Director of Scarpa Imports Mark Kagan has been appointed as Chairman of the FBA Board. Mark brings with him a wealth of knowledge of the family business sector having been joint Managing Director of Kagan Logistics for a majority of his professional career. Mark began his early career as a solicitor before joining the family logistics business in 1985.

He was involved for 24 years alongside his first cousin, helping to develop it from a single facility in Melbourne to a National logistics company with over 100,000sq meters of storage space. The business was sold in 2008 when Mark and his cousin consolidated five logistics companies and on sold to private equity. He now runs a successful family business Scarpa Imports with his wife of whom has owned and operated the business for 32 years.

Mark has been a current committee member of The Royal Melbourne Hospital Foundation for over 5 years, has been a member of FBA for nearly 20 years and is a long term member of the FBA VIC forum group program. He looks forward to helping foster innovation and growth of family businesses across Australia.