IMD Global Family Business Award

Bonnier won the 2003 IMD Global Family Business Award.

Fabian is a 7th generation member of the Bonnier family. After graduating from The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm he started his career outside of the family company.

He co-founded the Internet advertising company VideoPlaza in 2007. After a year Fabian moved away from the start-up environment to work for the global telecom company Ericsson. During the 3 years within Ericsson Fabian worked as a sales manager in Sweden, Argentina and Italy.

Early 2011 Fabian 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 Fabian holds the position as CTO for SF Anytime, the Video On Demand initiative from SF Consumer Entertainment (a service that digitally stream movies over the Internet in the Nordics as well as the Baltics).

Besides the daily work within the Bonnier group Fabian is active as a board member for the Swedish Family Business Network. He is also an active member within the Bonnier Family Foundation.

Fabian lives in Stockholm with his wife Johanna.

Ramia Marielle El Agamy is the CEO and Co-Founder of 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, Ramia helped found the content initiative Women in Family Business in response to the lack of diversity in the family enterprise conversation. Ramia expanded Orbis Terra Media in 2016 by adding content marketing services focused on enabling brands to strengthen their positioning through data-driven content strategies. She hosts the podcasts 'The Family Business Voice' and 'Women in Family Business'. She is dedicated to bringing the power of content and technology to individuals and organisations to unlock their growth. 

Ramia 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. In 2022, she joined the Board of Trustees of Shakespeare’s Globe in London, UK.

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

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

A frequent commentator in the field, she was the technical editor of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Successful Family Business. Her article “Four Aesthetic Models for Relevant Research in the Field of Family Enterprise” appeared in Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise (Emerald Books, August  2010) and 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).

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

Firmenich won the 2011 IMD Global Family Business Award.

Marie-Christine, a 3rd generation member of the Firmenich family, earned both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Chemistry at the University of Geneva.

Marie-Christine’s professional career started outside of the firm with The Dow Chemical Company, where she was responsible for modernizing the procurement of information before the Internet existed. She went on to join SRI International (formerly the Stanford Research Institute) where she spent two years doing market research for the chemical and allied industries. Then, together with her husband, she started IDONIS, a company that specialized in research, procurement and information and library management services for the chemical and allied industries. She was also the Financial Times Online Division’s sole agent for Switzerland, where she successfully increased sales of FT’s online products by 25% for five consecutive years. Marie-Christine has also served on a number of boards, including GESREP SA and Sentarom.

Marie-Christine is family board member. She also serves on the board of International Partners Limited and she is the president of ROBMAR, a foundation she created in memory of her parents – Robert E. Firmenich and Marie-Louise Firmenich-Brand.

Marie-Christine is married to Urs Jaeger and she lives in Schindellegi in the Zurich region of Switzerland. She enjoys swimming, tennis, skiing, reading, Asian art and has a special interest in animals.

Pentland Group plc won the 2017 IMD Global Family Business Award.

Andy Rubin is Chair of Pentland Brands Ltd, a director of Pentland Group plc and non-executive director of JD Sports Fashion Plc.

Pentland is a UK based, private family owned company operating in sports, outdoor and fashion. Andy is the third generation to lead the family’s brand management business.

Pentland owns global brands Speedo, Canterbury, Berghaus, Ellesse, Endura and Mitre and is the global footwear partner for Lacoste and Karen Millen. The Group 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.

Pentland has won the following Family Business awards:

• 2017 – IMD Global Family Business Award
• 2017 - EY Best Family Business in the UK
• 2014 - Campden Best European Family Business
• 2008 - IFB Best Family Business in UK

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

Andy 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.

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

John Ward is Clinical Professor of Family Enterprise and co-director of the Center for Family Enterprises at Kellogg School of Management.

He teaches and studies family continuity planning, leadership, ownership, governance and philanthropy.

He is the author or co-author of several leading books on family business and, over the years, has led courses at IMD, HKUST, WHU, ISB, IESE and other business schools.

Ward graduated from Northwestern University (B.A.) and Stanford Graduate School of Business (MBA and PhD). Currently he serves on four boards in North America, China, Europe and the Middle East.