For Business
For Families
For Good
Aven Advisors is a boutique advisory firm focused on helping your family enterprise achieve multigenerational success in both business and legacy endeavors.
We work with families like yours to preserve the values and culture that form the foundation of your business while enhancing your family’s enduring influence. Our customized approach begins with understanding your company’s unique story, strategies, and structures across a range of key areas:
Our advisory process starts with an in-depth diagnostic assessment, giving us a clear understanding of your business’s history, dynamics, and goals, so we leverage its greatest strengths. We take an integrated approach, recognizing that long-term success in family enterprises depends on the alignment and support between the family, owners, and employees. Through our guidance and education, we deliver holistic, lasting improvements to this interconnected and complex system.
To find out more about our services, please email us at [email protected]
Our Founders
Matt Brown
Matt brings extensive experience in building, scaling, and leading organizations with a strong emphasis on cultivating healthy workplace cultures. Combining a strategic vision with humor, wisdom, and deep leadership development expertise, he helps clients achieve transformative change. His career spans founding multiple nonprofits, serving in executive corporate roles, and driving business growth. Above all, his most important accomplishment is raising three children in New York City alongside his wife, Deb.
Josh Eby
Josh has participated in, started, and built teams for most of his life. From playing in the Rose Bowl to caring for the unhoused to executive recruiting, founding churches and non-profits, and caring for executives and the organizations they lead, he has experienced the impact of organizational culture. Josh has worked with a variety of leaders and organizations that are grateful for his insight, care, concern, and passion to build a healthy culture. Josh and his wife Robin have been privileged to raise their 5 children in a few different places, including internationally. They have called Austin, TX home for the past 14 years.
Our Advisors
Trey Closson
Trey is the Co-Founder and CEO of Amplio, which he started in 2021. Prior to that, he worked at Georgia-Pacific, where he served as their Director of Marine Logistics and International Logistics. Trey has deep expertise in setting and executing strategy, process and business innovation, account management, and business development. He has demonstrated the ability to quickly diagnose complex challenges and design innovative solutions. He is a leader who is passionate about building positive change that enables individuals, companies, and communities to flourish.
Vern Glaser
Vern is a Business, Entrepreneurship, and Family Enterprise professor at the University of Alberta School of Business. In addition to his academic load, he founded Red Hill Advisors, a consulting firm specializing in management and software development services in the areas of Strategic Planning, Organizational Assessment and Restructurings, Process Improvement Initiatives, and Financial Modeling. Vern is gifted in applying his research to how organizations strategically change practices and culture.
Will Newbrander
Will has extensive experience growing and leading businesses within the asset management field including multi-generational family offices, hedge funds, and private equity groups. These roles have called upon Will’s persistence, creativity, and collaborative team-first approach as he has helped shepherd firms through periods of rapid growth, capital raising, restructuring, and market turbulence. His fly-by-instrument commitment to process and culture building has made him a valued confidante of his peers. He enjoys connecting people and helping them think through strategic solutions to challenges.
Jim Palmer
Jim has excelled in leadership roles across diverse industries, including non-profit, government, healthcare, faith-based, & social services. He has received accolades at both national & local levels and has served on multiple boards. Jim led the Orange County Rescue Mission toward incredible growth, impact, and change for more than 30 years. Jim’s values are rooted in hope, a passion for excellence, and the strength to live in service to others.