Martin Roll is an experienced global business strategist, senior advisor and facilitator to Fortune 500 companies, Asian firms, family-owned businesses, and family offices. He advises clients on strategy, leadership, transformation, stewardship, succession, governance, professionalisation, ownership, impact, and other critical topics for long-term, inter-generational success.

Martin is counselling business families on their legacy building, including crafting and executing a carefully curated balance between past, present, and future which typically characterises successful family-owned businesses.

He works on multi-generational situations and complex challenges globally in all types of cultures. Roll has deep expertise and experience with most types of business family dynamics, multi-generational and next-generation challenges, and long-term planning and strategy situations.

He is the CEO of Martin Roll Company with more than 30 years of board and C-suite counselling experience.

Martin is a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company focusing on global family business and family office topics.

He is an advisor to several other global boards and prominent business families, and a mentor for next-generation leaders in business families, start-ups, and high-growth companies.

Martin is a Distinguished Fellow (family business and family office), editor and host of the “INSEAD Family Business Podcast”, and an Entrepreneur in Residence at INSEAD Business School.

He has mentored more than 650 individual next-generation leaders from global business families and family offices in private, confidential 1:1 conversations (1,300+ sessions).

Author of forthcoming management books “Family Business Strategy” (2025) and “Family Office Strategy” (2025).

Martin Roll has lived in Asia for two decades and serves clients on all continents. MBA from INSEAD