PhD FCA(R) CPA(R)

Andy Kane OBE

Advising family business owners how to manage family dynamics along with family assets, often takes a two-pronged approach of hard side expertise provided by professionals ( e.g investing, financial, and tax planning) and the soft side competencies I provide, such as coaching, consulting ,mentoring, and mediating.

Dysfunctional family dynamics create painful emotions, grief, and many unspoken words. I provide a calm experienced voice to the family dynamic issues I address that impact a family business and wealth. These can include relationship issues around siblings, parent /adult children, partner to partner, or executive to executive especially when focused on issues such as succession, control, governance, inheritance or just staying focused on resolving key challenges.

I have over 40 years of experience working with families around the globe as a mentor, coach, mediator, advisor, and board member.

 
 
 
 
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World-renowned Mediator, advisor & director.

About Andy

 

Andy is globally sought out as a trusted advisor, mediator, 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 four decades of experience of personally owning a family business, managing family offices, advising families who have family offices/ family businesses as well as personally managing small to very large teams and businesses.

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 with Arthur Andersen, then gathered years of experience as a private banker as CEO of HSBC Private Bank in Southern California, as a board director of East-West Bank and as the senior executive/adviser at several substantial single-family offices for well over a decade

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

He has Masters and Doctoral degrees in Human Development and Professional Coaching from the International University of Professional Studies, with an undergraduate degree in economics from the London School of Economics.

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

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, business disputes and
    facilitating trust through communication

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

“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