CEO-CF Member Profile

The diversity of CEOs brings a dynamic integration of personalities and skills to every CEO-Collaborative forum. But members also share a number of essential characteristics, and those commonalities are critical to the success of these high-level collaborations. As one member described it, "It's a diverse group of individuals with a homogeneous set of concerns."

CEO-CF members are:

• Fast-growth leaders of high-technology companies.
• Proven managers with respected leadership skills.
• Collaborators who value learning with a group of peers.
• Leaders who are focused on aggressive growth.
• Smart, thoughtful people, committed to acting with integrity.
• Strategists poised to take their companies to a liquidity event in 5-7 years.
• Team players committed to building a strong board of directors.
• Tenacious, intelligent, balanced individuals resilient under stress.

CEO-CF members should be leaders of companies that have:

• Existed for a minimum of one year
• Possess pan-European, trans-Asian or trans-Atlantic growth strategies.
• Have a turnover below €100m.

CEOs join CEO-CF to:

• Develop and amplify their leadership abilities.
• Accelerate and amplify the valuation of their liquidity event.
• Envision and design new paths for the organization.
• Learn to energize, align, and empower senior management.
• Gain outside perspectives, frank feedback, and a global mindset.
• Build an invincible CEO peer group.

Most important, members of CEO-CF value having a group of people to learn from and to learn with as they work together to devise solutions for the complex issues and challenges of growth.