Tom McCullough

Tom McCullough is the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Northwood Family Office. Northwood was established in 2003 to provide integrated and holistic family office services to Canadian and global families of wealth. It is regularly ranked as the #1 Multi-Family Office in Canada in the Euromoney Private Banking and Wealth Survey. Tom is the co-author of Wealth of Wisdom: The Top 50 Questions Wealthy Families Ask (Wiley, 2018) and Family Wealth Management (Wiley, 2013). He is an adjunct professor and executive-in-residence at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management MBA program where he teaches the management of private wealth and is a faculty member in Rotman's Family Wealth Management program for families. Tom also serves on the board of directors for the Ultra High Net Worth Institute and was recently awarded Best Individual Contribution to Thought Leadership in the Wealth Management Industry (North America) by the 2020 Family Wealth Report Awards.

Keith Whitaker

Keith is president of Wise Counsel Research, a leading think-tank and consultancy in the field of family wealth. Keith is an educator who consults with leaders and rising generation members of enterprising families. Family Wealth Report named Keith the 2015 “outstanding contributor to wealth management thought-leadership.” Keith's writings and commentary have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Financial Times. He is the co-author of Wealth and the Will of God, The Cycle of the Gift, The Voice of the Rising Generation, Family Trusts, Complete Family Wealth, and Wealth of Wisdom: The Top 50 Questions Wealthy Families Ask. Keith has served as a managing director at Wells Fargo Family Wealth, an adjunct professor of management at Vanderbilt University, and an adjunct assistant professor of philosophy at Boston College. Keith holds a Ph.D. in social thought from the University of Chicago and a BA and MA in classics and philosophy from Boston University.