Now, finance execs a click away Meet the Boss

Headquartered in Bristol, England and New York, USA, Meet the Boss is the first private community of senior financial executives, internationally. We have every major international finance institution, joining us. We have 20,000 members and the next 30,000 will be through application. The maximum membership will be limited to 50,000 members. We are not letting in management or consultant organisations within meet the boss. It is only for the finance executives.

There is no monetary gain from Meet the Boss. It has been championed as a key tool to bring the world out of this financial crisis. Meet the boss is the subsidiary of the GDS international. It is only for finance executives and we have every major finance institution signed up. Through video conferencing, through e-mail texting it will be the largest most effective solo desk for financial executives in the world

Why have we limited our total membership is because, in our research, we are comfortable, that there are only about 50, 000 finance executives, that we want. In our research we have found that there are approximately 50,000 C level finance executives around the world and this community will not entertain junior members. This community is strictly for C-level senior executives.

We are both based in Bristol, England and New York, but we have the membership from all over the globe such as Asia, South America, Middle East, America and Europe. Infact, we already have a totally global site.

We have at the moment we have many many applicants from India. Almost seventy-five percent of the applicants are rejected. India and China are very important markets in the world. There are lessons learnt from the credit crunch of the times. This is the biggest challenge before us, that in this financial climate we all need to communicate.

This site truly will provide an environment for technologists to discuss implementation, strategy, and common challenges. We are seeing that this platform is exactly what the industry has been crying out for.

What is so exciting is we can communicate between Hong Kong and London through the press of one button. You can video-conference with a fellow CIO, you can video- conference with a President, or a Vice-President of all the major financial institutions and banks in a totally private, no cost environment.

Every single week there will be video interviews with the top thought- and industry leaders, including Martin Davis, CIO for Wachovia, Kim Fournais, Co-CEO of Saxo Bank, and Peter Leukert, CIO at Commerzbank. The feedback has been incredible. We must learn from our mistakes and not put our heads in the sand.

Weekly interviews with industry leaders are webcast on the sites’ dedicated channel. These are combined with live, moderated discussion groups, video conferencing, IM and secure e-mail in one easy-to-use applications.

This is the only financial services networking tool to combine quick and secure video calls with IM, e-mail and SMS between members on one, simple interface: their profile page. Select an executive, read their bio information and extensive career notes, and in two clicks members can be on a video call to discuss common challenges.