From Capital to Catalyst: Unlocking Family Capital for Systems Transformation
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What if family capital—free from short-term pressure—became the missing catalyst for systems transformation, aligning patience, purpose, and partnership to regenerate markets, communities, and ecosystems across generations?
Family offices and family businesses have a unique advantage: the ability to deploy long-term, risk-tolerant capital in ways that catalyse broader ecosystem change. In this session speakers will explore how family capital can be activated to unlock transformative impact across sectors, geographies, and systems.
Drawing on their diverse experience leading strategic capital deployment and innovation in family enterprises, as well as working with families on aligning capital with long-term impact, panelists will examine how families can play a catalytic role by bringing together partners and capital pools around outcomes that regenerate markets, communities, and ecosystems.
10:30 to 11:15 am | Panel 1: From Capital to Catalyst: Unlocking Family Capital for Systems Transformation
Family offices and family businesses have a unique advantage: the ability to deploy long-term, risk-tolerant capital in ways that catalyse broader ecosystem change. In this session, Nike Anani, Pauline Borg, and Khaled Sharbatly explore how family capital can be activated to unlock transformative impact across sectors, geographies, and systems. Drawing on their diverse experience from advising families on aligning capital with long-term impact, leading strategic capital deployment and innovation in family enterprise contexts, panelists will examine how families can play a catalytic role by bringing together partners and capital pools around outcomes that regenerate markets, communities, and ecosystems.
11:15am – 12:00 pm | Panel 2: Regenerative Leadership in Family Business: Lessons from Andrea Illy
In this fireside chat, FBN’s CEO Alexis du Roy de Blicquy, sits down with Andrea Illy, Chairman of illycaffè and Co-Founder & Co-Chair of the Regenerative Society Foundation (RSF), to explore how family businesses can pioneer regenerative approaches that go beyond sustainability to actively restore natural and social systems. Drawing on his work at RSF and illycaffè’s long-standing commitment to quality, regenerative agriculture, and long-term value creation, the conversation will reflect on what it takes for family enterprises to embed regeneration at the core of their business models, and why family ownership is uniquely positioned to lead this shift for future generations.