No Longer Lonely at the Top

How to pick an executive networking group that's right for you.

Written byKerry Grens

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In 2006, Dan Eckert considered buying a small company. As the CEO of a medical manufacturing company called PolyRemedy, he thought that going into the home entertainment and automation sector might be a fun and rewarding change of pace. Before he made a purchase, he wanted input from people in the know who could give him an idea of what he might be getting into.

"By definition, the CEO doesn't have any peers at his company," says Thomas Hong, a former CEO and present owner of a networking group, Board of CEOs. Advice can be hard to come by, but several companies and organizations are filling that niche with networks of executives at the ready to support members with advice and information.

Three years ago, Eckert's former boss put him in contact with Vistage, an international CEO networking group. His local California network has 15 to 20 CEOs from a ...

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Meet the Author

Kerry Grens
Kerry served as The Scientist’s news director until 2021. Before joining The Scientist in 2013, she was a stringer for Reuters Health, the senior health and science reporter at WHYY in Philadelphia, and the health and science reporter at New Hampshire Public Radio. Kerry got her start in journalism as a AAAS Mass Media fellow at KUNC in Colorado. She has a master’s in biological sciences from Stanford University and a biology degree from Loyola University Chicago.
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