Embracing Change with Feisal Alibhai

In this episode, Carlos shares how succession played out for him in his family’s business, family business governance, and managing relationships with family shareholders.

About Carlos Gallardo: Carlos is the Vice-Chairman of the Board at Almirall S.A., a Spanish-based publicly traded pharmaceutical company. Almirall is a family business controlled by the Gallardo family group.

Carlos is also the founder and CEO of CG Health Ventures. CG Health Ventures builds digital health companies and invests in early stage digital health companies in the US and Europe. Prior to that, Carlos spent 12 years working in the pharmaceutical industry at Almirall (UK & Spain) and at Pfizer (USA).

Carlos holds an MS in Industrial Engineering from the UPC in Barcelona and a MBA from Stanford University.

In this episode, Peter and Feisal discuss the core pillars for multi-generational success.

About Peter Vogel:  Peter Vogel is Professor of Family Business and Entrepreneurship and holder of the Debiopharm Chair of Family Philanthropy, Director of IMD Global Family Business Center.  Peter works with family- & non-family enterprises on organizational regeneration through intrapreneurship, talent development & succession, strategy, governance, change management, and investment opportunities.

In this episode Feisal, Henry and Johnson will discuss family involvement and expectation of success as a next generation entrepreneur, balancing the competing priorities between new ventures and existing family business, whether it’s possible to be entrepreneurial as a next generation family member, and the challenges of being supported by the family business in new ventures that are not understood.

About Henry Chong: Henry Chong is the Chief Executive Officer of the Fusang Corp. Fusang’s mission is to enable stakeholder capitalism by operating Asia’s first Digital Stock Exchange. The goal is to allow us to live in a world where companies are aligned with their customers and their communities. Henry is also a Board Director for Portcullis, Asia’s biggest independent group of trust companies. Portcullis provides a one-stop shop for corporate, trustee and fund administration services to high-net-worth individuals, family offices, philanthropists, private banks and investment managers.

About Johnson Cheng: Johnson Cheng is the founder and partner at Voyager Capital, a private equity firm that focuses on growth stage and pre-IPO startups in AI and enterprise software. He is a member of the Advisory Board of FiscalNote, the Family Business Network (FBN) Asia, and Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO). He received his B.S. and MBA from Cornell University.

In this episode, Ramia and Feisal discuss what types of entitlement do we encounter in the family business, and how it can affect our relationship, health and wellbeing.

About Ramia Marielle El Agamy Khan: Ramia is part of the second generation of her family business and fulfils the roles of CEO of Orbis Terra Media, editor-in-chief of Tharawat Magazine, and host of the podcasts The Family Business Voice and Women in Family Business. She is dedicated in bringing the power of content and technology to individuals and businesses to unlock their growth.

In this episode, Fionn and Feisal discuss how to make sense of our VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) World and how to thrive in uncertainty.

About Fionn Wright: Fionn is the Wellbeing Head at Qineticare. Making it his daily mission to transform into the best husband, father and human being he can be to help as many people as he can live a life they love, Fionn now coaches entrepreneurs, executives and family business leaders around the world, sharing his vision to evolve our planetary consciousness and ensure a sustainable future for humanity through TV, live-streaming, vlogging, writing, consulting, podcasting & speaking. 

In this episode, Steve and Feisal discuss ways to understand family and organizational systems, how they operate, what goes wrong, and what are some of the ways that they can be worked with and transformed.

About Steve Vinay Gunther: Vinay has been involved with psychotherapy for over 45 years. He is the CEO of Gestalt Therapy International, and teaches professional therapy training in many countries around the world, especially China. His interests and study spans spirituality, systems and cybernetics, career development and organisational transformation.  He wrote a bestselling book of advice for men entitled ‘Understanding the Woman in your Life’.

In this episode, Michel shares how our ability to adapt determines the quality of our health and how the gut protects and feeds the body.

About Dr. Michel Golay: Dr. Golay is a gut and brain health expert. A chiropractor by training, followed by thirty years of research and clinical experience, Dr. Golay aims to respond to the dead ends of a medical system that remains obsessed with the mere prospect of disease.

In this episode, Feisal and Kathleen talk about the scale of emotions and how to master and calibrate different and changing emotions.

About Kathleen O’Hara: As the Mental & Emotional Wellbeing Head at Qineticare, Kathleen has over 30 years of experience as a psychotherapist helping families and individuals to transcend the most complex of life’s challenges.  

In this episode, Kathleen shares how to reduce tension among family members by understanding how to recognize triggers, defuse potential conflicts and stay from a distance.

About Kathleen O’Hara: Kathleen is the Mental and Emotional Wellbeing Head at Qineticare. She provides innovative strategic solutions for individuals, families and Family Offices facing the complex mental health and well-being challenges. She supports relational issues, couples counselling, co-parenting, anxiety, depression & substance dependency.

In this episode, Feisal and Dr. Habib Sadeghi show us why every physical manifestation of disease serves a larger purpose and allows us to discover how we can use crisis and change to grow into a greater version of ourselves.

About Dr. Habib Sadeghi: Dr. Sadeghi specializes in a multi-disciplinary approach to chronic illnesses, such as cancer and auto-immune disease, with comprehensive treatment protocols that incorporate a wide range of interventions. He is the Founder of the Be Hive of Healing Integrative Medical Center.