Richard L. Narva, Partner

"Roseview's unique advisory bandwidth in business operations and strategy, family systems, and finance and capital markets provides the efficient and confidential service our clients seek in a unified team."

Richard Narva has been a partner at The Roseview Group since April 2005. As director of the firm's advisory practice, he helps entrepreneurs and family controlled enterprises preserve their values and vision while addressing organizational, strategic, governance and human capital issues.

Prior to joining Roseview, Mr. Narva was co-founder of Genus Resources, a family business consultancy, for more than twenty years. In addition to advising more than 250 family firms, during his career he has served in many other roles in family firms, including general counsel, director and President of a family controlled public company, son, grandson, son-in law, and brother of family firm owners, outside legal counsel, and trustee. In addition, he has lectured, written for and edited leading texts at numerous universities on the subject of university based family business programs, designed continuing legal education for professional associations including Attorneys for Family Held Enterprise ["AFHE"], the national association of lawyers who serve family controlled businesses, and the Family Firm Institute.

Mr. Narva received an A.B. degree from Brown University and a J.D. degree from Boston University School of Law, where he also served as Book Review and Articles Editor of the Boston University Law Review. He has been a member of the Massachusetts Bar since 1975 and practiced corporate law specializing in mergers and acquisitions before succeeding his father as president of Morton Shoe Companies, Inc., thus becoming the third generation in his family to head this American Stock Exchange-listed firm founded by his grandfather in 1921.

He also serves on many boards of family controlled enterprises.

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