Total revenue of CEO-CF members: approximately €850M (more than $1.0 billion)

Total employment by CEO-CF member companies: approximately 5,000 families

CEO-CF member companies

Have raised over €160M in investment in the past 24 months.
Have offices in more than 30 countries.
Are growing revenue at an average rate of 45% per year.
Sell their products in over 200 countries.
Employ more than 5,000 people.
Generate nearly €1,000M in annual turnover.
Represent 23 Nationalities.
Have six CEOs recognized on Europe’s 500.
Have CEOs who grew their companies by 100% in 2007 and predict the same for 2008.
Have CEOs who organically grew the employee base by 100% last year.
Maintain offices in Asia (more than 40% of members) and the US (more than 50% of members).
Employ more than 25% of their employees from nationalities other than the companies' home country.
Range from approximately 20 to 300 employees, with an average of between 70 to 130 employees.

CEO-CF Member ROI Quotes

"The group has helped me to focus on my needs from the business, as well as those of my shareholders, employees, and customers. I believe that my clearer negotiation with my board and shareholders will mean that I will raise the value of my stake on the sale of one of my divisions by at least €50,000."

"I am very satisfied with the dynamics of the group-the opportunity to get to know each other and discuss deep and significant issues in such an open way without hidden agendas. A lot of personal learning has occurred that will impact my company greatly. This is much more powerful than a three-week session at INSEAD. It is real life."

"I received a very high ROI on the sales and compensation models."

"In my CEO-CF peer group, we have had good discussion about the core technology value of the company, which will have a positive impact on the corporate value . . . It could be €5M, or it could be €100M."

"Priceless. The group advised me to seek legal advice to avoid a serious personal liability."

"The CEO-CF advice to focus on sorting out our primary and critical customer relationship confirmed my own thoughts, escalated contacts, and generated +€2.5M extra revenue over original plan."

"A €150,000 ROI in my first contract by avoiding an excessive and early settlement discount for the major Tier 1 customer contract."

"The natural terms would have caused a dilution for me and the SMT of 50%. As a result of the CEO-Forum, everyone has increased their overall stake in the company even though we had a down round. I do not know the ROI yet, but it will be significant when the liquidity transaction occurs."

"During my CEO-CF session in Barcelona, I was challenged to sort out the cap table (founder and VC issues). The group helped give me the clarity and confidence to close it out and the impact has been €1.5M."

"I feel that the experience in the group has helped me to be in the position to achieve a good valuation in an MBO, and to secure a sizeable ownership position from which I could realize a considerable gain. Not possible to measure ROI yet-could be 100X."

"We doubled our valuation within six months. Part of this drastic increase certainly resulted from improved self-confidence, a far more focused, clearer corporate strategy, and other lessons that I learned in our CEO-CF sessions."