Andy Kane OBE PhD FCA(r) CPA(r)

My focus is working alongside clients who must address their family and business challenges.

I take a two-pronged approach, combining my hard-side experience (e.g., financial, business, management, and treasury skills ) with my soft-side competencies in coaching, advising, mentoring, mediating, and directorships.

Dysfunctional relationships can impact family dynamics or a business, creating painful emotions, grief, and many unspoken words, in addition to disrupting an industry and impairing the health of those involved.

Built upon 50 years of guiding clients, I provide a calm, experienced voice as I address issues like protecting one’s well-being, wealth, or legacy that swirl around core issues.

Often, I observe that my clients are asking themselves questions: how can I be defined by who I am, not what I do, or how can I enforce barriers to avoid the emotional pain from dysfunctional family members?

These core introspective questions often include poor relationship issues around siblings, parents/adult children, partners, or executives.

 
 
 
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About Andy

World-renowned advisor & mediator and director.

Andy is sought out as a trusted advisor, mentor, mediator, coach, and director. He has worked extensively with clients who are business owners, mediated hundreds of problems/disputes to resolution and served on over 25 boards as a trusted advisor or director.

He has five decades of experience owning a family business, managing family offices, and guiding many struggling with midlife. In addition, he has led and managed multiple teams and businesses and has been an active director on over 30 public and private boards.

Qualified but now retired from practice as a Chartered Accountant in the UK (FCA-R) and a Certified Public Accountant (CPA-R) in the USA, he practiced for almost three decades as a Managing Partner with Arthur Andersen. He then spent over a decade as a managing director-CEO of HSBC Private Bank in Southern California and as a board director of East-West Bank. Since 2010, he has continued to manage and advise single-family offices.

Dr. Kane is Chairman of ASK4 Inc., which, since 1989, has been engaged in his own family business/office and provides services to his clients.

As a citizen of both the USA and the UK, he has been involved in furthering US/UK trade businesses and academic interests. For this, he was awarded the Office of the British Empire by Her Majesty the Queen and invested with this Order by King Charles III at Buckingham Palace.

Andy is certified as a civil/commercial disputes mediator by The State Bar of California and The Florida Bar.

He has Master's and Doctoral degrees in Human Development and Professional Coaching from the International University of Professional Studies and an Economics degree from the London School of Economics.

His qualifications, academic studies, body of work as an author, and business and life experiences have all amplified how Andy applies his knowledge to deliver value in guiding clients.

He has written and spoken widely on:

  • The Family Office - How to develop, organize, and operate efficiently

  • Family Business Governance- Family board advisory services to integrate the family, achieve effective communications and role development for the business, family, and philanthropic pursuits

  • Family Business Education-Developing younger adults in the skills, traits, and tools to assume greater responsibilities in the  family business and within the family culture

  • Family Business Mediation- Resolving relationship conflicts and business disputes and facilitating trust through communication.

  • Family Business challenges - Consulting focused on problem-solving and decision-making regarding financial, business, and people problems and disputes.

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Three Bridges: Adulthood is Easy Until Life Intervenes

Andy has authored several books. However, this one is specifically about navigating adulthood, enhancing your well-being, and addressing your life, especially midlife, which was the focus of his doctoral dissertation. This book guides you through the unpredictable, inevitable setbacks of life faced by all of us, both individually, within a family, or in a business, and the subject matter is illustrated with the help of his three metaphorical bridges spanning the course of a human lifetime.

“After facing several career challenges in midlife, I wish “Three Bridges” had been written earlier as it would have provided me invaluable guidance and input to meet those challenges with more confidence.”
— Jeremy Davies, OBE, former Managing Partner,PriceWaterHouseCoopers
 
 
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