Andy Kane OBE

PhD FCA(r) CPA(r)

I advise family offices how to manage their relationship dynamics. This takes a two-pronged approach of my hard side experience (e.g financial, tax ,and business considerations ) with my soft side competencies of coaching, advising , mentoring, and mediating.

Dysfunctional relations impacts family dynamics and can create painful emotions, grief, and many unspoken words.

I provide a calm experienced voice as I address that impact a family business . legacy 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, strategy ,control, governance, inheritance and it includes staying focused on resolving key challenges.

I have approaching 50 years of experience working with families around the globe as a mentor, coach, mediator, advisor, and board member.

 
 
 
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About Andy

World-renowned advisor & mediator and director.

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 and an economics undergraduate degree from the London School of Economics.

His qualifications, academic studies, his body of work as an author, and 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 regarding financial, business, and people problems and disputes.

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Three Bridges: Adulthood is Easy Until Life Intervenes

Andy has authored several books. However, this one is specifically about navigating adulthood, enhancing your well-being, and addressing your life, especially midlife, which was the focus of his doctoral dissertation. This book guides you through the unpredictable, inevitable setbacks of life faced by all of us, both individually, within a family, or in a business, and the subject matter is illustrated with the help of his three metaphorical bridges spanning the course of a human lifetime.

“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
 
 
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