The first Asturian Family Business Forum, to be held next Wednesday in Oviedo, will analyze the growth and succession strategies of these companies that form part of the backbone of the Principality’s economy with the help of experts, businessmen and managers. The inaugural edition of the Forum, organized by the Asturian Family Business Association (Aefas) and LA NUEVA ESPAÑA, is entitled “Business Families: New Times, New Challenges” and is sponsored by Santander, Ontier and The Family Advisory Board (TFAB) . The Siero City Council collaborates.
Andrés Sendagorta, president of the Family Business Institute (IEF); José María Salazar, president of the Asturian Family Business Association (Aefas), and Gonzalo M. Peón, director of LA NUEVA ESPAÑA, will inaugurate the Forum, which will be held on November 30 at 10:25 a.m. at the Asturian Press Club with assistance by invitation.
The economist Manuel Bermejo, considered one of the foremost experts in family business, will give the presentation “New times, new paradigms in business families”. The son and grandson of successful businessmen and a former senior manager of companies in sectors such as venture capital, agri-food and entertainment, Bermejo is currently a professor at IE Business School and president of The Family Advisory Board, a global firm from which he accompanies as advisor to numerous business families in Europe and Latin America.
After the expert’s presentation, two discussion tables will be held with the participation of businessmen and managers who will speak from experience.
The first table is entitled “How to grow in environments as complex and dynamic as the current ones” and will include the participation of Patricia Riberas, director of Transformation and Organization of the Basque group Gestamp and president of the IEF Family Forum; Maite Marín, director of the Mas Camarena Educational Complex of the Valencian Community, and Luis Fernández-Vega, ophthalmologist of the Cornea and Crystalline Unit of the Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute of Oviedo.
The second table-colloquium is entitled “How to organize a succession process that reinforces the legacy of the business family” and will participate in it Bárbara Brun, head of Quality and Occupational Risk Prevention of the Oviedo company Vallas y Casetas Brun and president of the Family Forum of Aefas; Natalia Alciturri, CEO of the Cantabrian information technology company Semicrol, and Juan Moya, vice president of the Sevillian company that manufactures and markets home care and personal care products, Persán.
Borja Sánchez, Minister of Science, Innovation and University of the Principality, will be in charge of closing the first Asturian Family Business Forum.