About Us

For over 30 years, family business leaders and owners have relied on Family Business to improve their family dynamics and their businesses.

Family Business is published by MLR Media. Through digital platforms, magazines, and events, MLR Media provides public and private company directors, leaders and owners of multigenerational family businesses and C-suite executives with the knowledge and skills to be successful in their roles.

Team

  • PETER BEGALLA
    CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN
  • SCOTT CHASE
    NATIONAL ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE
  • JUSTIN CORDARO
    NATIONAL ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE
  • AMY C. COSPER
    EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
  • JILLIAN KITTLE
    CONFERENCE COORDINATOR
  • RYAN ELLIS
    NATIONAL ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE
  • DIANE MCCOLLUM
    EVENTS DIRECTOR
  • MONICA MCLAUGHLIN
    CREATIVE DIRECTOR
  • CARO ROCK
    PUBLISHER
  • DEBBIE DAVIS
    MARKETING DIRECTOR
  • DAVID SHAW
    PUBLISHING DIRECTOR
  • JERRI SMITH-BALDWIN
    CIRCULATION & ACCOUNTING COORDINATOR
  • BARBARA SPECTOR
    EDITOR-AT-LARGE
  • BARBARA WENGER
    DIRECTORY, SUBSCRIPTIONS & REPRINTS COORDINATOR

MLR Holdings

  • ALLA KORSUN
    EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
  • BILL ROCK
    PRESIDENT & CEO
  • BOB ROCK
    CHAIRMAN

Editorial Advisory Board

Ross J. Born

Retired Co-CEO, Just Born Quality Confections

Philip A. Clemens

Retired Chairman, The Clemens Family Corporation

Drew Everett

Chairman, Bush Brothers & Company

Howdy Holmes

President and CEO, Chelsea Milling Company

Meghan Juday

Chairman of the Board, IDEAL Industries Inc.

Anne Eiting Klamar, M.D.

Chair of the Board, Midmark Corporation

Charlotte Lamp, Ph.D.

Shareholder, Port Blakely

Jack Ouellette

Executive Chairman, American Textile Company Inc.

Allison Parks

Former Family President, Laird Norton Company

Katy Wilder Schaaf, Ph.D.

Family Council Chair, E. Ritter & Company

Heidi Vermeer-Quist, Psy.D.

Shareholder, Vermeer Corporation

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