Family Business
Port Blakely CEO to keynote Family Business Awards
By Seattle Business Magazine October 5, 2011
At one time or another, every family business must take on
the difficult challenge of finding a next-generation family member to take over its operations. Seattle
Business magazine is pleased to announce that the keynote speaker at its 2011
Family Business Awards banquet will be Rene Ancinas, the young CEO of Port Blakely Companies. Port Blakely, a fourth-generation forestry and real estate development company, won the Legacy category of Seattle Business magazine’s 2010 Family Business Awards in large part because of its
excellent succession planning. Ancinas, trained as a concert musician,
originally had little formal training in business, but his family saw in him great potential to be a leader and groomed him to be CEO. Come hear his story. Youll learn important insights that
will help guide your family business’s succession planning.