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November Meeting Information - Mark your calendar

Topic: "Leveraging Technology To Do More With Less - For CFOs"
Speaker: Jackie Bassett, CEO BT Industrials, Inc
Place: McCormick & Schmicks, 2575 E. Camelback Road
Time: 11:30am Networking/Check-In -- 12:00-1:15pm Lunch and Presentation
Date: Monday, November 17, 2008
Cost: $35 includes lunch and 1 hour of CPE

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About the Presentation: "Leveraging Technology To Do More With Less"

The latest Gartner Executive Programs survey indicates that the top 10 business priorities and the top 10 technology priorities are not squaring up. No one is less surprised by the results of this report than the Chief Financial Officer.

According to the Gartner survey the top 10 business priorities are:

• Business process improvement
• Controlling enterprise-wide operating costs
• Attract, retain and grow customer relationships
• Improve effectiveness of enterprise workforce
• Revenue growth
• Improving competitiveness
• Using intelligence in products and services
• Deploy new business capabilities to meet strategic goals
• Enter new markets, new products or new services
• Faster innovation

Come join your financial executive peers for an enlightening luncheon seminar. Get your questions answered by a subject matter expert. Be prepared for some great dialogue.

About Speaker: Jackie Bassett, CEO of BT Industrials, Inc.

Jackie Bassett is founder and CEO of BT Industrials Inc., where she helps CEOs and CSOs of global 500 companies integrate security into their business strategies and processes. Her expertise is in closing the "Business-to-IT-strategy" gap by identifying ways to turn problems into profits.

She was one of the first 100 employees at Netscreen Security; which started in 1997, successfully IPO'd in 2001, then was acquired by Juniper Networks in 2004 for $4Billion.

As subject matter expert she has published many articles in Security Technology & Design, Security Magazine, IT Audit Magazine, Director's Monthly and IT Compliance. She recently co-authored her second book with Dan Rothman of DISA. "A Seat At The Table For CEOs and CSOs: Driving Profits, Corporate Performance and Business Agility".

Jackie is a frequent guest speaker at conferences and seminars, most recently presenting at ISACA, the Federal CIO Executive Council, SecureWorld and at an international series of events for a consortium of CEOs & CFOs. Her background is in investment banking having worked for nearly a decade at State Street International as Assistant Treasurer for Capital Markets - Eurodollar Trading.

As an active member of Business Executives for National Security, Bassett works extensively with CEOs and CSOs on strategic planning issues specializing in innovation strategies. She holds an MBA from Babson College and a private pilot's license. She can be reached at: jackieb@btind.com

Learn more about BT Industrials, Inc at: www.btind.com