Co-Founder Of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Releases Podcast On
Leadership In People, Planet And Profit

RALEIGH, N.C. – The 2010 N.C. CEO Forum (www.ncceoforum.com), an invitation-only business event scheduled for Tuesday, May 18 at Marriott City Center in Raleigh, has announced the release of a podcast with one of this year’s keynote speakers, Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc.  In the podcast, Greenfield offers insight into how he and Ben Cohen launched the Ben & Jerry’s three-part mission for their company, and how it aligns with the N.C. CEO Forum’s theme of “Leadership in People, Planet and Profit.”  The podcast also discusses how businesses can re-organize in order to focus their strategies to incorporate the Triple Bottom Line, and what Greenfield sees as the future for socially responsible business.  To download Greenfield’s podcast, visit http://bit.ly/bGx37C.

State’s Top Business Leaders To Discuss “Triple Bottom Line”
And Green Initiatives May 18 In Raleigh

RALEIGH, N.C. – The 2010 N.C. CEO Forum (www.ncceoforum.com), an invitation-only business event scheduled for Tuesday, May 18 at Marriott City Center in Raleigh, has announced the lineup for speakers and panelists at this year’s event.  In addition to keynotes by Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, founders of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc. (www.benandjerrys.com), and Chuck Swoboda, CEO of and chairman of Durham, N.C.-based Cree, Inc. (www.cree.com), the event will feature addresses from Bill Buckner, president of Bayer CropScience and Jim Westlake, CEO of RBC Bank. 

State’s Top Business Leaders To Discuss
“Triple Bottom Line” May 18 In Raleigh

RALEIGH, N.C. – The 2010 N.C. CEO Forum (www.ncceoforum.com), an invitation-only business event scheduled for Tuesday, May 18 at Marriott City Center in Raleigh, has announced that the event will feature a keynote address by Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, founders of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc. (www.benandjerrys.com), a store-front venture the duo built into a $300 million ice cream empire by harnessing the power of social responsibility and creative management. Cohen and Greenfield will provide insight into the role of leadership as it applies to the triple bottom line: people, planet and profit, which is central to the event’s theme, “The Triple Bottom Line: 21st Century Leadership in People, Planet and Profit."

Attendees at the 2010 N.C. CEO Forum will also hear a keynote address by Chuck Swoboda, the CEO and chairman of Durham, N.C.-based Cree, Inc. (www.cree.com). Cree is setting the stage to obsolete the incandescent light bulb through the use of energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly LED lighting technology. In 2009, the company was awarded $39 million in tax credits as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support its investment to build energy-efficient LED lighting.

Event For North Carolina Business Leaders To Feature
Deans Of Local Universities In Addition To MBA Student Twitter Contest

RALEIGH, N.C. – The 2010 N.C. CEO Forum (www.ncceoforum.com), an invitation-only business event scheduled for Tuesday, May 18 at Marriott City Center in Raleigh, has announced that it will feature a “CEOs of Tomorrow” contest that will run in conjunction with the event’s newly launched Twitter account. Open to undergraduate and graduate students from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, N.C. State University College of Management, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School and Wake Forest University Schools of Business, the “CEOs of Tomorrow” contest challenges local students to submit their most interesting and timely questions for two of this year’s keynote speakers, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, founders of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc. Questions should be based around the theme of the 2010 N.C. CEO Forum: The Triple Bottom Line: 21st Century Leadership in People, Planet and Profit.

Lew Ebert Shares Insight On Chamber’s Involvement In
2010 Event For Business Leaders

RALEIGH, N.C. – The 2010 N.C. CEO Forum (www.ncceoforum.com), an invitation-only business event scheduled for Tuesday, May 18 at Marriott City Center in Raleigh, has announced the release of a podcast discussing the N.C. Chamber’s involvement with the 2010 N.C. CEO Forum. Lew Ebert, president of the N.C. Chamber, discusses why the Chamber decided to join as a host of this year’s forum, as well as how the N.C. CEO Forum and N.C. Chamber support each other’s mission statements.

The 2010 N.C. CEO Forum event will be hosted by Summit Performance Systems (www.summit-performance.com), the N.C. Chamber (www.ncchamber.net) and RDA Recruiters (www.rdarecruiters.com). The event will feature keynote addresses from Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, founders of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc. and Chuck Swoboda, CEO and chairman of Cree Inc. The theme for this year’s forum will be “Triple Bottom Line: 21st Century Leadership in People, Planet and Profit.”