Peter May is one of the leading experts on family businesses and a pioneer in the strategic advisory of business-owning families. The business portal Family Capital counts him among the “World’s Top Family Enterprise Advisors”, and a major German business newspaper described him in a profile as “the man who understands families.” A lawyer and business economist, he advises and supports renowned entrepreneurial families and is the founder of PETER MAY Family Business People.
Prof. Dr. Peter May is regarded as the founding figure of ownership strategy advisory in Germany. He has advised many of the country’s leading entrepreneurial families and founded both INTES and the PETER MAY Group, the two leading consulting firms in this field. He has taught at some of the most renowned universities and business schools in Germany and abroad (including IMD and WHU), developed pioneering advisory concepts such as the Ownership Strategy, the Family Constitution and the Three-Dimensions Model, and initiated important projects such as the Governance Code for Family Businesses. A lawyer and business economist by training, he comes from an entrepreneurial family himself and has personal experience as a CEO and Chairman of Advisory Boards in family businesses.
In addition, Peter May is the author and editor of numerous publications on family businesses. His standard works, “The Family Business Success Model” and “Ownership Strategy in the Family Business – A Practical Guide”, have been translated into several languages.
Peter May’s principal areas of work are the long-term personal support of business-owning families, including service on advisory and supervisory boards, as well as taking on particularly complex and exciting projects.
His guiding principle is: “Family businesses are my passion. I am happy that I can combine this passion with my inclination to pass on knowledge and experience and turn my vocation into a profession. I love my work and everything that is connected with it.”