Philosophy
Our expertise
for your success
The members of our network have in-depth know-how thanks to decades of professional experience: they know and understand their industry and the dynamics of the market from the perspective of a family business. The know how to build a CFO-organization state of the art.
This expertise is complemented by a look ahead: we combine the experiences of the past with the developments of the future and therefore work closely with leading academic institutions.
The cooperation with universities gives us access to the latest, practically relevant findings and thus a contemporary view of new developments. It also helps these institutions to remain relevant and helpful in their research and teaching, which benefits all.
In this way, FBXperts can give the relevant possible recommendations and help to identify development opportunities and exploit potential in your company, so our experience is much more comprehensive that pure finance issues.
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Focus on family businesses
As CFOs, our experts know the diverse structures, special features and associated challenges of family businesses.
The motivation of our experts to get involved in FBXperts is based on the desire to share their knowledge with other managers in family businesses. We have been working for our target group for years and know all facets of their concerns and characteristics.
In their own companies, our experts have proven themselves as formative characters over many years - often they see themselves as the commercial conscience of the company. Thanks to their balanced and long-term problem-solving ability across all specialist areas, they are now valued advisors and top-managers.
The basic idea of FBXperts is to exchange experiences, and this is how our journey began, albeit in a very different form than today: In 2004, I, Patricio Ohle, sought out a conversation with Klaus Köster, Managing Director at Intersnack (Pfeifer & Langen Group, family-owned company) and formerly my supervisor. The two of us met in a confidential atmosphere at Zurich airport. At the time, a personal and confidential conversation was the only way I knew of to exchange knowledge from CFO to CFO.
"Anyone can produce - selling is divine," Klaus Köster quoted his colleague Dr Peter-Nils Evers. "But you can't produce without finance," he continued jokingly, adding: "Someone has to carry the flag of financial leadership in the family business."
From the attitude of breaking down the silos in the company in both thinking and action, an increasingly intensive dialogue arose within the framework of our network in St. Gallen, which was to bring practice and theory on financial management even closer together. Five system breakthroughs were defined (cf. chart 2.1 in our book) and systematically studied and elaborated in practice and theory. The understanding of financial leadership on which FBX is based therefore includes the important management aspect of the finance function in addition to the core topics of the CFO.
I still have the discussion with Klaus Köster on the role of finance in the family business today - as well as with many other mentors and colleagues.
This book is inspired by these discussions.
This is the story of how FBXperts came into being - and motivates us to this day to tread the path of transparency and to seek fellow campaigners at university and in practice to carry the flag of financial leadership.
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Knowledge transfer from the CFO network
Over 50 experts in DACH have been working as CFOs in internationally active family businesses for an average of 15 years each. We continuously complete the expertise internationally and across industries. For this we have developed our FBX knowledge platform that is exclusively accessible by our CFO experts (see expert login on our homepage).
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Customized Matching
With the help of our algorithm and experience of our expert council, we will put you in contact with the right expert with long standing experience suited to your needs.
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Partnership with leading Universities
Our Dialog with Universities brings current, practice-relevant research aspects to them and learning into the network and thus contributes significantly to the future viability of knowledge transfer. Both sides benefit form that as do our family firms in Europe. We also support these universities and their research.
Focus on familybusinesses
Knowledge transfer from the CFO network
Customized Matching
