CEO-CF Member ROI Quotes

"The return on my involvement in CEO-CF is huge both qualitatively and quantitatively – for example I sold common stock at a preferred price in January 2008 and took one third off the table based on my group’s advice."

"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."

“In my year of membership at CEO-CF, my ROI was significant: (1) I was able to save €200,000 in my cost structure through and thought-out “sound redundancy”; (2) I was able to “tune” the value drivers and value proposition to raise and addition €2.0m in venture funds to fund our next stage of growth."