
The Warren Group
Trusted Real Estate & Financial Information Since 1872
The Warren Group also produces and organizes trade shows and events for a variety of industries, including bankers, mortgage brokers, credit unions and lawyers. Based in Boston, the company was established in 1872 and is now in its fourth generation of family ownership and management.

Michael Louie
D&H
Since joining D&H Group LLP in 1990 Michael has worked with families and their businesses on facilitating succession, income tax planning and mergers and acquisitions.
Michael is a Family Enterprise Advisor and has broad knowledge and experience in private enterprise tax and accounting, and specializes in real estate, technology and manufacturing/distribution businesses.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS/ORGANIZATIONS
-IFEA – Family Enterprise Advisor
-Trust and Estate Practitioner
-Member, Canadian Tax Foundation

Daffnee Cohen
Social Forza
She currently writes for The Huffington Post and MindBodyGreen and has been published in The Orlando Sentinel, Elephant Journal and Xerox Business Blog. Daffnee has spent time speaking, being on panels and working with the entrepreneurship and sociology departments/programs at Stetson since graduating. She has had multiple interns from Stetson and currently employs a recent graduate.

Amy Katz
Daughters In Charge
Amy is also a Senior Executive Coach and co-owner of an executive coaching firm, Baker & Daboll, LLC, and has over 30 years of coaching executives and professionals in a wide range of settings.

Renée Montoya Lado, M.S., N.C.C.
President
Renée has advanced degrees in Behavioral Psychology, Policy Analysis and Pastoral Psychotherapy and is certified in the use of numerous assessments and instruments including the Caliper Profile™, HR Chally Instrument™, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator™, the Center for Creative Leadership’s Benchmarks™ Instrument and Corporate Development Group’s Culturetek™.
When Renée is not traveling around the country meeting with clients she really enjoys following Denver's local sports teams especially: the Colorado Rapids, the Denver Broncos and the Colorado Rockies. Renée, and her husband, Frank also enjoy making time for their dogs, Abby, a beautiful rescue poodle, and Lucius who is an amazing Whoodle puppy that keeps all three of them on their toes!

Natalie McVeigh
Vice President, Family Dynamics Consultant, Wells Fargo Private Bank
The Family Dynamics team helps families sustain their wealth across generations by facilitating decision-making about the complex issues that arise as a result of substantial wealth. The team of Family Dynamics Consultants works with families to navigate issues at the intersection of family culture, leadership development, and ownership. In addition, the team supports the Family Dynamics Resource Center, a multi-media library that promotes generational education through the use of Family Workshops and the Family Dynamics Knowledge Lab.
Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Ms. McVeigh was a partner in her own enterprise consulting and coaching practice. She is a Faculty Member of the Family Firm Institute and a seasoned university instructor who has designed curriculum. She is a certificate holder in Advanced Family Advising and Family Wealth Advising. Over the years, she has earned additional certifications in a number of personality and preference assessments that help her clients build their communication repertoire as well as implement succession planning and other strategies to strengthen their family platform. Ms. McVeigh has published articles, presented to international audiences, and conducted trainings for families and advisors on family dynamics.
Ms. McVeigh earned her Bachelors of Arts degree in Law and Society as well as Philosophy at Hood College, and a Master of Science in Business Ethics and Compliance at the New England College of Business and Finance. She resides in the Greater Boston area.

Meghan Juday
Family Business Strategy Group
As the founder and principal of Family Business Strategy Group (FBSG), Meghan has developed a process for helping families define their vision, values and strategies to ensure continued stewardship of the family enterprise. FBSG constructs a framework, which is adapted for each family, that is used to build a family governance that supports strong stewardship of the business, leadership development, smooth transitions from one generation to the next and clear policies and processes that supports the family’s ability to act, not only as stewards of the business, but as stewards of family relationships. Meghan was one of the first graduates of the Family Business Stewardship Institute at the LFBC. She also sits on the Finance Committee at the Germantown Cricket Club, a non-profit organization. Meghan has a BA from St. John’s College in Santa Fe, NM where she graduated in 1994 with a concentration in Mathematics and Philosophy.

Richard M. Segal
Segal Consulting, Inc.
Upon graduation from the University of Michigan he joined his family’s mechanical contracting firm where he spent almost 20 years. In addition, Rick became a Plumbing & HVAC industry leader as President of the Trade Association and Chair of the Plumbing & Heating Industry Fund of Metropolitan Detroit.

Tharawat Magazine
Tharawat Magazine is comprised of two platforms: Tharawat Magazine Print, and the Tharawat Magazine Website. The Tharawat Magazine Print edition is our physical publication, and as the leading publication for family-owned businesses, it focuses almost exclusively on family business topics and issues. The Tharawat Magzine Website goes beyond the constraints of a physical magazine by expanding our topics and articles, all of which benefit you, the business owner.

Ira Bryck
Family Business Center of Pioneer Valley

Paul Karofsky
Transition Consulting Group
Having sold his business in 1988, Paul returned to graduate school and received his Ed.M. from Harvard University in 1990, concentrating his studies on communication and interpersonal relationships – with special interest in the psychosocial life of families and intergenerational communication. In 1995, he was one of only a few non-lawyers to be trained at Harvard Law School’s Program of Instruction for Lawyers Mediation Workshop.
Paul served on the Governor’s Entrepreneurial Advisory Committee and the partnership sub-committee for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Education. He is a trustee for life of HebrewSeniorLife and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Institute of New England. Paul is a member of YPO where he was named an outstanding faculty resource. He is a Founding Fellow of the Business Families Foundation of Montreal. Paul is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the Family Firm Institute, where he holds a certificate in Family Business Advising with Fellow Status and is a member of the Global Education Network faculty. In 1998, he received the Institute’s Barbara Hollander Award for outstanding contributions to the field of family business practice. In 2007 and 2008, he was recognized by Northeastern University and the New England Chapter of the Family Firm Institute when a Family Business of the Year award was presented in his honor.
Married for fifty-one years, the father of two, and grandfather of four, Paul is Executive Director Emeritus of Northeastern University’s Center for Family Business, which he was instrumental in launching. He facilitated its Leadership Development Forum which was endowed and named in his honor. He is a past columnist for Family Office Review and BusinessWeek Online and former case study editor of Nation’s Business and Families in Business. He has been interview editor of Family Business Review, and a peer reviewer for Harvard University Press. Paul is co-author with his son, David, of So You’re in the Family Business: A Guide to Sustainability.