Overview
Founded by Edouard Thijssen and Edward Janssen, Trusted Family is built for rising family businesses (Gen 2-3), generational family businesses (Gen 4+), and family offices. The platform offers features including collaboration spaces, document vaults, legacy management, events, security, and analytics to bridge the gap between family and business governance.
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- A critical flaw in PHP may have left millions of websites open to hackers for years. For the record, at Trusted Family we do not use PHP. But the flaw raises a question every family should be able to answer: who can actually read your family's documents? For many families, sensitive information is still scattered across emails, shared drives and messaging apps. Some even rely on self-hosted file portals built on PHP, the kind of tools this flaw put at risk. Access is rarely reviewed, and often nobody knows who can open what. On
- Our integration with Addepar is now live: reports produced in Addepar go straight into each shareholder's secure vault on Trusted Family. Thanks to this integration, ownership and governance now live under the same roof. Karel Tant, EMEA Head of GTM at Addepar, and Edouard Thijssen, co-founder of Trusted Family, presented the integration during the launch webinar. 📝 Karel has since shared four takeaways from that conversation, from engaging the next generation to what AI could bring to combined family data. ↳ Link in the first
- Our second Next Gen Education Series webinar, with Professor Cristina Cruz of IE University, takes place on October 27. A family office should do more than preserve and manage wealth. In this webinar, we explore the concept of the Entrepreneurial Family Office: a strategic platform that helps business families deploy their capital, capabilities and networks to create new opportunities across generations. Using Professor Cristina Cruz's research and practical experience, the session explores how families can combine professional
- What makes a family business handover work? Let's go back to Milan, where Carlo Salvato (Università Bocconi), joined us to share key insights on Italian family firms. In a third of the 1,944 transitions studied since 2010, the outgoing leader mentored the successor during a period of co-leadership before handing over full responsibility. In 2024, that share reached 44.4%. These transitions were associated with ROA up 8.5% over the following three years, compared with 4.2% across all generational transitions. In practice,
- This is our biggest launch yet! On October 22, we’re unveiling the Shareholder Register. With ownership now part of the platform, Trusted Family officially becomes familyOS: the true operating system for family enterprises. Our co-founder Edouard Thijssen and our CEO Edgar du Colombier will walk you through it live: ► How the Shareholder Register replaces spreadsheets and paper certificates with a single, auditable ownership record ► A live tour of the cap table and shareholder profiles for individuals, trusts, holding entities,
- It is one of the oldest questions in family business. At our client conference in Milan, Carlo Salvato (Università Bocconi) brought data to it, from 154 Italian family firms over €250M that went through a generational transition between 2007 and 2022. When the successor was more educated than the other potential candidates in the family, the gain in profitability after the transition was amplified, with ROA up 25.0% and ROE up 29.4%. When the successor was the first-born, the effect went the other way, with ROA down 16.6% and ROE
- Family & Business Forum 2026 : Trusted Family prend la route ! Trusted Family est fier d'être partenaire de la 6ᵉ édition du #FamilyandBusinessForum, organisé par La Tribune BFM Business avec le soutien de Family & Co et du FBN France. Cette année, le forum s'arrête dans quatre villes pour aller à la rencontre des entreprises familiales au plus près de leurs territoires. Thomas Avella Shaw, de l'équipe Trusted Family, ira d'une ville à l'autre et sera présent en personne à chacune des quatre étapes. 🇫🇷 Les étapes :
- Is your family governance playing offense, or defense? Most governance gets built to defend: rules and structures meant to manage risk and avoid conflict. Professor Matt Allen ( Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management ) opens our new webinar series by asking what governance could do if it were built on offense instead, around what a family actually wants to achieve. That's the first of four sessions we're launching this fall and winter, with faculty from Kellogg, IE University, Babson College, and MIT Sloan. 📅 Sep 30
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