Affiliations

John Warnick

John is the founder of the Purposeful Planning Collaboration, a virtual community of some of the world’s leading wealth psychologists, family governance experts, family business advisors, estate planning attorneys, and many other disciplines and professions which serve families of wealth and families in business. The Purposeful Planning Collaboration sponsors weekly interviews with thought leaders and innovators who are expanding best practices that allow families to flourish. John also developed the Seven Keys of Purposeful Trusts and Six Paradigms of Purposeful Planning, a group of concepts that can ensure that the impact of a family’s wealth will be a positive force in the lives of rising generations. John founded the Purposeful Planning Collaboration after practicing for thirty years as a tax and legal advisor to wealthy families at a large law firm, where he chaired the Private Client Services Group.

John spends a considerable amount of his time facilitating family retreats and providing wealth counseling, fiduciary and philanthropic consulting services. He is especially focused on educating and training children, adolescents and emerging adults in financial literacy, philanthropic service, and holistic family wealth principles. In 2010, John was certified as a facilitator for the Family Business Assessment Tool and the Family Wealth Dynamics Assessment Tool, both of which were developed by Dr. Dean Fowler in collaboration with Marquette University. These tools are used to objectively measure how effectively a family is performing in twelve critical areas of success in the transitioning of a family business or family wealth.

John is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. He has served as the philanthropic editor of the Journal of Practical Estate Planning, a CCH publication, and serves on the board of directors of the International Association of Advisors in Philanthropy. John was the author of two BNA (Bureau of National Affairs) Tax Management portfolios. He has also co-authored “Selecting a Trust Situs in the 21st Century” as well as numerous professional journal and law review articles. John received a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, from Brigham Young University and his Juris Doctor with honors from George Washington University.

Scott R. Peppet

Scott R. Peppet is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado School of Law in Boulder, Colorado, where he teaches negotiation, conflict resolution, contracts, and ethics.

Before moving to Colorado, Scott was a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School and a Senior Fellow on Negotiation at the Harvard Negotiation Research Project. At Harvard, Scott taught the Negotiation Workshop for several years and co-taught a new course titled Arbitration, Mediation, and Dispute Systems Design. He was also a faculty member for Harvard’s Program of Instruction for Lawyers.

In addition to his academic work, Mr. Peppet has an active negotiation training and consulting practice. He has worked with such companies as Goldman Sachs, Manulife, Lexmark, IBM, MasterCard, Monsanto, Xilinx, LL Bean, Conoco, BP, the CIBC, Bank of Montreal, and Genentech to help them improve their negotiation results and manage their strategic relationships more effectively. His practice also includes organizational interventions in situations of team or executive-level crisis, where he provides negotiation and communication coaching and advice.

Mr. Peppet is the author of several articles on legal ethics and dispute resolution ethics. He is the co-author of an award-winning book on negotiation titled Beyond Winning: Negotiating to Create Value in Deals and Disputes (Harvard University Press, 2000) and of a textbook titled Processes of Dispute Resolution: The Role of Lawyers (Foundation Press, 3d edition, 2002). He serves on the Supreme Court of Colorado’s Standing Committee on the Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct, and was the Director of the Leeds School of Business First Annual Japha Symposium on Business and Professional Ethics.

Mr. Peppet did his undergraduate studies in International Conflict Resolution at Cornell, and received his law degree from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and the co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of the Harvard Negotiation Law Review.

Kathryn McCarthy

Kathryn McCarthy has over 20 years experience in advising wealthy families and managing family offices and other entities; she is currently a Consultant to Families and Family Offices. She is also a Director of the Rockefeller Trust Company and serves on its Audit and Trust Committees. Kathryn serves on several private Family Investment Committees, is on the Board of Directors of a Family Office and acts as a strategic advisor and/or Trustee to several family groups. Additionally, she is a member of the Board of Directors of SEI Investments, a public company (NASDAQ) whose business is investment technology and asset management and serves on the Audit and Compensation Committees.

In previous roles, Kathryn was a Managing Director of Rockefeller & Co., Inc. as well as a member of the Management Committee and the Director of Client Advisory Services. She was the founding President of Marujupu, LLC – the family office of the Sulzberger Family (The New York Times Company) – and started their multigenerational family office. She was also a member of the Board of Directors and the Investment Committee of Marajupu and was the Manager of the Sulzberger Foundation. Kathryn also worked as the Senior Financial Counselor at Rockefeller & Co., Inc. In that position, she advised Rockefeller family members and other families on asset allocation, investment manager selection, personal financial planning and strategic wealth management.

Kathryn holds a B.A. from Rosemont College and earned her M.B.A. in finance from New York University’s Graduate School of Business Administration. She completed her education at New York Law School, where she received her J.D. with honors. Kathryn’s not for profit activities include serving as a Trustee of the Greenacre Foundation and as a member of the Professional Advisors Council of Lincoln Center. She is on the Editorial Advisory Board, HNW Families and Family Office Committee of Trusts & Estates. Kathryn is a frequent lecturer on topics relating to Family Education and the Management and Governance of Family Offices.

Ricardo Leonardos

Ricardo Leonardos has over thirty years of professional experience in finance, investments and corporate governance. He is the founder and managing director of Symphony Consultoria e Participações, a family business consulting firm based in Brazil, with expertise in governance, succession, wealth planning, and family offices. On a recent assignment Ricardo served for four years as CEO of the family office he structured for a prominent Brazilian family.

For more than a decade Ricardo was a partner of Brasilpar, a corporate finance and investment firm in Brazil. As a venture capitalist, he was involved in financing and helping entrepreneurs to structure and to develop their businesses. He assisted shareholders and executives in defining and implementing strategies, managerial standards and corporate governance structures. As a financial consultant, Ricardo assisted companies going public by working on the side of the shareholders to evaluate the best alternatives and prepare them for the after market. Ricardo was the leading partner in the creation of the first independent asset management company to operate in Brazil.

Ricardo was also CEO of Sul America Investimentos, the asset management arm of Brazil’s largest insurance company. He was also CEO of ING Investment Management, where he was responsible for launching the investment operations of the Dutch group in Brazil. His activities focused on the design and management of investment portfolios for family offices, wealthy individuals and institutional clients. He also served as CFO for Tivit, an IT outsourcing company of the Votorantim Group.

Ricardo received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Faculdade de Economia São Luis and his MBA in Finance and International Business from NYU – Leonard Stern School of Business. He currently serves on the board of directors of Tecnisa S.A. (a construction company listed on the São Paulo Stock Exchange), Hospital Samaritano – São Paulo, and on the advisory board of Peninsula family office. Ricardo is a certificate holder in family business advising from the Family Firm Institute; a certified Board Member by the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance; CFA (CNPI) certified by APIMEC – Associação dos Analistas e Profissionais de Investimento do Mercado de Capitais; and a Registered Portfolio Manager with the CVM – Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (Brazilian SEC).