G5, Advisory Committee Member of Aliaxis Next & Co-founder of Trusted Family

Edouard Thijssen

G5, Advisory Committee Member of Aliaxis Next & Co-founder of Trusted Family

Edouard Thijssen is Founder of Trusted Family, a member of the family behind the Belgian Aliaxis Group and Global Head of Business Development at Tema ETFS.

Trusted Family is the leading operating system platform for multi-generational family businesses and family offices. The platform is used by 200+ of the world's leading business families.

Aliaxis is a global leader in advanced fluid management solutions that enable access to water and energy.

Tema ETFs is a fast growing active ETF Manager that empowers investors with unexplored, innovative and durable investment opportunities. As an example, Tema launched a GLP1 and Weight Loss ETF and a Cancer ETF. Tema is backed by Index Ventures and Accel.

Edouard graduated in 2007 from the Solvay Business School. He has also completed the Leading the Family Business program at IMD, Switzerland.Edouard Thijssen is co-founder of Trusted Family, and a member of the family behind the Belgian Aliaxis Group. Aliaxis is a global leader in advanced fluid management solutions that enable access to water and energy. Edouard sits on the advisory committee of Aliaxis Next, the corporate venture arm of the Aliaxis Group. Trusted Family is the leading operating platform for multi-generational family businesses and family offices. The platform is used by 200+ of the world's leading business families. Edouard graduated in 2007 from the Solvay Business School. He has also completed the Leading the Family Business program at IMD, Switzerland.

Session

Community Lab Large Families - How to develop a new ownership and family vision and governance structure for long term family success

Community Lab

Edouard will share the work they did as a family to develop a 2035 ownership and family vision. Long term thinking and strategy is key for long term success of family businesses. Businesses make business plans for 3 to 5 years, families think in generations. He will also share how a group of rising generation members worked on a project to review the family governance’s effectiveness, benchmarked it against other global families and suggested practical areas of improvement.

Participants in the session will learn how family structures, governance practices and vision should evolve from generation to generation to remain successful and inspiring to its members. In this interactive workshop, participants will be given the opportunity to brainstorm in smaller groups on how they can become drivers of change in their own family enterprises based on their respective family challenges and priorities.

FOR WHOM IS THIS?

You come from a large family / cousin consortium, with dozens or more family shareholders. Key questions: how to insure the family cohesion, what should be our diversification strategy, how to move toward a fair, agile and effective governance?