IMD Global Family Business Award

Fabian Bonnier, winner of the 2003 IMD Global Family Business Award, is a seventh generation member of the Bonnier family and CTO at SF Anytime.

After graduating from The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, he started his career outside of the family company and in 2007 co-founded the internet advertising company VideoPlaza. After a year, Fabian moved away from the startup environment to work for the global telecom company Ericsson for three years as a sales manager in Sweden, Argentina, and Italy.

In early 2011, Bonnier left Ericsson and entered into the daily operation of the family businesses as a business developer at SF Consumer Entertainment (film distributor and chain of cinema theaters in the Nordics). Today, he holds the position of CTO at SF Anytime, the video-on-demand initiative from SF Consumer Entertainment (an internet streaming service in the Nordics and the Baltics).

Besides the daily work within the Group, Bonnier is active as a board member at the Swedish Family Business Network. He is also an active member within the Bonnier Family Foundation.

BFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. Founder and CEO of the FBN Ecuador chapter from 2013-2019. During this same period of time Cristina was Director of Fundación Corazones Valientes where she played a key role helping children from low-income families with cancer to not abandon their oncological treatment. She is a member of the 4th generation of a family business currently in its 6th generation and has been a member of the Carvajal Family Council for over a decade, currently serving as President of the Family Council since 2020

Ramia Marielle El Agamy is CEO and Co-Founder at Orbis Terra Media, a global content marketing agency and award-winning magazine publisher.

She began her entrepreneurial career in 2008 as the founder and editor-in-chief of Tharawat Magazine, a publication for family businesses and entrepreneurs. Together with her family, she grew the magazine into a globally renowned title that garners hundreds of thousands of readers.

In 2014, El Agamy helped found the content initiative Women in Family Business in response to the lack of diversity in the family enterprise conversation.

In 2016, she expanded Orbis Terra Media by adding content marketing services focused on enabling brands to strengthen their positioning through data-driven content strategies.

El Agamy also serves as strategic support to her family’s non-profit organisation, Tharawat Family Business Forum, a leading network and educational initiative promoting the sustainability of family enterprises in the Middle East and North Africa, and, in 2022, she joined the Board of Trustees at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, UK.

As host of the podcasts The Family Business Voice and Women in Family Business, El Agamy is dedicated to bringing the power of content and technology to individuals and organisations to unlock their growth.

She holds an MSc in International Business and Management from Alliance Manchester Business School (UK).

Judy Green is president of the Family Firm Institute (FFI), an international association of individuals and organizations who advise and study family enterprise.

She is a co-author of The Effects of Goal Orientation and Client Feedback on the Adaptive Behaviors of Family Enterprise Advisors (Family Business Review, September 2013), and her article “Four Aesthetic Models for Relevant Research in the Field of Family Enterprise” appeared in Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise (Emerald Books, August 2010).

A frequent commentator in the field, she was the technical editor of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Successful Family Business.

A recipient of the FFI Barbara Hollander Award, Judy holds a PhD in aesthetics and education from Marquette University as well as a CSS certificate from Harvard University.

Andy Rubin is Chair at Pentland Brands Ltd, a director at the Pentland Group plc, and non-executive director at JD Sports Fashion Plc. He is the third generation to lead the family’s brand management business.

Pentland, winner of the 2017 IMD Global Family Business Award, is a UK based, private family-owned company operating in sports, outdoor, and fashion. The Group owns global brands Speedo, Canterbury, Berghaus, Ellesse, Endura, and Mitre and is the global footwear partner for Lacoste and Karen Millen and is the majority shareholder in JD Sports Fashion plc, an international multichannel retailer in sports, outdoor, and fashion operating 2,500 stores and numerous online businesses.

As well as the 2017 IMD Global Family Business Award, Pentland has won the following:

• 2017 – EY Best Family Business in the UK
• 2014 – Campden Best European Family Business
• 2008 – IFB Best Family Business in UK

Rubin is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and a Companion of the British Academy of Management. He is Vice President and Executive Board Member of the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry.

He is also Chair of the Dean’s Council at Lancaster University Management School and an Honorary Professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation. In addition, he is a Family Advisory Council Member for the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford’s research programme examining the benefits of corporate purpose.

Rubin is involved in numerous charities and is a Trustee of In Kind Direct, the UK’s leading redistribution charity and an Ambassador for Leaders Quest.

He read Law at Trinity College, Cambridge University and received an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Risto Väyrynen is founder of The Impact Office and a fourth-generation entrepreneur currently serving as Chair at his family’s artisanal bakery business in Finland.

Väyrynen has co-founded several start-ups, is an avid impact investor in early stage companies, and has held C-suite and board level positions throughout his career. He also serves as an Ambassador for the Family Business Network International, where he is a passionate advocate of Family Business Sustainability, and he previously led the development of the international Next Generation community as Vice-President of the Next Generation Committee.

He graduated from Family Business Executive MBA program from EDHEC Business School in Lille.

CEO at The Family Business Network (FBN)

Alexis du Roy de Blicquy is the CEO of The Family Business Network (FBN), the world’s leading network run by family businesses, for family businesses, together across generations.

FBN is the world’s leading family business organization. ‘By family businesses’ and ‘for family businesses’’, FBN is a safe, shared-learning space for enterprising families to flourish across generations, through the exchange of excellent, innovative and impactful practices.

A vibrant community founded in 1989, it is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland and brings together over 4,000 business owning families – 17,000 individual members including 6,400 Next-Generation members – in 32 chapters covering 65 countries. Every year, FBN organizes 1,500+ online and face-to-face activities in its chapters, internationally, regionally or locally.

Prior to FBN, du Roy de Blicquy held senior positions in various family businesses, including at Lhoist, Verlinvest, Armonea, also at IFC (World Bank Group). For six years, he was Chairman of the Board at ToolBox, a non-profit organisation that aims to support and develop NGOs by offering professional consultancy.

He is member of the Board at Trusted Family, the leading governance platform for family offices and boards, the Advisory Council at the AITIA Institute in Singapore, and at various cultural and charitable organizations. In 2020, he was recognized as one of Family Capital’s Top 100 Family Influencers.

He holds a Master’s in management science from Solvay Business School and is an INSEAD IEP and IMD HPL graduate.