasury, then in 1998 head of the Monetary and Financial Affairs De-partment and, in this capacity, Censor of the Banque de France. In 2001, she joined the company Fimalac as a specially-appointed adviser to the Chairman and a mem-ber of the Executive Committee.In April 2002, she joined the EDF group, where she occupied various posts: Director, then Deputy Director General of Corporate Finance and Treasury Management of the EDF group and Director delegated to the Secretary General, with responsibility for the Group Risks Directorate and the Audit Directorate.She has been awarded the honours of Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite and Officier de la Légion d’Honneur.


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Elizabeth Ducottet, Thuasne & Co-President of METI

Elizabeth Ducottet is CEO of Thuasne, an independent and international Group. She represents the 5th generation of this French industrial family business, created in 1847, that produces and markets medical textile devices dedicated to vascular and orthopaedic pathologies.Elizabeth Ducottet has been managing the Group since 1991. Her other duties are: Co-president of METI (formerly ASMEP-ETI, syndicate for French mid-caps); Member of the General Council of the Banque de France; Member of the Chamber of Com-merce and Industry of Paris; Member of the CNI (National council for industry/Con-seil national de l’industrie); President of the R3I Lab (Réseau Industriel d’Innovation Textile-Habillement), a network of industrialists, created by the Minister for Industry, in January 2002; Member of the Board in several institutions related to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris; Elizabeth Ducottet is also a member of the Stra-tegic Steering Committee of Ernst & Young, Member of the board of Universcience, Member of the Fabrique de l’Industrie (resulting from the Gallois report).Elizabeth Ducottet is “Officier dans l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur“, and was awarded “Commandeur dans l’Ordre national du Mérite“ (January 2015), in recognition of the work she has achieved both in the Group as well as for the indus-try in France.


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Elizabeth Ducottet is CEO of Thuasne, an independent and international Group. She represents the 5th generation of this French industrial family business, created in 1847, that produces and markets medical textile devices dedicated to vascular and orthopaedic pathologies.Elizabeth Ducottet has been managing the Group since 1991. Her other duties are: Co-president of METI (formerly ASMEP-ETI, syndicate for French mid-caps); Member of the General Council of the Banque de France; Member of the Chamber of Com-merce and Industry of Paris; Member of the CNI (National council for industry/Con-seil national de l’industrie); President of the R3I Lab (Réseau Industriel d’Innovation Textile-Habillement), a network of industrialists, created by the Minister for Industry, in January 2002; Member of the Board in several institutions related to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris; Elizabeth Ducottet is also a member of the Stra-tegic Steering Committee of Ernst & Young, Member of the board of Universcience, Member of the Fabrique de l’Industrie (resulting from the Gallois report).Elizabeth Ducottet is “Officier dans l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur“, and was awarded “Commandeur dans l’Ordre national du Mérite“ (January 2015), in recognition of the work she has achieved both in the Group as well as for the indus-try in France.

Jesús Casado Navarro-Rubio, Secretary General of EFB

Jesús Casado is the Secretary General of European Family Businesses since 2006. EFB is a federation based in Brussels of 12 National Family Businesses associations that aims to promote policies that are conductive to long term entrepreneurship in Europe. Its members, more than 9.000 family business owners, represent directly a turnover in excess of one trillion Euros, 9% of the European GDP.Since May 2014, he is the Deputy General Director of Instituto de la Empresa Familiar, the Spanish Family Business Association.He is also a member of the Board of the Family Firm Institute and Academic Collabo-rator of Family Business at ESADE Barcelona.Previously he served as a member of the European Commission Expert Group on Family Business, as a member of the High Level Group of Administrative Burdens reporting directly to President of the European Commission and as a member of the Executive Committee of Family Business Network (FBN).Jesús holds a MBA at ESADE Business School (2006-2007) and a degree in Law (1989/1994) at Universidad Pontificia de Comillas ICADE (Madrid).He also has post-graduate studies at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany) (1994), at the Spanish Diplomatic School (1995/1998) and at Institut de Sciences Politiques de Paris (1997).He is married, has one child and lives between Brussels and Madrid.


Elizabeth Ducottet is CEO of Thuasne, an independent and international Group. She represents the 5th generation of this French industrial family business, created in 1847, that produces and markets medical textile devices dedicated to vascular and orthopaedic pathologies.Elizabeth Ducottet has been managing the Group since 1991. Her other duties are: Co-president of METI (formerly ASMEP-ETI, syndicate for French mid-caps); Member of the General Council of the Banque de France; Member of the Chamber of Com-merce and Industry of Paris; Member of the CNI (National council for industry/Con-seil national de l’industrie); President of the R3I Lab (Réseau Industriel d’Innovation Textile-Habillement), a network of industrialists, created by the Minister for Industry,in January 2002; Member of the Board in several institutions related to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris; Elizabeth Ducottet is also a member of the Stra-tegic Steering Committee of Ernst & Young, Member of the board of Universcience, Member of the Fabrique de l’Industrie (resulting from the Gallois report).Elizabeth Ducottet is “Officer dans l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur”, and was awarded “Commandeur dans l’Ordre national du Mérite“ (January 2015), in recognition of the work she has achieved both in the Group as well as for the indus-try in France.


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Alfonso Líbano, COBEGA & Acting-Chairman of EFB

ALFONSO LIBANO DAURELLA comes from a family with a long history in the Family Business since the 19th Century and for the last 60 years, mostly in the Coca-Cola business. He is currently the CEO of COBEGA, S.A., familiar holding owing, among other businesses, Coca-Cola Iberian Partners, S.A., Coca-Cola Bottler for the Iberi-an Division; Spain, Portugal and Andorra were he serves as Director of the Board & Member of the Executive Committee.He is also Chairman of Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling Company, S.L., the Coca-Cola Bottler franchise for 12 African countries in North and West Africa, as well as Mem-ber of the Board of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt and Vice Chairman of MECC SOFT DRINKS, DMCC, Coca-Cola franchise for the territory of South Sudan. Moreover, he has been Trustee of the Coca-Cola Africa Foundation since 2004. He also belongs to the Board of VIFILFELL HF, Coca-Cola Bottler for Iceland.Alfonso sits on numerous boards of private companies such as Cacaolat and Ne-spresso. In addition, he also sits on public organizations including the AMCHAM (American Chamber of Commerce in Spain) and the MACBA Foundation (Contem-porary Art Museum of Barcelona). He has been involved with the Family Business Institute of Spain (IEF) since 1991 as Founding Member and Secretary of the Board of Directors from 2000 to 2004. Cur-rently he is Member of the International Commission.Alfonso has been a Board Member of European Family Business (EFB) since 2007, and is now EFB’s Acting President. Moreover, he is Board Member & Treasurer of the Family Business Network (FBN). He carried out his studies of Economics at the Public University of Barcelona. He is married, has one son and one daughter.

Luc Darbonne, Daregal & President of FBN France

Luc Darbonne is a member of the 4th generation of Daregal family business. As the inventor of the frozen culinary herbs, he has made the business the worldwide lead-er in its field and successfully passed it on to the 5th generation. The company em-ploys over 500 people, in Europe with Daregal and in North America with Daregal Inc. and SupHerb Farms. Luc is the President of FBN France and an Ambassador of FBN International. He actively supports the French Family Business model and works on its continuity. Therefore, Luc is a Board Member of METI and EFB. He also serves on the Board of Poclain Hydraulics, the Société des Agriculteurs de France (Associ-ation of French Farmers) and ANRT (Association Nationale de la Recherche & Tech-nologie). Furthermore, he regularly works as a consultant for the Banque de France.


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Jacky Lintignat, Managing Director, Board Member of KPMG France

Jacky Lintignat is the general director of KPMG France. Having studied at the Rouen Business School and acquired a master in finance Paris, he started his career at KPMG working in the office of Limoges, continuing to be promoted as Regional Director of South West France. Being promoted CEO of KPMG France in 2005, Jacky has worked on several family business related topics during the past years.

Frédéric Coirier, CEO, Poujoulat

Frédéric Coirier is the chairman of the POUJOULAT Group (200M€ turnover and 1400 employees), the leading European manufacturer of chimney flues and stacks for dwellings, commercial and industrial applications. The POUJOULAT Group has developed new activities such as the production and distribution of high quality wood fuels (pellets and logs). In the last 10 years, the POUJOULAT Group turnover has tripled. Frédéric Coirier is also Vice-President of the French middle-size company association (METI) and also member of the board of the French renewable energy association (SER).

Jens Fiege, Member of the Board, Fiege Logistic Group

Jens began his professional career at Bertelsmann Ventures, working in Hamburg, Paris and Santa Barbara. He then moved on to Lufthansa Technik Logistik where he started to work in the field of logistics, working as a technical logistics provider in Hamburg. In 2004, he joined the family group becoming Managing Director of Fiege International. Since 2009 he is a Member of the Board Fiege Logistic Group. Fiege has been operating since 1873 and prides itself pioneering contract logistics. It employs 9000 people across 15 countries with 160 branches. Its turnover in 2014 was 1.4 billon EUR.


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Beatrice Ballini, Leader of Family Practice, Russell Reynolds Associates

Based in Paris, Beatrice Ballini conducts global assignments for prestigious clients in the luxury, retail and fashion space. Beatrice works with several family businesses in Europe assisting them in succession planning and leadership development.

Beatrice received her LAUREA degree in Chemical Engineering from the Milan Poly- technic and her M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her M.B.A. from the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management, where she was awarded the Brooks Prize. She is fluent in Italian, French and English.

Duncan Grant, Director of Multichannel, The Entertainer

Duncan began his career by training as a Chartered Accountant at KPMG’s London office, working with clients in the Financial and Private Equity sectors. He joined The Entertainer in 2006 as Business Development Manager before moving into the role of Multichannel Director, which he held for 5 years. During that time The Entertainer developed a new website platform and multichannel infrastructure, launching ser-vices such as 30 minute Click & Collect and 90 minute home delivery.In 2014 Duncan moved to the role of Strategy Director where his key focus is on facilitating the growth of the business and developing new opportunities for ex-pansion. In 2014 he helped launch The Entertainer’s International division and the opening the first stores outside of the UK. In addition to his role at The Entertainer Duncan has also been working to establish a family office and a family council to improve shareholder governance prepare and the business for the emergence of the third generation.The Entertainer is the UK’s largest chain of toy shops, operating 120 stores in shop-ping malls and city centres across the UK. The business was established by husband and wife, Catherine and Gary Grant, in 1981 with a single store in Amersham. The business has opened over 40 stores in the past 3 years and intends on continuing its growth of around 15-20 new stores per year in the UK.


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Duncan began his career by training as a Chartered Accountant at KPMG’s London office, working with clients in the Financial and Private Equity sectors. He joined The Entertainer in 2006 as Business Development Manager before moving into the role of Multichannel Director, which he held for 5 years. During that time The Entertainer developed a new website platform and multichannel infrastructure, launching ser-vices such as 30 minute Click & Collect and 90 minute home delivery. In 2014 Duncan moved to the role of Strategy Director where his key focus is on facilitating the growth of the business and developing new opportunities for ex-pansion. In 2014 he helped launch The Entertainer’s International division and the opening th e first stores outside of the UK. In addition to his role at The Entertainer Duncan has also been working to establish a family office and a family council to improve shareholder governance prepare and the business for the emergence of the third generation.The Entertainer is the UK’s largest chain of toy shops, operating 120 stores in shop-ping malls and city centres across the UK. The business was established by husband and wife, Catherine and Gary Grant, in 1981 with a single store in Amersham. The business has opened over 40 stores in the past 3 years and intends on continuing its growth of around 15-20 new stores per year in the UK.



Beatrice received her LAUREA degree in Chemical Engineering from the Milan Poly-technic and her M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her M.B.A. from the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management, where she was awarded the Brooks Prize. She is fluent in Italian, French and English.


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Dr. Leif Melin, Professor of Family Business Strategy, Jönköping International Business School

Leif Melin is Professor of Strategy and Organisation, and the Hamrin Professor of Family Business Strategy at Jönköping International Business School (JIBS).He was the Founding Director (2005-2012) of CeFEO, the Center for Family Enter-prise and Ownership at JIBS, an internationally leading centre for research and learning on family business and ownership issues, with about 30 researchers active in research projects and outreach activities. He has also served as Dean and Managing Director of JIBS and been a Visiting Pro-fessor at many institutions, lately at ESADE, Barcelona and Lancaster University Man-agement School. Presently he serves as a Director of the Board of the Family Firm Institute (FFI).His research focuses on strategizing in different contexts, the last 15 years with a focus on family owned businesses. He is especially interested in the practices, pro-cesses and arenas for active ownership. He is a founding member of the Global STEP research project (Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practices). He initi-ated and has since 2005 been a co-chair of the Annual EIASM Family Firm Research Conference.He has published in numerous international journals and book volumes, including the new “Sage Handbook of Family Business” (2014). He has served on the editorial boards for over ten international journals, including Strategic management Journal, Family Business Review and Journal of Family Business Strategy. He has received several awards, most recently the FFI International Award (2012) for outstanding contributions in the field of family business. He is a Fellow of both FFI and IFERA.

Adrian Wooldridge, Management Editor, The Economist

Adrian Wooldridge is The Economist’s management editor and writes the Schum-peter column. He was previously based in Washington, DC, as the Washington bu-reau chief where he also wrote the Lexington column. Previously he has been The Economist’s West Coast correspondent, management correspondent and Britain correspondent. He is the co-author of “The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea”, “A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalisation”, “Witch Doc-tors”, a critical examination of management theory, and “The Right Nation”, a study of conservatism in America. His most recent book is “Masters of Management: How the Business Gurus and their Ideas have Changed the World—for Better and for Worse”. Adrian is also the author of The Economist special report on family business (‘To have and to hold’ 16th April 2015).


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Emmanuel VIELLARD, Vice-President and CEO, LISI Group

Since 2000, Emmanuel is Vice-President and CEO of LISI Group, a company special-ising in the design and supply of high-tech parts and assemblies to 3 markets Aero-space, Automotive and Medical implants with leading customers in their respective sectors such as Airbus, Boeing, BMW, Renault, PSA, or Stryker Corporation. A gradu-ate of EDHEC in 1986, he chose naturally follow the curriculum of the entrepreneur. To prepare for his future responsibilities, he decided to join the audit firm Arthur Andersen, completing his academic career in financial advice. Promoted to Man-ager, he left Arthur Andersen and went into the family business LISI (formerly GFI Industries) in 1995 to occupy various positions at LISI Aerospace. In 2000, Emmanuel Viellard takes on the responsibility of Vice-President and CEO of LISI, President of both LISI Aerospace and LISI Medical, alongside Gilles Kohler, Chairman of LISI Auto-motive . He is also the CEO of Viellard Migeon & Cie, the family Company founded in 1796 and major shareholder at LISI. He is a Judge at the Commercial Court, Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite and Reserve Commander of the French Navy Special Forces.

Angelika Niebler, Member of the European Parliament

Angelika Niebler is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Bavaria (Christian Social Union) since 1999. She is a Member of the Bureau of the European People‘s Party. Since 2014 she is the Chairwoman of the CSU delegation in the EPP group and Co-Chairwoman of the German Delegation in the EPP group. She sits on the European Parliament‘s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, and its Committee on Women‘s Rights and Gender Equality. In addition, she is a substi-tute member of the Legal Affairs Committee. She is also a member of the Delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula.Angelika Niebler has always been a staunch supporter of family businesses. Signifi-cantly, she was the rapporteur for the European Parliaments own initiative report on family businesses in Europe which was passed in September.


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Since 2000, Emmanuel is Vice-President and CEO of LISI Group, a company specialising in the design and supply of high-tech parts and assemblies to 3 markets Aerospace, Automotive and Medical implants with leading customers in their respective sectors such as Airbus, Boeing, BMW, Renault, PSA, or Stryker Corporation. A graduate of EDHEC in 1986, he chose naturally follow the curriculum of the entrepreneur. To prepare for his future responsibilities, he decided to join the audit firm Arthur Andersen, completing his academic career in financial advice. Pro-moted to Manager, he left Arthur Andersen and went into the family business LISI (formerly GFI Industries) in 1995 to occupy various positions at LISI Aerospace. In 2000, Emmanu-el Viellard takes on the responsibility of Vice-President and CEO of LISI, President of both LISI Aerospace and LISI Medical, alongside Gilles Kohler, Chairman of LISI Automotive. He is also the CEO of Viellard Migeon & Cie, the family Company founded in 1796 and major shareholder at LISI. He is a Judge at the Commercial Court, Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite and Reserve Commander of the French Navy Special Forces.

Florencio Lopez de Silanes, Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School

Florencio Lopez de Silanes is Professor of Finance and Law and Director of Corporate Gover-nance Research Programme at the EDHEC Business School. His research interests and main publications fall in the areas of International Corporate Finance and Financial Markets, Legal Reform and Privatization. He has been an advisor on these topics to several governments, international institutions and corporations. Some of his research shows the relevance of law and institutions for the functioning of markets and their development. He has many publications in top finance and economics journals and has recently published two books on Investor Protection and the Benefits of Privatization in Latin America. Among other distinctions, he received Harvard’s Wells Prize for the Best Dissertation in Economics (1995), the Brattle Prize for distinguished paper in the Journal of Finance of the American Finance Association (1999), and the Jensen Prize for the best papers published in the Journal of Financial Economics in the Areas of Corporate Finance and Organizations (2000). He is one of the top three most cited researchers in the world in economics and business in the last 10 years. Before coming to France, he was a professor at the universities of Harvard, Yale, Amster-dam, and the Ecole Normale Superieur in Paris.


Angelika Niebler is a German politician and Member of the European Parliamentfor Bavaria (Christian Social Union) since 1999. She is a Member of the Bureau of theEuropean People‘s Party. Since 2014 she is the Chairwoman of the CSU delegation inthe EPP group and Co-Chairwoman of the German Delegation in the EPP group. Shesits on the European Parliament‘s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, andits Committee on Women‘s Rights and Gender Equality. In addition, she is a substitutemember of the Legal Affairs Committee. She is also a member of the Delegationfor relations with the Arab Peninsula.Angelika Niebler has always been a staunch supporter of family businesses. Significantly,she was the rapporteur for the European Parliaments own initiative report onfamily businesses in Europe which was passed in September.


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Anthony L. Gardner, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union

Anthony L. Gardner was sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union on February 18, 2014. He presented his credentials to European Council President Van Rompuy and European Commission President Barroso on March 18.Prior to assuming his current position, Ambassador Gardner was Managing Director for six years at Palamon Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in London that focuses on providing growth capital to fast growing businesses in a wide variety of service sectors throughout Western Europe. In that capacity he managed financing, legal and tax structuring issues related to the firm’s acquisitions and divestitures.Previously, Ambassador Gardner served as an Executive Director in the leveraged finance departments of Bank of America and GE Capital and as a Director in the in-ternational acquisitions group of GE International, all based in London. He has also worked as a Senior Associate at international law firms in London, Paris, New York, and Brussels.

Sophie Pedder, The Economist

Sophie Pedder is The Economist Paris Bureau Chief, a post she has held since 2003. She is responsible for the paper’s political and economic coverage of France. She joined The Economist in 1990 in London, writing about British politics. After cover-ing the end of apartheid for the paper she was posted to Johannesburg in 1995 to open The Economist’s first bureau in southern Africa, returning to London in 1998 to become deputy Europe Editor and then global media editor. She is the author of ‘Le déni français’, published by JC Lattès (2012). She holds a first-class degree from Oxford University and an MA from the Universi-ty of Chicago, where she was a post-graduate Fulbright Scholar. Before joining The Economist she was a researcher for William Julius Wilson at the University of Chica-go’s Urban Family Life and Poverty Project.

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