Since 1989 has has been helping hundreds of businesses worldwide with their family business and board matters.
My Services
I support business-owning families to achieve their goals.
My Mission
Family Enterprises are the foundation of the global economy and society. Helping them achieve sustainability creates wealth, employment, growth, and welfare contributing to individual happiness. I am proud of dedicating my career to help families in business achieve their objectives.
Dr. Haluk ALACAKLIOGLU
About Dr. Alacaklioglu
Family Business Matters Consultant
Haluk graduated with “honors” from Harvard Business School and later earned his PhD (thesis in Corporate Governance and Family Business) at AUL, London. He started his career in multinational companies around the world (P&G and Philip Morris International), has worked as a manager in the USA, Europe and the Middle East. He opened offices in Eastern Europe and the Middle East as the Managing Partner of world’s preeminent leadership advisory firm (Egon Zehnder Int) and supported hundreds of companies in identifying and evaluating senior managers for over a decade.
In 2000 he founded the advisory firm Family Business Governance, LLP, which also owns and runs the Boston Family Business Academy™ a prime institute for educating and training members of family enterprises family businesses teaching them good governance practices. He also owns Board Advisor®, serving as independent board member as well as helping corporations to increase the effectiveness of their Boards.
Founder of management consultancy Family Business Governance, Dr. With Haluk Alacaklıoğlu-Obst, we re-initiated our governance studies by evaluating our work and family dynamics.
Prior to this study, we tried it out ourselves as a family and then with a renowned international professor from a leading US business school. Unfortunately, these efforts were not successful. Over the years, conflicts of interest and disagreements began to break our unity. In the end, we were unable to reach consensus or even a decision on the main issues. This started to do serious damage to our company and increasingly disturbed the peace in our family.
- Chairman Chairman of a major Middle Eastern industrial company with diverse businesses and companies worldwideWe carried out and successfully completed our work with the scope of “Good Governance” of our Family Company between 2019-2020
In this study, which lasted about 13 months, Dr. Alacaklioglu enabled us as all family members and shareholders to meet on a common platform, plan for our future; discuss and agree on the steps to take in our country and in the world regarding good family business governance, hence prepare our company for the future on stronger and solid foundations.
We express our gratitude and satisfaction for his advice, training and leadership during the entire process. We thank Dr. Haluk Alacaklioglu for his contributions.
- Chairman of the Board of Directors Aster Textile GroupAs 1st and 2nd generation members of our family, we worked with Dr. Haluk Alacaklıoğlu to create our family constitution.
In our work with Haluk Alacaklioglu, we established certain family institutions in order to maintain a healthy balance between the interests of our company and the expectations of the family in the future, and we planned the transfer process of our family company to 2nd generation members. In the meetings we held to put this process on a solid foundation, we both defined the relations of our family members with our company in detail and detailed the long-term plans of our company with the guidance of Mr. Haluk Alacaklioglu.
We have determined our policy on many corporate governance issues. We have recorded all our works as a “family constitution” with the intention of implementing and developing them in the future.
We are pleased with the work we have done with Haluk Alacaklioglu and recommend his consultancy to all families and companies that go through similar processes. We want to work further with him on corporate governance. We are grateful to Haluk Alacaklıoğlu for all his valuable contributions.
- M.A. – Chairman A major industrial production and trading company with sales in 60+ countries. 1 st and 2 nd generations