Wisdom Board - PULSE podcast - Edouard Thijssen, Founder, Trusted Family
PULSE Podcast Series | Episode 11
Engaging dialogue with the co-founder of Trusted Family, Edouard Thijssen. Trusted Family is an award-winning technology platform serving the world’s leading family businesses. Founded by two next-generation entrepreneurs from European business families, the company leverages a decade of industry expertise to help multi-generational family businesses thrive and achieve sustainable, long-term success. Based in Brussels, Belgium, and with family business clients in 25 countries globally.
Episode Description:
This episode features a wide-ranging conversation with one of the world's leading figures in family office technology, Trusted Family's co-founder, Edouard Thijssen. Edouard co-founded the company in 2007, and has built a remarkable leader in the cloud technology industry dedicated to the needs of family offices and their operating companies. Edouard brings meaningful experiences to Trusted Family following his earlier work at The Family Business Network International Foundation, and work with many tens of family offices globally, a non-profit run by family businesses, for family businesses, seeking to strengthen successful enterprises over generations over 60 countries.
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Edouard Thijssen is one of the co-founders of TrustedFamily. With a passion for technology and innovation, he identified a gap in the market for a communications platform constructed specially for a niche, affluent group to communicate efficiently in a secure manner. Age 21, he established TrustedFamily. Edouard is a graduate of the Solvay Business School, having completed an undergraduate management degree in 2007. He also has completed a course in Family Business at IMD, Switzerland. Edouard was on his way to London School of Economics when the entrepreneur in him chose the TrustedFamily route and he has not regretted it since. As a founder, he led the company as CEO until recently and now, as Commercial Director concentrates his efforts on Business Development and Client Services and works actively to encourage families across the world to adopt the TrustedFamily platform.
