Ensuring Your Family-Owned Business Last...

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Save the dateOctober 27, 202112:00 PM - 1:00 PM (EDT)

Organizer

Organizer: Plaza College, JW Hampton Jr. & Co. Inc., Queens Chamber of Commerce

Phone: +1 7188988500

Contact Person: Jef Gross

Email: jgross@queenschamber.org

Event Details

This program covers effective strategies for family-owned businesses to improve their businesses, strengthen the family dynamic relationships, and build a great reputation and legacy that will stand the test of time.

The workshop will provide participants with an overview of the attributes of the modern family business, including the shared challenges that many face to keep their business thriving in today's market.

Understanding the attributes and challenges will help the participants to understand the context for the established best practices and strategies.

Mark your calendars and join us for this important conversation for the sake of your family-owned business.

Speakers

Warner Babcock

AM Private Enterprises

Warner Babcock

AM Private Enterprises

Warner King Babcock was a co-founder and CEO of NYC Family Enterprise Center. He is a Family Firm Institute Fellow and National Association of Corporate Directors Governance Fellow, and has been an advisor to family businesses, a family council member, family business CEO, board member, and a trustee of family trusts controlling family businesses, investments and special needs trust.

Mr. Babcock has served on many for-profit and nonprofit boards over the past 25 years, including Attorneys for Family-Held Enterprises, Inc., the Lawrence Field Center for Entrepreneurship, and a boarding school. He has served as Chairman of Governance, Nominating, Bylaws, Membership, Enrollment, Financial Aid and Endowment Committees, as well as the Chair and President of several boards.

Previously, Mr. Babcock founded a leading corporate strategy and development firm, Advanced Materials Partners, and led many teams of senior professionals from 1987-2011, working with very large and small family businesses, public and private companies. Mr. Babcock was also the Founder, Chairman and CEO of AM Private Investments, a registered investment advisor focused on working exclusively with next generation family members and family office personnel on forming new ventures and making direct investments, beginning in the early 1990s. Mr. Babcock merged these two firms in 2011, forming AM Private Enterprises, Inc. to focus on new forward thinking initiatives to assist family enterprises.

Earlier in his career he founded a manufacturing company based on his patented inventions. He has taught MBA and undergraduate courses on boards, family business and governance in NYC, and he has published in Family Business magazine, Trusts & Estates and other leading publications. He has also been featured in the New York Times.

Chad Callahan

Chief Operating Officer at Plazacollege

Chad Callahan

Chief Operating Officer at Plazacollege

https://www.plazacollege.edu

Chad Callahan is the Chief Operating Officer of Plaza College, a family-owned College founded in 1916 and accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

In his tenure at the college, he has led the construction and development of Plaza's Forest Hills campus, introduced innovative and exciting educational programs (including the only Dental Hygiene degree program in Queens), and established the Plaza College Community Dental Clinic offering free oral hygiene services to the residents of NYC.

Chad and his team are looking forward to the forthcoming introduction of Plaza College's School of Nursing, offering a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing and featuring an advanced simulation center.

Chad holds his BS and MBA from St. John’s University, is a certified public accountant, and is active with the Queens Chamber of Commerce.

Mike Shoule

Vice President at J.W. Hampton Jr. & Co., Inc.

Sponsors and Partners

Tickets

Complimentary Virtual Ticket

Complimentary

Strategies to Improve Business, Strengthen the Family and Build Reputation

Warner Babcock

AM Private Enterprises

Chad Callahan

Chief Operating Officer at Plazacollege

Mike Shoule

Vice President at J.W. Hampton Jr. & Co., Inc.

Organizer

Complimentary Virtual Ticket