$50million ‘Facebook for Finance’ Launched
· $50 million ‘Facebook for Finance’ changes the way the Financial Services industry communicates
· Membership already includes CEOs and other senior executives from Barclays, HBOS, Goldman Sachs, Visa, ABN AMRO, and JPMorgan
· Site goes live 17th September with 20,000 members and is growing at a rate of five members every ten minutes
New York, London, XX September, 2008 – After a year of bad news, the financial services industry may finally have something to smile about. A new social networking site, MeettheBoss.com, is being launched exclusively for senior financial executives, and it aims to overhaul the way the financial community interacts.
MeettheBoss.com may incorporate networking technology more commonly used by the sons and daughters of CEOs but it offers a lot more than water-cooler gossip and widgets. The pre-launch membership of MeettheBoss.com, built over the past six months, is an industry who’s who of CIOs, CFOs and CEOs from over 1300 Financial Institutions. In addition to networking the site offers weekly interviews with industry leaders, such as Martin Davis, CIO for Wachovia, Kim Fournais, Co-CEO of Saxo Bank, and Peter Leukert, CIO at Commerzbank, which are webcast on the site’s dedicated channel. These are combined with live, moderated discussion groups, free video conferencing, IM and secure e-mail in one easy-to-use app.
MeettheBoss.com will be the first 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. Members can select a fellow executive, read their bio information and extensive career notes, and in two clicks can be on a video call to discuss common challenges.
In an age of financial upheaval this communication is more important than ever. Austin Adams, former CIO for JPMorgan Chase and current JPMorgan Board Member, says of MeettheBoss.com: “Every one of us as CIOs can be much more effective as individuals and as leaders if we take what I call a progressive / aggressive stance to dialogue with other CIOs.”
There is no cost to joining and membership is by application only. MeettheBoss.com is strictly for financial services executives to ensure a truly secure, open environment where they can learn from each other.
Spencer Green, Founder of MeettheBoss.com, says, “We are really excited by the take-up on membership, which we will close at 50,000. We currently have 20,000 members through invitation only; the next 30,000 will be through application over the next couple of months. We are seeing that this platform is exactly what the industry has been crying out for and, despite market uncertainty, we feel that the future for financial services – in networking terms at least – is looking very bright indeed.”
