EBS University of Business and Law

And that perspective became the foundation for his research career, devoted primarily to the key questions of how family enterprises can endure, in fact, across generations and others are not so successful.

And this question has carried him through various doctoral studies at the European Business School in Ostrich-Winkel, as well as research stays elsewhere at NCED, as well as IMD and IESE Business School.

where he later founded and became the director of the Family Enterprise Legacy Institute, which is now based at the University of Ottawa.

So his research on family dynamics and succession, shareholder agreements, and also the rising gen is regarded among some of the most influential in the field.