About Us

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• About Us
• Club Services
• Members
• Testimonials
• How to Join

• About Us

Welcome to the Technology Executives Club!

The Club is the premier Thought Leadership Community for IT Management.

The Club provides seminars, webinars, whitepapers, on-demand webcasts, and newsletters which help IT and business executives stay current and share best practices on information technology in the enterprise. We serve two constituents:

Enterprise Executives who want to keep up to date and share best practices with their peers both in Chicago at our seminars, and worldwide via our website library of whitepapers and webcasts, webinars and newsletter service.

Providers who serve the IT community are also able to participate in the dialog, while gaining brand awareness and lead generation through the Club's exclusive Lead Generation Service.

We welcome you to join our active community of over 13,990 IT and technology professionals who use the Club monthly.

• Club Services
  
  
  • Nationally Recognized Educational Seminars
    Executives from across the country attend our seminars as they recognize the high quality for a reasonable fee. Corporate members have the option to include a ticket subscription built into their package. As an example, for only $1000 IT departments can send multiple staff members to all eleven seminars in a single year.
    
  • Online Webinars -- Coming in Fall 2008
    Coming in 2008 the Club will launch a series of webinars designed to reach out to our online audience. If you can't make our seminars we'll bring the webinars to you!
    
  • Free Online Whitepaper Repository
    Our online library offers a valuable repository of free whitepapers and articles of IT best practices.
    
  • Free Weekly On-Demand Webcasts
    Each week, we post a free webcast of one of our top presentations from our highly rated seminars. This is a free service to the community and all you need to do to take advantage of it is to be a newsletter subscriber and watch the webcast right away before it gets moved to our member library.
    
  • Free Weekly Online Newsletter Service
    Each Monday our newsletter service delivers our Weekly Review, which highlights our featured whitepaper and webcast of the week, plus a listing of the previous week's whitepaper postings. Newsletter subscribers also get access to special offers from our members, plus updates on our events. The newsletter service is provided to the community at no charge, and members enjoy the ability to post their content as part of their membership.
    
  • IT Directory
    A popular online resource to search for IT related services and products offered by our members.
    
  • IT Resource Center
    A valuable online resource, includes classifieds of jobs, announcements and community event postings.
    
  • Lead Generation and Brand Awareness Services for IT Vendors
    Providers may reach our IT executive audience through our Corporate Membership and advertising programs.
    
    

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• Members

Membership is primarily at the corporate or department level.  The Club has 330 corporate members ranging from Mid-cap to Fortune 1000 companies, the top worldwide technology companies and major advisory firms. 

Following are the types of executives that the Club is designed for:

• Senior executives who manage the technology efforts for their entire company and their staff.   
• Corporate memberships are designed for enterprise level IT and business departments to provide IT staff with a reasonably priced approach to keeping up to date with the relevant topics from their peers.
• Functional head or department heads and their staff who want to explore how to utilize technology better for their area. 
• Technology providers who want to get involved, expand their reach and grow their network of qualified executives.
• Senior executives from advisory firms with a business technology focus.

Following is a sample list representing both enterprise and provider members:

Amsted Rail Advanced Group Alberto-Culver Arc Worldwide Baker & McKenzie British Consulate Business Objects CA CDW CME Group Capgemini Cisco Classified Ventures ClearGauge CNA Insurance Crowe Chizek Cole Taylor Bank Compuware DePaul University EMC Ernst & Young Flexible Steel Lacing Co. Freeborn & Peters Forsythe Fujitsu Consulting Hewlett Packard IBM Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Illinois Tool Works

Juno Lighting, Inc. Katten Muchin Rosenman Keane Kimball Hill Homes Klein Tools KPMG, LLP Kraft Foods Lake Forest Graduate School Loyola University Magenic Technologies McGuire Woods LLP Meridian Group Microsoft Northern Trust Northwestern University Oracle Pampered Chef Premier Global Services RSA Security Robert Half Sayers SIRVA Solution Partners, Inc. Sun Microsystems The Revere Group USG Corp. Vienna Beef Westell Technologies, Inc. Wright College

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• Testimonials
  

  The Club prides itself in quality events and services.  Here is recent feedback from some of our participants at our events.  If you have a testimonial, please e-mail us. Thank you! 

  • " Thank you for the message and for the opportunity to network at the golf outing.  You and your staff did an outstanding job."
    Abe Barkin, Business Continuity & Planning, Senior Manager
    Allstate
    
    
  • "Just a quick note to say thank you. I have attended lots of golf outings and I have to say this was one of the smoothest. From The White Deer Run Golf Club to the lunch, to the group I was paired with, I couldn't have asked for a better day. Thanks for hosting me."
    Mead (Skip) Lasher, Manager Computer Operations
    Kimball Hill Homes
    
    
  • "I attended because of my involvement with business continuity at the county level. I look at it from a broader perspective than just IT, though. This event was very informative, though, and I learned a lot from it. I was afraid it might be too technical for me, but I was pleasantly surprised and walked away with useful information and knowledge."
    Kathy Schwei, Emergency Management
    Waukesha County Emergency Management
    
    
  • "I thought the IT Risk Management Program yesterday was very informative truly learning what IT professionals real concerns are today and what they deal with day to day. David Nolan did an outstanding job with his presentation along with being the panel mediator.

    Network security is big concern for all businesses, many of which will do there best to protect internal as well as external attacks, but there is all ways these risks can cause sever financial impact's to there companies bottom lines.

    I do risk management work with IT related companies assisting with internal controls, contracts and providing insurance protection for companies that in cure financial these losses. What I picked up during the program I hope to be able to put to use assisting existing clients and prospects."
    Bob Simon, Technology Specialist
    Technology Risk Management

  • "I thought it was a great seminar, the speakers were fantastic and the presentations were very relevant. I would definitely consider attending again. I would be interested in learning more about membership in the club."
    Steve Pincsak, Technical Project Manager
    Resurrection Health Care
    
    
  • "One of my projects this year has been to review our IT model and adjust for our changing organization. I found the seminar very rewarding in that the discussion and presentations added credence to the steps I had taken. I also now have some excellent resources for networking when I have questions going forward. I was quite pleased to strike up a conversation with another participant who might be able to assist me with metrics! It was a value-added event for me!"
    Carole A. Long, Vice-President of Information Systems

    Flexible Steel Lacing Company
    
    
  • "I attended the disaster recovery conference a few weeks back. I wanted to convey my high regard for the event. As a disaster recovery provider, we are continually looking to enhance our service with quality partnerships and provide our customers the latest in industry trends. The conference struck the appropriate balance between content and networking opportunities. Please keep me abreast of other regional events that you will be hosting."
    John Buzzone

    Atlas Digital Solutions
    
    
  • "Thank you for the great afternoon. We were pleasantly surprised at the quality of the Technology Executives Club presentation!"
    Dave Ziffer, VP Technology
    HELTHE Corporation
     
  • "It was my first meeting since joining the Technology Executives Club and I was very impressed by the presentations and the honest dialogue between business plan presenters and panel.  I learned so much ..."
    Chris Jostes, President
    USLocal
    
    
  • "The organization is stellar. The content, the logistics the format and the openness of this group is second to none."
    Jon Colesby
    West Monroe Partners
     
  • "I had to write you and the other masterminds behind yesterday's event to congratulate you. I have attended many such meetings here in Chicago and elsewhere and found them to be primarily a waste of time. Yesterday's event was a an exception to that rule.  You all did an incredible job with content, structure, presenters - and it drew some outstanding people too.
    
    Thank you so much for all the effort and thought that went into the event. I will certainly attend more ... Great job!!"
    Sarah Nelson
    Self Reliance Society, LLC
    Intellecap Partners, LLC
     
  • "Yesterday's seminar was extremely useful!"
    Ravi Chandran, President
    Binary Machines, Inc.
     
  • "I was very impressed with the event today - how did you get so many speakers?  You've certainly done a phenomenal job putting the Club together and I think it will get better every year.  We certainly don't live in a boring marketplace, and what better way to find out what's going to keep it exciting than events like ours."
    John Kennedy
    Kennedy Consulting Group, Inc.
    

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• How to Join
  Please register for the newsletter and sign up for a Corporate Membership.
  
  
  • Register for the Newsletter
    If you haven't signed up for the newsletter, please register now to join our mailing list.
    
    
  • Join as A Corporate Member
    The corporate membership is designed for both IT executives and IT providers and influencers who want to utilize our education and/or marketing programs. Please go to our membership page for complete information.