Josh Gentine

Josh Gentine is an advisor to enterprising families with operating companies and family offices. Josh’s work focuses on helping family owners navigate succession planning, establish alignment for the future direction of their enterprise, address conflict, and prepare the next generation of family leaders. Josh sits on the board of directors at his family’s company, Sargento Foods, Inc., as well as a family-owned ESOP auto dealership group. Additionally, Josh runs Bench Family Forums, round table groups for family executives in middle-market and large cap family-run companies and recently launched Family.Inc, a platform for connecting families-in-business.

Prior to starting Bench, Josh served as a Manager at Deloitte Consulting where he focused on mergers & acquisitions as well as helping lead the design of Deloitte Consulting’s global talent operating model. Josh earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Josh returned to Notre Dame following his MBA to study philosophy and theology in the seminary with the intent of becoming a Catholic priest. Josh is accredited as a Hogan- Certified, Gallup-Certified, and ICF Certified coach. Josh and his wife, Meredith have two young children, Henry and Juliette, and live in Charlottesville, VA.