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Patricia Angus & Daniel Wolfenzon

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Patricia Angus, Faculty Director Adjunct Professor of Business Managing Director, Family Business Program 

Patricia Angus, JD, MIA, TEP, is the founder and CEO of Angus Advisory Group LLC, an adjunct professor at Columbia University, and the director of the Family Business Program. A recognized thought leader in multi-generational family governance and wealth, she has advised families with businesses, trusts, and charitable foundations for more than two decades. Angus helps clients navigate some of life's most complex issues, through critical analysis, strategic planning, and compassionate guidance. She practiced law at trusts and estates boutique Hughes and Whitaker (now Day Pitney) and Coudert Brothers international law firm (now Baker & McKenzie). She served as principal and chief wealth advisory officer at Shelterwood Financial Services LLC and as family wealth advisor at GenSpring and JP Morgan Private Bank. She is member of the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners, Family Firm Institute (FFI), and Collaboration for Family Flourishing. She is a CFBA (Certified Family Business Advisor). Angus serves on advisory boards of Trusts and Estates magazine, the Carter Center, and the NYC Family Enterprise Center. She is on the Editorial Committee of the FFI Practitioner. She has received numerous awards for her thought leadership in the fields of family business, trusts, wealth, philanthropy, and family governance. 

Daniel Wolfenzon Stefan H. Robock Professor of Finance and Economics Co-Director, Family Business Program 

Daniel Wolfenzon received a Masters and a PhD in economics from Harvard University and holds a BS in economics and a BS in mechanical engineering from MIT. Professor Wolfenzon previously taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago, and NYU. He is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research interests are in corporate finance and organizational economics. He has studied control sharing in small firms, the effects of investor protection on ownership concentration, and the structure of business groups around the world. Professor Wolfenzon's most recent research focuses on family firms. He has examined the consequences of family succession on firm performance and also the importance of managerial talent in family controlled firms. His work has been published in top economic and finance journals such as The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Review of Economic Studies, The Journal of Finance, and the Journal of Financial Economics. He received the Jensen Prize (second place) for best paper on corporate finance and organizations published in the Journal of Financial Economics both in 2002 and 2005.

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