The Business Marketing Association, which specializes in business-to-business marketing and communication, aims to help businesses meet their customers's needs on a consistent basis. There mission is three-fold: To be the primary repository of crucial B2B marketing information and resources; attract the best practitioners; promote the best practices in the industry.

MarketingNPV is a highly specialized consulting firm that builds marketing measurement processes, tools, and skills to determine the financial return from marketing investments. The company designs and implements marketing dashboards, marketing ROI and analytical frameworks, and brand scorecards that measure the creation of economic and strategic value for both the short and long term. MarketingNPV maintains an online archive of articles and resources and publishes a quarterly journal, all to help marketers make smarter decisions and stronger cases to secure, allocate, or defend resources.

The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) is the premier global non-profit trade association representing all players in the mobile marketing value chain. With more than 700 member companies, the MMA is an action-oriented organization with global focus, regional actions and local relevance. The MMA's primary focus is to establish mobile as an indispensible part of the marketing mix. The MMA works to promote, educate, measure, guide and protect the mobile marketing industry worldwide. The MMA's global headquarters are located in the United States and it has regional chapters including North America (NA), Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Latin America (LATAM), and Asia Pacific (APAC) branches. For more information, please visit www.mmaglobal.com.

MMA members include agencies, advertisers, hand held device manufacturers, wireless operators and service providers, retailers, software and services providers, as well as any company focused on the potential of marketing via the mobile channel.

Leveraging industry best practices and emerging trends, Market4Demand is a technology marketing consulting firm that delivers strategic and tactical services designed to successfully market innovative products. Representing enterprise and consumer technology solutions, Market4Demand clients include Sun Microsystems, Fujitsu, A3 Solutions, Contivo (acquired by Liaison Technologies), Saqqara (acquired by Parts River), Workshare, digitalPersona and Cartesis (acquired by Business Objects). The company specializes in marketing planning and implementation, interim marketing management, product marketing and marketing communications. Market4Demand is headquartered in San Francisco, California with offices outside of Denver, Colorado and Sacramento, California.

The Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP) was launched by the International Chamber of Commerce to 1) Connect and mobilize businesses across industries, sectors and national borders in the fight against counterfeiting and piracy; 2) Pool resources and expertise -- creating greater critical mass than any single company or sector could do alone; 3) Amplify the voice and views of business to governments, public and media -- increasing both awareness and understanding of counterfeiting and piracy activities and the associated economic and social harm; 4) Compel government action and the allocation of resources towards strengthened intellectual property rights enforcement; and 5) Create a culture change to ensure intellectual property is respected and protected.

Hand in Hand is a Public Charitable Trust registered in the year 2002 with an initial focus on child labour elimination, education, and the empowerment of women. The organisation has been in operation since 1988 in Kancheepuram District, Tamil Nadu, India. With time, our activities have expanded as per the demands from the rural communities in which we are working, and have come to include poverty reduction interventions among rural, poor families in a big way. We envisage an integrated strategy to address the challenges of poverty and underdevelopment. It aims at building self-reliance of disadvantaged groups by alleviating poverty through sustained income generating programmes.

SIFE brings together a diverse network of university students, academic professionals and industry leaders around the shared mission of creating a better, more sustainable world through the positive power of business. By contributing their talents to projects that improve the lives of people worldwide, SIFE participants are demonstrating that individuals with a knowledge and passion for business can be a powerful force for change.

Malaria No More is determined to end malaria deaths. A non-profit, non-governmental organization, Malaria No More makes high-yield investments of time and capital to speed progress, unlock resources, mobilize new assets and spur the world toward reaching this goal. Malaria No More was born of a simple, startling insight: that ending malaria's death grip on Africa is the best humanitarian investment we can make in the world today. Nothing else can have the same impact on as many people's lives and livelihoods as quickly or cheaply.

World Serve International is a non-sectarian, non-profit organization engaged in humanitarian relief and economic development. WorldServe exists to alleviate poverty by giving poor people help for today and hope for tomorrow. Providing sustainable growth opportunities and strategically investing in entrepreneurial communities, WorldServe seeks to restore dignity to people's lives. Recent innovative projects include launching water well drilling operations, strategic medical missions, and micro-finance loans to create job opportunities. WorldServe is a non-political, international organization that partners with a diverse array of businesses, organizations and communities.

Rhodes University is an outstanding internationally-respected academic institution which proudly affirms its African identity and which is committed to democratic ideals, academic freedom, rigorous scholarship, sound moral values and social responsibility. In pursuit of its vision, the University strives to produce outstanding internationally-accredited graduates who are innovative, analytical, articulate, balanced and adaptable, with a life-long love of learning; and strives, through teaching, research and community service, to contribute to the advancement of international scholarship and the development of the Eastern Cape and Southern Africa.

Gifts In Kind International links donor resources to enhance, empower, and restore communities and people in need. It is the twelfth largest charity in America according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, and it generated and placed nearly $750 million in urgently needed new product donations last year. Gifts In Kind receives donations from thousands of large and small companies, including half of the Fortune 100 technology, retail, and consumer corporations. It distributes these donations to more than 150,000 community charities across the United States and throughout the world.

MOVIEGUIDE™ is affiliated with the Christian Film & Television Commission ministry, also founded by Dr. Baehr, which is a non-profit ministry of Good News Communications, Inc. Both MOVIEGUIDE and CFTVC are dedicated to redeeming the values of the entertainment industry, according to biblical principles, by influencing industry executives and artists and by informing and educating the public about the influence of the entertainment media and about how to train their families to become media-wise, so they can choose the good and reject the bad. Thus, all of MOVIEGUIDE™’s activities have led to a significant increase in the number of family-friendly and Christian-friendly movies over the past 21 years. Support from those concerned about objectionable content in the media remains absolutely vital to the ongoing work of this organization.

Health People is unique in the United States as a groundbreaking peer organization which helps people from low-income communities become leaders to effectively fight chronic ill health. Started in 1990 as a women's AIDS prevention and support program, Health People has grown to provide a full range of AIDS services for men, women and families, as well as to start a large community asthma program, New York's first diabetes peer educators program and a community smoking cessation program.

Soaringwords works to empower communities to embrace ill children and families and inspire them to ‘never give up’. Each year, it is estimated that 18% of all children in the U.S. suffer from chronic illness. Soaringwords provides in-person and online support that boosts self-esteem and helps reduce isolation. While doctors and hospitals support chronically and catastrophically ill children with essential medical care, Soaringwords focuses on the psycho-social factors that are essential for patients and families to heal.

Feed The Children is a Christian, international, nonprofit relief organization with headquarters in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, that delivers food, medicine, clothing and other necessities to individuals, children and families who lack these essentials due to famine, war, poverty, or natural disaster. During their 30-year history, Feed The Children has grown into one of the world's largest private organizations dedicated to helping hungry and hurting people. Last year, Feed The Children shipped 135 million pounds of food and other essentials to children and families in all 50 states and in 32 foreign countries, supplementing almost 800,000 meals a day worldwide.

The American Kidney Fund fights kidney disease through direct financial support to patients in need; health education; and prevention efforts. Thanks to the generosity of many Americans who care about their friends and neighbors with kidney disease, in 2008 the American Kidney Fund was able to provide $119.5 million in treatment-related financial assistance to more than 75,000 kidney patients nationwide.

Ubuntu Education Fund is dedicated to working with the people of the Eastern Cape Province to develop quality education and healthy communities in the new South Africa.

The Freeplay Foundation is an internationally acclaimed humanitarian organisation. We've helped more than 8 million poor and vulnerable people improve the quality of their daily lives through the distribution of sustainable, self-powered and environmentally friendly technologies.

United Way is a national network of nearly 1,300 local organizations that work to advance the common good by focusing on education, income and health. These are the building blocks for a good life: a quality education that leads to a stable job, enough income to support a family through retirement, and good health.

DonorsChoose.org is an online charity that makes it easy for anyone to help students in need. Here's how it works: public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org. Requests range from pencils for a poetry writing unit, to violins for a school recital, to microscope slides for a biology class. Then, you can browse project requests and give any amount to the one that makes your eye twinkle. Once a project reaches its funding goal, we deliver the materials to the school. You'll get photos of your project taking place, a thank-you letter from the teacher, and a cost report showing how each dollar was spent. If you give over $100, you'll also receive hand-written thank-you letters from the students.

Children’s Health Fund, founded in 1987 by pediatrician/child advocate Irwin Redlener, MD, and singer/songwriter Paul Simon, is committed to providing comprehensive health care to the nation’s most medically underserved children through the development and support of innovative primary care medical programs and the promotion of guaranteed access to appropriate health care for all children. Children’s Health Fund realizes this mission through the energy and talent of our dedicated team of doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers, nutritionists, and other clinical and support staff and our partnerships with esteemed academic medical centers and concerned corporate and individual sponsors.

Special Olympics is made up of passionate, committed individuals from every walk of life, who recognize the value and unique gifts of people with intellectual disabilities. And who, together, share the common belief in dignity, equality and opportunity for ALL people. Special Olympics is a global nonprofit organization targeting the nearly 200 million people round the world who have intellectual disabilities. With a presence in nearly 200 countries worldwide and seven world-region offices, we are constantly expanding. We can say with all truth that “the sun never sets on the Special Olympics movement.

Emory University's Zyman Institute of Brand Science (ZIBS), an innovation research group based at Emory University's Goizueta Business School in Atlanta, fosters rich collaboration between business managers and leading scholars worldwide. The institute supports advanced research in brand management with the goal of developing useful knowledge that drives superior business performance. The Goizeuta Business School is consistently ranked amongst the top 20 business programs. www.zibs.com

Institute for the Study of Business Markets (ISBM) was founded in 1983 and is currently a leading Academic Center in Business-to-Business Marketing. The Mission of ISBM is to expand research and teaching in business-to-business marketing and sales in academia and to improve the practice of business-to-business marketing and sales in industry. We accomplish our mission through three agendas: Research, education, networking and interchange. ISBM is committed to a leadership role in bringing more talent into our discipline, accelerating high-quality practical research, and spearheading new ways to create more profitable B-to-B marketing and sales practice. www.smeal.psu.edu/isbm/

Sales & Marketing Executives International (SMEI) is the worldwide organization dedicated to ethical standards, continuing professional development, knowledge sharing, mentoring students and advancing free enterprise. Since no other worldwide executive sales and marketing associations exist, SMEI fills a void by providing a personal and professional community devoted to providing knowledge, growth, leadership and connections between peers in both sales and marketing. With over 10,000 members around the world, members benefit from both the strength of an international organization and the resources that a local chapter provides through ongoing seminars, lectures and networking opportunities.

Established in San Francisco in 1938, the Northern California chapter of the Business Marketing Association (Norcal BMA) is the leading business to business marketing organization in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley. Norcal BMA offers a robust set of programs to members and the marketing community at large, including a series of regular roundtables on various marketing topics, as well as monthly educational and social events, networking, resources and B2B job listings.

The Society for Marketing Professional Services (www.smps.org ) represents a dynamic network of more than 6,000 marketing and business development professionals from architectural, engineering, planning, interior design, construction, and specialty construction firms located throughout the United States and Canada. The Society and its 50+ chapters benefit from the support of 3,700 design and building firms, encompassing 80% of the Engineering News-Record Top 500 Design Firms and Top 400 Contractors. SMPS’s mission is to advocate for, educate, and connect leaders in the building industry. SMPS is the only organization dedicated to creating business opportunities in the A/E/C industry.

The rapid evolution and increasing use of mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets is creating unprecedented opportunities for the marketing research industry. This fast developing and complex industry needs a unifying body, a single voice, and a place to exchange the best and most innovative of ideas.

Mobile Marketing Research Association (MMRA) exists to unite and serve the industry in developing best practices, professional standards and ethics regarding the use of mobile devices for marketing research. MMRA is building a foundation for education, conducting studies and creating communications to foster this growing industry. For more information on how you can shape future of the mobile marketing research, please visit: http://www.mmra-global.org

By training current and future leaders in their home markets, business schools in Africa play a critical role in laying the groundwork for economic development. The Association of African Business Schools (AABS) is an association of leading business schools throughout the African Continent. AABS promotes excellence in business and management education through capacity building, collaboration and quality improvement. Business schools that do not meet the requirements for membership can join AABS as Pipeline Schools with the full benefits of membership while aiming to meet all the requirements within three years. AABS equips faculty members through an annual teaching course titled “Teaching the Practice of Management” (TPM) and an annual programme for new researchers titled “Research and the Practice of Manage-ment” (RPM). AABS also provides strategic support and advice to deans and directors through inter-national study visits, peer reviews, workshops and conferences as well as consultant visits to schools. AABS runs an annual case study competition in collaboration with Emerald. AABS is governed by an elected Board of members from around the continent and a secretariat based in Johannesburg. AABS provides member schools with an endorsement of quality, an opportunity to learn from peers, and access to a worldwide network.

With a network of members that extends beyond continental borders, SAMENA Telecommunications Council, a multi-continent telecom consortium, aims to be the ultimate promoter of telecom innovations in its member regions and a facilitator for collaboration and knowledge-sharing between regional telecom entities. Such collaboration and knowledge-sharing between operators, vendors, manufacturers, entrepreneurs, educators, R&D experts, and regulators, aids effective resolutions to technical, economical, and legal issues in regions where tough economical and regulatory environments prevail.

A win-win platform, the Council strives to provide its Members in South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa the power and the means to actively learn the dynamics of telecom markets in the three high-growth regions. SAMENA Members are provided insights to help expedite fulfillment of their organizations' existing goals, as well as ideas that will propel the establishment of new.

SAMENA's scheduled programs, internal committees, and an all-inclusive Web portal, together, will provide companies, professionals, and regulatory authorities means for seeking and suggesting solutions on mutually beneficial and collaborative fronts. A collage of valuable and targeted information, ranging from business-specific country data to latest telecom M&A (merger and acquisition) activities, will be provided to all Members to help them explore new revenue generating opportunities and execute well-informed decision making.

With an expanding member portfolio, the Council is quickly securing strong footing in the region. SAMENA membership is a smart and highly cost-effective investment, which every telecommunications business and professional can afford, and is encouraged to make country's that are part of SAMENA's current network include, Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Notably, however, organizations from countries of Asia Pacific, Europe and North America also form part of the SAMENA membership.

The Russian Marketing and Advertisement Association is a union of professionals from all over Russia, who understand the Russian market. Our aim is to help international brands enter the Russian market and find and help them find their place. Our association strives to be the main advertising and marketing core of Russia and we are proud of what has been accomplished. The RMAA services brands from the USA, South Korea, Great Britain, China, Japan and Vietnam.

The Location Based Marketing Association is an international group dedicated to fostering research, education and collaborative innovation at the intersection of people, places, and media. Our goal is simple: To educate, share best practices, establish guidelines for growth and to promote the services of member companies to brands and other content-related providers. The over 600 members of the LBMA include retailers, restaurant chains, agencies, advertisers, media buyers, software and services providers, and wireless companies. 

Sales & Marketing Executives International (SMEI) is the worldwide organization dedicated to ethical standards, continuing professional development, knowledge sharing, mentoring students and advancing free enterprise.

The Society for Marketing Professional Services (www.smps.org) represents a dynamic network of 6,000 marketing and business development professionals from architectural, engineering, planning, interior design, construction, and specialty construction firms located throughout the United States and Canada. The Society and its 50+ chapters benefit from the support of 3,600 design and building firms, encompassing 80% of the Engineering News-Record Top 500 Design Firms and Top 400 Contractors. SMPS’s mission is to advocate for, educate, and connect leaders in the building industry. SMPS is the only organization dedicated to creating business opportunities in the A/E/C industry.

EMA is an integrated marketing communications agency with specialized expertise in business-to-business marketing, public relations and public affairs, consumer advertising, shopper marketing and digital/direct/relationship marketing. With offices in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany, N.Y.; Cincinnati; Charlotte, N.C.; and Atlanta, EMA serves clients throughout the United States. EMA also serves many of its clients through thenetworkone, the world’s largest independent network of advertising, creative, digital, media and marketing agencies covering 65 countries. EMA belongs to the American Association of Advertising Agencies and IPREX, a worldwide partnership of independent public relations firms. Named #5 on Advertising Age’s Best Places to Work 2012 list, EMA has 250 professionals and $236 million in capitalized billings for 2012. Visit www.mower.com for more information.

Leveraging industry best practices and emerging trends, Market4Demand is a technology, life sciences and educational marketing consulting firm that delivers strategic and tactical services designed to successfully market innovative products and services. Representing enterprise and consumer products and services, Market4Demand clients include Sun Microsystems, Fujitsu, Mu Dynamics (acquired by Spirent Communications) Spirent Communications, A3 Solutions, Contivo (acquired by Liaison Technologies), Saqqara (acquired by Parts River), Workshare (acquired by SkyDox), DigitalPersona and Cartesis (acquired by Business Objects), Proximex (acquired by ADT Security Services, Inc.), Spinal Integration, LLC, Rhausler, Inc., First Focus Learning Systems, Gorin Tennis Academy, Gorin School of Music, and Hewlett-Packard. The company specializes in interim executive marketing, marketing planning and implementation, product marketing, and all aspects of marketing communications, including social media, mobile marketing and digital strategy. Market4Demand is headquartered in San Francisco, California. For more information about Market4Demand and its services, visit http://www.market4demand.com or call (415) 218-6041

Pipeline is the leading publication solely focused on providing in-depth and ongoing coverage of the OSS/BSS industry. Service Providers in more than 160 countries turn to Pipeline for relevant information to aid them in the delivery of next generation services. Pipeline covers emerging OSS and BSS issues and the evolution of the communications industry, and provides timely news analysis and perspective from top analysts and the foremost OSS/BSS vendors. Now in its eighth volume, Pipeline continues to lead the telecom publishing industry through its innovative on-line format, interactive advertisements and provocative editorial content. Read the current issue of Pipeline at www.pipelinepub.com

RCR Wireless News: enabling intelligence on all things wireless for industry leaders and enterprise volume buyers. RCR Wireless News is the premier news source for the wireless communications industry and is first with carrier, distributor, network, handset and mobile content news. Published since 1981, RCR Wireless News keeps our subscribers engaged and informed with breaking stories, enlightened features and invaluable industry insight. RCR Wireless News target audience is executive-level employees at leading wireless companies, and volume buyers at enterprise-class organizations. It is our dedication to editorial excellence that leads executives to consistently choose RCR Wireless News over other industry publications. RCR Wireless News offers daily email alerts so wireless industry professionals can stay informed on industry happenings.

Founded in 2000, Light Reading is the leading online media, research, and focused event company serving the $3 trillion worldwide communications market. Lightreading. com is the ultimate source for technology and financial analysis of the communications industry, leading the media sector in terms of traffic, content, and reputation. Light Reading’s research arms, Heavy Reading and Pyramid Research, provide the most comprehensive communications research, market data, and technology analysis in close to 100 markets around the world. Light Reading produces nearly 20 targeted communications events including TelcoTV, Ethernet Expo New York and Ethernet Expo London, The Tower Summit @ CTIA, and Optical Expo, as well as focused one-day events tailored for cable, mobile, and wireline executives.

Set up in 1976, Singapore Exhibition Services (SES) has established itself as one of the most innovative and respected exhibition and conference organisers in Asia. A pioneer in the Singapore exhibition industry, SES events have served as important platforms for companies aiming to forge new business contacts in Asia. With a portfolio of international tradeshows already serving the Communications, Engineering, Machinery and Lifestyle industries, SES continues to develop new events to meet market needs. SES events consistently attract a high level of overseas participation with foreign exhibitors accounting for almost 80% of the show floor. SES is a member of Allworld Exhibitions Alliance, a global network with over 50 offices worldwide.

The Wise Marketer provides free daily news and resources for marketing professionals, including surveys, research, customer loyalty, CRM, emerging technologies and developments, trends and forecasts, industry events, a directory of major players and suppliers, and much more. Through the publisher of heavyweight research reports such as The Loyalty Guide and The Marketing Guide, we aim to give marketers, executives and investors in every country and region the pure facts without any hype or bias.

CMO Council Contact
Donovan Neale-May
Executive Director
650.328.5555 x4200
donovan@cmocouncil.org