
"The Family Business Experience" is a podcast produced by the Center for Family Business at Penn State Behrend, sponsored by Zac Wild of Edward Jones. This insightful series explores the unique challenges and opportunities faced by family-owned businesses in northwestern Pennsylvania. Each episode features: - Interviews with seasoned family business owners - Discussions on navigating family dynami... more
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 17 | Founded | 4 months ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Category | Business | |||

This episode features a conversation with Kevin DiGilio, founder of KMD Technology Solutions and spin‑off AIBI, on how a highly technical software company unexpectedly grew into a multigenerational family enterprise. Kevin traces the journey from a s... more
In this episode, we sit down with James Bly, Managing Director of Family Enterprise Business Services at EY, to talk about what the next 40–50 years will look like for family business heirs. James explains why the post‑World War II era of globalizati... more
In this episode, we sit down with Steve and Nate Jones of Ron Jones Hardwood, a multi‑generation hardwood lumber company rooted in northwestern Pennsylvania. Steve shares how his father Ron launched the business in 1983, built a reputation strong eno... more
When Tom Tredway moved back to Erie to join his family’s plastics company, he walked straight into a crisis: the bank dropped them, 60% of their business had disappeared offshore, and his dad was asking if it was time to shut the doors.
Instead of l... more
What if Erie could keep more of its own tax dollars working here at home?
In this episode, host Jacob Jones sits down with Brian Polito, Executive Director of the Erie CRIZ Authority, to unpack how the City Revitalization and Improvement Zone (CRIZ)... more
In this episode, host Jacob sits down with Casey Lucas Szumigala, founder and owner of Click Pragmatics, to dive into the messy, emotional, and absolutely necessary communication that keeps family businesses alive. Casey unpacks how families can talk... more
Strategic investment is turning Erie from a legacy manufacturing town into a modern innovation hub, and this episode dives into the people and partnerships making it happen.
Today’s conversation spotlights the Erie Revitalization Investment Fund, a... more
Fourth‑generation owner Shane Reese joins Zach and Jacob to share the nearly 100‑year story of General Exterminating, an Erie‑based pest control company that began with his great‑grandfather’s Depression‑era decision to find a “recession‑proof” busin... more









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