Proven Model

CEO-CF is the first and only pan-European CEO forum, but it is based on an international model with an impressive track record.

• More than 12,000 CEOs worldwide belong to CEO forums.
• These CEOs represent approximately 1.1 million employees.
• The combined annual revenue of their companies exceeds €$250 billion.
• Their companies grow at a rate that is five times the average for small to medium-sized businesses headed by non-forum CEOs.

""While being in this CEO forum may not help me predict the future, it allows me to be able to see it better and be more prepared for it.""

Marien van Ouwerkerk, mBalance

Expert Team

Ensuring the highest return on member investment with extensive preparation, expert facilitation, and continuous support and follow-up, the CEO-CF team:

• Integrates entrepreneurial expertise, mergers and acquisitions experience, capital raise and exit activities, and extensive board and chief executive advisory experience.
• Researches and writes extensively on best practice topics related to high-tech entrepreneurship.
• Learns about and stays current with member issues and challenges.
• Designs and facilitates highly interactive sessions tailored to each member's needs.
• Encourages breakthrough ideas by facilitating innovative thinking.
• Provides mechanisms for concise and timely updates between events.
• Initiates a powerful feedback loop by distributing documentation of each member's most significant discoveries and commitments to their peer group.

"Just landed back in London and wanted to thank you for another excellent CEO-CF forum. I am not sure how you are going to continuously improve from here as you are getting pretty close to perfect. Thanks again."

Keith Cornell

World-class Peers

Each CEO-CF collaborative forum comprises the highest echelon of world-class peers from high-growth high-tech companies,

• All are CEOs of European-based technology companies.
• All are dedicated to growing great companies and scaling those companies to significant stakeholder valuation.
• A full 30% have experienced IPO exits.
• Current member CEOs have raised more than €100m of financing.
• The combined turnover of current members is approximately €500m in annual revenue.
• More than 25% of our members are on the Europe 500 list of fastest growing companies.

"The best part of being a member of the CEO-Collaborative Forum is that we know each other. We have forged a connection and a network to exchange ideas."

Rui Quarta-Feira, WeDo Consulting

Transformative Experience

The CEO-CF team draws on its own extensive knowledge and the resources of partners throughout the western world.

• CEO-CF employs its own trademarked intellectual property tools and the time-tested intellectual property of its respected US partner, Catlin and Cookman Group.
• The forum's intimate and entirely confidential environment encourages honest and open discussions among CEOs.
• Time away from the office gives corporate leaders the opportunity to turn their full attention to the business, develop a broader perspective, and engineer productive solutions.
• Forums provide a sounding board that fosters lateral thinking and the sharing of multiple points of view.
• New best practices emerge when knowledgeable CEOs gather in the open, collaborative setting of the forum.
• The members' combined talent, experience, and dynamism create an unparalleled opportunity for CEO development and company growth.

Extraordinary Benefits

Through intense personal discussions and focused content workshops, member CEOs achieve results that transform their companies and their careers.

• CEOs improve their decision-making capabilities through direct and honest brainstorming on issues that cannot be discussed with staff, board members, or friends.
• The powerful peer group interaction and commitment to regular meetings over a period of years enhances both trust and accountability.
• The forum diminishes isolation. Life can be lonely at the top, and CEOs place a high value on the camaraderie they enjoy within their groups.
• With the powerful, multifaceted support of the forum, CEOs amplify their best ideas to their greatest business advantage.
• Members build an increasingly extensive and indispensable national and international network. United in this intense experience, they forge longstanding business and personal alliances.

"For me, the greatest benefit is the feeling that I'm not so alone, that there are others rooting for me. And the sense that we want to come back to the group having achieved what we said we'd achieve."

Ben Heald, Sift