As managing principal of The Family Business Consulting Group, Drew specializes in assessing the needs of enterprising families having completed thousands of intake assessments since the firm’s founding in 1994 and hundreds more before that as the founding director of a leading university based research and learning center for family businesses. His assessment skills provide a unique springboard to the success of the firm’s engagements. In addition to helping families define their challenges, he also listens for clues about their culture and value system to be sure the solutions provided are a proper fit to the culture, values and their family mission and vision. As the company’s chief executive, he oversees strategy as well as the platform which supports the firm’s clients and consultants. He is co-author of Siblings and the Family Business, has appeared on PBS, CNN, CNBC and National Public Radio’s Marketplace and has been quoted in the Philadelphia Enquirer, New York Newsday, Chicago Tribune and multiple internet media outlets. His work has been published in Family Business Magazine, Family Business Review, Family Business Advisor and Trusts and Estates Magazine. He has lectured and delivered workshops internationally to universities, YPO, trade associations and professional service organizations. Drew also provided expert testimony to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee on the impact of estate and gift taxes on family firms. In 2017, Drew received the prestigious Richard Beckhard Practice Award by the Family Firm Institute for his outstanding contributions to the field of family business practice. He also is a former member of the Family Firm Institute board of directors and past associate editor of the Family Business Review. He served on the trusts and estates advisory board committee of Trusts and Estates Magazine. Before joining FBCG at its launch in 1994, he was the founding director of the Loyola University Chicago Family Business Center. Drew resides in Chicago with his wife, Eloise, and their two children.