XCEO, Inc., Network

The XCEO Network & Ambassadors

Networking is an important component of a successful personal career development plan. A well executed networking plan will provide opportunities to meet and engage in constructive dialog with persons who can influence your career advancement.

However, all networks are certainly not equal. There are many different ways to network with potential partners, customers and prospective employers, and they can vary quite significantly.

You can elect to attend a dinner, on one of the many "rubber chicken circuits", with several hundred other eager guests, seeking an opportunity, by chance, to meet someone important. On the other end of the scale, you could be invited to a private luncheon and meet someone who has a particular interest in your background.

At XCEO, Inc., we believe "Whom you know is often far less important than who knows you"! We work to balance both approaches.

XCEO Ambassadors

At XCEO, Inc., we also believe extreme personal leadership (XPL) is the foundation for success. In our pursuit of excellence, we seek to identify individuals who substantially demonstrate our philosophy. These individuals represent our passion for leadership. We affectionately refer to them as XPL Ambassadors.

Some of the persons included in our XPL Ambassador program are XCEO partners…others have no direct relationship with us. However, each person is recognized for achieving substantial professional success, and represents at least one of the fundamental principles of our extreme personal leadership values.

Ambassador	X-Principle They Embody
Bill LaRosa	Excess is Not Possible - #4
	Bill LaRosa is a seasoned senior executive with leadership experience ranging from Fortune 10 companies through grass-root start-up businesses. More specifically, he worked in a variety of global and executive assignments at General Electric (GE) during a 20-year association and was an executive with IBM for nearly ten years. He has also founded, or been associated with, several small technology companies.

Lois Juliber	Exceptional Idea Generation - #3
	Ms. Juliber, age 59, was a Vice Chairman of the Colgate-Palmolive Company (CP) from July 2004 until April 2005. She served as Colgate-Palmolive's Chief Operating Officer from March 2000 to July 2004, as its Executive Vice President - North America and Europe from 1997 until March 2000 and as President of Colgate North America from 1994 to 1997. Ms. Juliber is on the board of Goldman Sachs, E. I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company and Kraft Foods Inc. She is affiliated with certain non-profit organizations, including as Chairman of The MasterCard Foundation, a member of the board of Girls Incorporated, and a trustee of Wellesley College and Women's World Banking.

Ira Millstein	Exemplify the Standard - #11
	Ira Millstein is arguably the top lawyer in America in the practice of corporate governance. As a senior partner at the law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, where Millstein has worked since 1951, he has been so influential on the topic that not only did he rank number eight on The Directorship 100, a listing of the most influential people in corporate governance, but Yale School of Management named its Center on Corporate Governance after him.

Wendy Kopp	Excite Breakthrough Thinking - #2
	In 1990, Kopp, then 23, raised $2.5 million to get her teaching corps started. From that beginning came Teach for America (TFA), a nationwide organization that today boasts more than 5,000 member teachers, who work in communities all over the country and reach 440,000 kids. Some 12,000 veterans of Teach for America have continued their teaching careers, often providing leadership for troubled schools in their own communities.

Dwight Smith	Exploring With a Passion - #5
	Dwight Smith has 29 years of experience in the IT industry. His background includes sales, marketing, and management experience with IBM, P&L responsibility with Software Alternatives Incorporated and, for the past 18 years serving as CEO of Sophisticated Systems Incorporation, an IT consulting firm that he founded in 1990.

Ram Charan	Extracting the Truth - #6
	Ram Charan is a highly acclaimed business advisor, speaker and author. Ram Charan has coached some of the worlds' most successful CEOs. For 35 years, he has worked behind the scenes at companies like GE, KLM, Bank of America, DuPont, Novartis, EMC, 3M and Verizon.

William L. Stuckey	Expect What You Get - #10
	William (Bill) Stuckey is an Operating Partner with Arsenal Capital Partners, an industry-focused private equity company. His primary responsibility is to increase the value and support provided to each Arsenal portfolio business by their Information Technology Departments. Bill has a proven background as a world-class executive. He understands how to link the importance of IT into the fabric of the business enterprise. In this regard, he provides a rather unique set of experiences to the board. He understands the importance of linking the backroom to the boardroom.