Erika Madari Matwij – speaker at MKRF2025

Erika Madari Matwij is the founder of the Institute of Family Business (IRB) and Human Inside. With over 14 years of experience, she helps family businesses successfully navigate generational transitions and ensures a smooth and effective succession process.

She supports entrepreneurial families in aligning their family values with professional business management to achieve sustainable growth and multi-generational continuity.

In her work, Erika designs and implements comprehensive succession strategies, including the creation of family constitutions, facilitation of family councils, and setting up mutual agreements among family members.

As the only Slovak member of the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA), she brings an international perspective and deep expertise to the long-term success and stability of family businesses. She is also a member of the Family Business Center.

Through IRB, she and her team organize the International Family Business Congress and the Successors Academy, both designed to support founders in handing over the business and successors in taking the lead.