INSTITUTE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND PRIVATE CAPITAL
Family Office Conference at LBS
The next Family Office Conference is taking place between 25-26 February 2025. Complete the registration of interest form below to check your eligibility.
About
Family Offices (FOs) have grown exponentially over the last decades and today represent an important priority for many business families.
London Business School (LBS) has leveraged its London location, thought leadership, world-class faculty, and extensive network to organise a unique non-commercial event addressed to a select group of single-family office principals and the families that they support.
The conference brings together principals and senior executives in a confidential setting without interference from service providers or entities with commercial interests. Participants will be exposed to leading academic and practitioner insights and will engage in joint learning and network building.
What is in it for you?
Safe space environment - We are committed to deliver an environment where participants can meet other families and explore innovative ideas without the distractions of service providers*.
Interactive and collaborative space - We will create an interactive and collaborative space for participants. Short panel discussions will be followed by structured and spontaneous small group discussions, ensuring the active participation of all.
Thought leadership - We will include practitioner talks and insights shared by LBS faculty working at the forefront of global business research and providing leading academic expertise.
Knowledge sharing - We will enable facilitated conversations where participants can share their experiences and discuss solutions to common problems. Facilitators will provide summary write ups after the conference.
Networking - We will provide wide opportunities throughout the day to network with your peers from other Family Offices.
*Disclaimer: The upcoming conference is sponsored by Schroders, a global family office and private asset investment specialist. Schroders will participate in a supporting and non-commercial capacity.
Who is it for?
Admission is reserved for family members, principals of single-family offices and senior family office leadership (CEO, CFO, COO).
Due to the nature of our event, applicants who provide advisory services, raise capital or work for an entity that provides a service/product to wealthy individuals will not be admitted.
Please complete the registration of interest form below to check if you are eligible.
Tickets
This is an invitation only, paid event with General Admission tickets costing £975. A ten percent discount is offered to LBS students and alumni. After confirming eligibility, individuals who qualify will receive their exclusive personal invitation.
Lessons learned at the LBS Family Office Conference 2023
Find out about our new Family Office Programme
Family Office Conference 2025
- Day one | 25 February
- Day two | 26 February
On the initial day, leading academics and practitioners will share insights and hypotheses, leading to facilitated roundtable discussions where participants exchange their experiences and perspectives. This knowledge will be systematically captured and disseminated both spontaneously and through summarized proceedings.
Please see a preliminary agenda below:
Registration and breakfast
Opening remarks
- Florin Vasvari, Professor of Accounting; Academic Director of the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital, London Business School
Welcome remarks from Event Supporter
Leonie Schroder, Non-executive Director, Schroders
Keynote | CEO Succession in Family Businesses: The Performance Impact of Hiring a Family vs Non-Family CEO
- Sendil Ethiraj, Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship; Deputy Dean
Session 1 | Transforming Family Office Portfolios
- Richard Nourse, Founder and Managing Partner, Greencoat Capital
- Jeannine Daniel, Managing Director, CIO, Cara Advisory (UK) Limited
- Glenn Fuhrman, Co-Founder and Co-Managing Partner, Tru Arrow
- Moderated by: Florin Vasvari, Professor of Accounting; Academic Director of the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital, London Business School
Session 1 | Roundtable discussion and debrief
Coffee break and networking
Session 2 | Emotional Capital and the Resilient Family Enterprise: How Families Use Emotional Ties to Ensure Longevity
- Séverine Mulliez, Family and Board member, Association Familiale Mulliez
- Sophie Cuendet du Roy, Family member and Family Office Managing Director
- Moderated by: Åsa Björnberg, Executive Fellow, London Business School
Session 2 Roundtable discussion and debrief
Lunch
Fireside chat | Our story: Leadership, Succession and Family Business as a Force for Good
- Steve Rigby, Co-CEO, The Rigby Group
Moderated by: Rhian-Anwen Hamill, Managing Partner, RAH Partners Ltd
Session 3 | Cybersecurity and Managing Digital Risk
- Peter Connolly, Founder, Toro Solutions
- Moderated by: Ralph Welpe, Chairman and CEO, Mirai Capital Partners
Session 3 Roundtable discussion and debrief
Coffee break and networking
Fireside chat: The Geopolitical Effect on Family Enterprise
- Sergei Guriev, Dean, London Business School
- Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Day Debrief
- Luisa Alemany, Associate Professor of Management Practice in Strategy and Entrepreneurship; Academic Director of the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital, London Business School
Networking reception and canapés
The roundtables will be moderated by a selection of expert facilitators.
Vidur Varma
Guest lecturer, London Business School
Experience
Vidur is a Guest Lecturer at LBS and teaches the Wealth Management and Equity Investment Management electives for the master’s programs and Personal Finance core subject for Master’s in Financial Analysis programme.
He frequently teaches on ESG & Sustainable investing, Capital Markets, Hedge Funds & Liquid Alternatives, Technology trends, Crypto and Real Estate investing, in other elective courses, and for Executive Education.
As a practitioner, he brings together his experience and knowledge of the markets and business, to connect the dots between market events, academic concepts, current trends, and the future.
Vidur has 24 years’ experience in banking and financial services - wealth management, investments, consumer banking, insurance, FX, and payments; across private clients, affluent & mass affluent customer segments, and has worked in UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia. He has worked for 22 years in Citibank, and his last role at Citibank was as Director – Head of Wealth Management for Citibank UK and Citi International Personal Bank EMEA (offshore banking), covering P&L, strategy, product management, investment advisory, leading client facing specialist & advisory teams.
Vidur has extensively worked with wealthy families and family offices to help them with strategies to manage portfolios, intergenerational wealth transfer, set up & run family office, develop & execute investment strategies, identify external managers, invest in alternatives, manage risk, set up governance structure, understand & adapt to market changes & technology evolution, train the younger generation on wealth, and helping build family legacy.
Vidur has been on the UK Finance – Personal Finance committee and before that on the British Bankers Association – Personal Products and Services’ committee. He has also been the Chair of Citibank Consumer CASS Sub Committee for Client Assets. During his career he has extensively presented at industry conferences, client events, panel discussions and appeared on CNBC.
Currently, Vidur is a yoga teacher focusing on physical and mental well-being, managing stress, finding your purpose, and achieving full potential.
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Previous events
What can you expect from the Family Office Conference at LBS? Explore the topics discussed and the line-up of speakers from previous years.
About the organiser
The IEPC supports the development of entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial ideas that drive impact, create wealth and advance well-being. The IEPC also conducts research underpinning today’s private capital markets including venture capital, private equity, growth, buyouts, and the broader private capital ecosystem.
A central ambition of the IEPC is to grow our family enterprise linked research, teaching, and events programmes. For us family enterprise covers the full family ownership spectrum, bringing together business owning families with those managing their own single-family offices. We believe the IEPC’s twin strengths of business entrepreneurship and private capital management are central to understanding family enterprise now and into the future.
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