My background is in biology. Before getting into the family business, I worked at the Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California at Santa Cruz, fundraising for them.

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

We're pulling Frances into the family business.

The mere idea of a woman's appealing to her family to screen her husband's business dishonour was inadmisible, since it was the one thing that the Family, as an institution, could not do.

I think the pros and cons of being in business with family is you have each other's back. You have to have mechanisms for when there is conflict to resolve it in ways that don't do irreparable damage to the relationship.

He left the business to myself. It was not really a family thing.