SYRACUSE — The New York Family Business Center will hold its spring conference on May 25, offering family business owners and managers insight on key topics such as business and estate planning, conflict management, and more.
The event runs from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Le Moyne College’s Grewen Auditorium.
The scheduled speakers include Marion Hancock Fish, a partner with Syracuse–based law firm Hancock Estabrook, LLP. Fish’s presentation, titled “Business Planning, One Way or Another,” will cover a case approach for estate planning and passing on business assets.
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Jesan Sorrells, principal conflict engagement consultant at Endicott–based Human Services Consulting and Training, is set to give a talk, called “Dealing with Common Disputes in Family Owned Businesses.” Sorrels is also an adjunct professor at Le Moyne College and Binghamton University.
George Hanford, CEO of Hanford Pharmaceuticals of Syracuse, is set to discuss the evolution of the 170-year-old, privately held family business and share its legacy story.
For more information on the spring conference or to register, visit: https://www.newyorkfamilybusinesscenter.com/events.
The New York Family Business Center is based at Le Moyne’s Madden School of Business.