Former Savekers chief executive to head up ICFIB
Dani Saveker has been appointed as the chief executive for the International Centre for Families in Business (ICFIB).
Saveker placed her family's 106-year-old Birmingham-based company, Savekers, in administration in 2009 following the impact of the recession.
She joins the ICFIB, which was founded by John Tucker in 2005, in February.
The Bristol-based organisation currently provides education, consultancy and research to family businesses and their professional advisers.
A new peer group membership scheme to help "support, coach and challenge" current leaders and the next generation of management in family businesses is set to be launched this year.
Saveker said: "I know as a fourth generation member of my family's business that I would have really benefited from being part of a peer group – not only to challenge me and my thinking but also to know that I wasn't the only one going through issues that can so often affect family businesses.
"I think being with your peers is essential when you work with family, it's not like you can just go home and talk about what happened at work.
"I'm really excited about the opportunity ahead as chief executive of ICFIB and it's almost as if this was what I was always supposed to do. Stepping out of Savekers was a very emotional and traumatic time but with what lies ahead I'm looking to using my experience to help other family businesses."
