Joshua S. Kanter

Joshua S. Kanter is a Director and Vice President of the Kanter Family Foundation, and is the founder and current Board President of the Alliance for a Better Utah. Josh has been a board member, committee member, or otherwise involved with Roland Hall, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Temple Har Shalom, the University of Chicago Law School, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Governor Huntsman’s Utah Methamphetamine Joint Task Force Subcommittee on Public Awareness, the Corroon for Governor Campaign, various public art projects, and many others. In 2011, Josh received a Heart and Hands Award from the Utah Nonprofits Association, and was named to the Community Foundation of Utah’s E-5-0, an annual selection of 50 “enlightened entrepreneurs.”

Josh started his career in 1987 as a lawyer focusing on corporate and securities law, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, venture capital, private equity, bankruptcy, commercial lending, and more.

In 2001, with the death of his father imminent, Josh left private practice to become President of the family’s single-family office where, for the past 20+ years, Josh has been responsible for multi-generational, multi-branch communication, governance and education, family meeting design and facilitation, tax and estate planning, business and investment structuring, risk management, and all things family office related. Over the past 10+ years Josh has also worked with a number of outside families on many of these same issues.

As a student of multi-generational families and family offices, Josh has been a member of FOX, Forge, the Center for Family Flourishing, and various other family office groups and he has been a frequent author and panelist on family and family office topics.

Most recently, Josh founded leafplanner, Inc., a digital platform that creates a family “owner’s manual,” through the collection, organization and mapping of a family’s and family enterprise’s information in a single-source manner, allowing a family to identify blind spots, educate family members and advisors, and prepare a family for an effective, comprehensive, and efficient succession-of-information.

Josh has been a frequent speaker and panelist on family, family office, political, economic, and philanthropic topics.