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Bryant Seaman III

Managing Director and Head of Private Asset Advisory
Bessemer Trust
Mr. Seaman is Managing Director and Head of Private Asset Advisory at Bessemer Trust. In this role, he is responsible for Family Company Advisory, Real Estate Management, and Oil & Gas Advisory. He also manages the oversight of family businesses held in trust. Prior to joining Bessemer, Bryant was Head of International and a member of the Management Committee at the New York Stock Exchange. Before that, he was Co-head of Global Corporate Finance at CSFB. He started his career practicing corporate law at Sullivan & Cromwell. Previously, he served as a member of the NASD International Advisory Committee and the National Committee for US-China Relations. Bryant also served on the Board of Directors of GeoResources, Inc. (NASDAQ: “GEOI”), an oil and gas company. Bryant earned a J.D. and an M.B.A. from Columbia University, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and an A.B. in political science, with distinction, from Stanford University.

SESSIONS

Rethinking Your Business Governance Speaker

The emerging best practice for a family-owned and controlled company is a business board with independent outside directors, following the lead of public companies.  This session will look at successful family business boards, and offer advice on how to deal with control issues, and how to make the current board even better.