Family Enterprise USA: Insider Updates from Capitol Hill

Family Business Washington Insider: What Successful Families Need to Know

The rules affecting family ownership, wealth, and generational continuity may be changing, and the decisions made in Washington could have significant consequences for family enterprises. Join the Family Enterprise USA team for an insider’s look at shifting voter attitudes, emerging wealth-tax proposals, pending tax and economic legislation, and the midterm races that could reshape the policy landscape. Learn what these developments may mean for family businesses, family offices, and the families behind them.



Russ Sullivan is chair of the National Tax Policy Group and Brownstein and provides unparalleled insight into the legislative and regulatory risks and opportunities related to tax policy. Russ is a Capitol Hill veteran who spent 14 years with the Senate Finance Committee, including nine as staff director. He leverages his vast network and industry expertise to devise and execute complex strategies for both nonprofit and for-profit clients on a broad range of issues, including health care, pension planning, trade, economic development, and tax policy.

 
Tim Schultz, CEO of Family Enterprise USA and FEUSA Action, combines deep family business expertise with hands-on federal advocacy experience to champion the interests of family enterprises in Washington, D.C., and across the country. Over his decades working with family enterprises, Tim has served in leadership roles spanning operations, governance, strategy, and federal advocacy, giving him a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities facing business-owning families. 

 
John Gugliada is Director of Engagement for Family Enterprise USA and FEUSA Action. He is an experienced Executive who partners with CEOs of both large and small businesses. He has worked with companies in multiple industry segments, spanning five continents as EVP and SVP. John holds an MBA from the University of Hartford and is a regular contributor to State economic and workforce development committees.
 
 
Family Enterprise USA promotes family-owned business creation, growth, viability, and sustainability by advocating for family businesses, and their lifetime of hard work, with Congress in Washington, D.C. Since 2007, Family Enterprise USA has represented and celebrated all sizes, professions, and industries of family-owned businesses and multi-generational employers. It is a bipartisan 501.c3 organization.
 
Family Enterprise USA Action is the voice for family-owned businesses and successful families in the United States, focused exclusively on the critical tax and economic policies that impact them. FEUSA Action is the leading advocacy group working daily in Washington, D.C., to reduce and eliminate estate tax, gift tax, and generation skipping transfer tax while blocking increased income and capital gains taxes, the creation of a wealth tax, and other hostile policies that punish hardworking taxpayers and success in the U.S. It is a bipartisan 501.c4 organization.