Family Business Resource Center

Family Business Spotlight: Spartan Light Metal Products Celebrates 60 Years as a Global Leader in Light Metal Technologies

Getting Noticed in a Crowded Space

In order to thrive in this highly-competitive environment, new and existing business owners need to find ways to be creative, authentic, and engaging.

Webinar: Family Office to Family Enterprise - Strategies for Sustaining Your Wealth & Family Legacy

Join Tom Crotty, Practice Leader of Sensiba San Filippo, a leading San Francisco Bay Area accounting and business consulting firm, as he unpacks the questions surrounding the family office, if your family needs a family office, how to choose a family office, if your Chief Financial Officer (CFO) should run your family office, and more.

Establishing a Healthy Board in a Family-Owned Business

A board of directors is the fiduciary arm of a company on behalf of its shareholders. Its purpose is to help guide the company on important decisions, including hiring senior team members and setting salaries; making decisions on investments and dividends, mergers and acquisitions; and setting goals for the team and providing the resources to support those objectives to help ensure a company’s long-term success.

Ed Hart and Michael Dierberg Discuss First Bank's Past, Present, and Future

On this episode of Ed Hart's From the Hart Podcast, join Ed Hart (Director of First Bank’s Center for Family-Owned Businesses) and Michael Dierberg (Chairman of FB Corporation and First Bank) as they discuss First Bank’s longstanding history as a fourth-generation family business. Watch and listen as they dive deep into Michael Dierberg’s role, the exciting future of our 112-year-old business, and much more!

Webinar: Ready to Buy? Should You Invest As a Family in Other Businesses?

Your family business has capital to invest and talented family members, so how do you take advantage of this for your family’s benefit? Join Joe Ambrose, Executive Director of the First Bank Center for Family-Owned Businesses, as he moderates our panel discussion of making the most of adding businesses to your family’s portfolio of investments.