CEO Forum

The French-American Foundation - France is pleased to launch a new event, the CEO Forum. This forum is a serie of meetings which will become an annual rendezvous to encounter a successful and innovative American CEO with a demonstrated interest in transatlantic relations. A well-known business journalist will interview the CEO Guest of Honor who will be invited to share his formula for success and his vision for his company in candid and convivial exchange with an audience of senior French and American business executives and personalities over dinner.

For this premier event we are pleased to announce that Mr. James Goodnight, Founder and CEO of SAS Institute Inc. has accepted our invitation to be our first CEO Forum Guest of Honor on June 23 in Paris at the Maison des Polytechniciens.

	Jim Goodnight is the Founder and CEO of the largest and most successful private software company, SAS, Institute. With $3 billion annual net profits, SAS, Institute makes analytics and business intelligence software and employs 11,000 people worldwide. SAS is also renowned for its corporate culture, which has made it a fixture on Fortune's "Best Places to Work" list.
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