Transitions West early bird rates expire Sept. 23

Early registration discounts for “Transitions West 2011: Succession, Estate Planning and Family Company Governance” expire on Sept. 23. The conference, produced by Family Business Magazine and Stetson University’s Family Enterprise Center, will be held Nov. 1-3, 2011, at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco. To receive the special discounted hotel room rate, hotel reservations must be made by Oct. 11.

The conference will center on three sessions:

• Succession Planning: What Works and What Doesn’t
• Wealth Transfer, Estate Planning and How to Use Expert Advice
• Family Company Governance: The Nuts and Bolts

Keynote addresses will be delivered by Peter Booth Wiley, chairman, and Jesse Wiley, seventh-generation member, John Wiley & Sons; Jamie Richardson, vice president, corporate relations, White Castle; and Preston Root, president of the Root Family Board of Directors.

Other family speakers include Dianne Daiss Felton, chairman, Mechanics Bank; Ross Born, co-CEO, Just Born Inc., Marie Mentor, family president, Laird Norton Company; Keith Campbell, chairman, Mannington Mills Inc.; Christine Wente, senior vice president, hospitality, Wente Vineyards; Dan Agnew, co-owner and board member, Columbia Distributing; Sylvia Shepard, chair, Smith Family Council, Menasha Corporation; Sam J. Susser, director, Susser Holdings Corporation; Monique An, general manager, Crustacean San Francisco; and Lansing Crane; former chairman and CEO, Crane & Co. Inc.

For conference information and to register, see

www.familybusinessmagazine.com/transitions

, or contact program manager Justine Wood at

justineawood@me.com

or (703) 850-5497.

For hotel reservations, call the Sir Francis Drake at (800) 227-5480 by Oct. 11 and request the “Transitions West” rate.

Transitions West 2011’s Platinum Sponsor is PwC. Gold Sponsors are Bessemer Trust, GenSpring Family Offices and Bernstein Global Wealth Management. The Silver Sponsor is Withers Bergman. Bronze Sponsors are Pitcairn, the University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business and CFAR. The Supporting Sponsor is Mechanics Bank.