Spanish family business consultant impressed by Sri Lanka
Family business consultant, Jose Manuel Zugaza and his wife
celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary with their three children in
Sri Lanka recently.
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Jose Manuel Zugaza and family in Polonnaruwa |
Zugaza, a former Executive President of Banco de Madrid of Spain, is
the Managing Partner of UNILCO, a consultancy for family companies. The
Zugaza family visited the Cultural Triangle on a tour organized by
Aitken Spence Travels through its partner, a high-end tour operator in
Spain.
He is an expert on generational transition processes, and a
specialist mediator in conflict resolution in family business. He is the
author of several publications on strategies for family business and
wrote the book Las Equivocaciones Que Nos Hicieron Triunfar ('The
mistakes which made us succeed').
Zugaza and his wife Carlota Escribano, a Director of Institutional
Relations at the Development Bank of Latin America, described their
visits to the UNESCO World Heritage sites, the Sigiriya Rock Fortress
and the Dambulla Cave Temple as 'epic'. They also took part in a biking
tour through the ruins of Polonnaruwa, another UNESCO World Heritage
site.
Zugaza is also the President of the Asociación Española de Consejeros
de Empresas Familiares, Member of Family Business Network (FBN) of
Lausanne (Suiza), Member of Family Firm Institute (FFI), USA and
external adviser for Executive Family Boards in Europe and Latin América.
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