Wayne's post on the accfo (whom I had never heard of) got me thinking about all of the
The "definitive" list of senior finance (CFO and senior FT&A execs) organizations in the U.S.
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I want to add Institute of
I'd like to add Finance Leaders Association. It's an online LinkedIn group for folk who are/have been in senior roles in finance,
It's free, it's meant to be a peer-to-peer networking forum, it's not focused on job search, rather on the larger goal of building a solid professional network.
FLA actively encourages its members to exploit the resources of Proformative.
See http://www.financeleaders.org/ and
http://www.linkedin.com/groupInvitation?gid=76069&sharedKey=5A05603E81CE
***If you are interested in starting a local networking breakfast like this one in your area, I'd be happy to share what/how we do things.
Other relevant groups ...
A free high-level CFO focused CFO Roundtable that meets quarterly in major US cities: http://www.cwcforoundtable.com/about-us/
The Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), an international organization with local chapters throughout the US that provide a very good networking environment for middle-market and PE backed company CFOs members and non-members welcome: www.acg.org
The Association of Chartered Accountants in the United States (ACAUS), the US face of the institutes of chartered accountants of Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, England & Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Local chapters throughout the US focused on helping members with networking including staying connected with fellow CAs, no membership fee but focused solely on chartered accountants who are current members of one of the above mentioned seven "home institutes" of chartered accountants who fund ACAUS to support their US resident members: www.acaus.org