6th Generation CEO of Italian Family Business
At Fratelli Cosulich, founded in 1857, joining the family business is harder than getting hired. Tim Cosulich, the sixth generation, on why.
Tim Cosulich
Sixth generation, Fratelli Cosulich, Italian shipping group founded in 1857
On the show
The Business Family Diagnostic · Ownership
A second founding generation that gave the shares away.
Tim's father and cousins put the shares in a trust, with the whole family as beneficiaries. Have the rules for passing ownership to the next generation been agreed and written down in your family?
“Each adult owner knows what they own.”
Biography
Timothy Cosulich is the sixth generation CEO of Fratelli Cosulich, an Italian shipping group established in 1857.
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