The FENG Story
The Financial Executives Networking Group was founded by Donald J. Gonsalves in 1991. As a senior financial executive, over 50 at the time of his job search, Don recognized the need for financial executives to have a forum to share job opportunities and experiences.
In 1995 Don began an assignment in Saudi Arabia and Chairmanship of the group passed to Edward J. Devlin.
Matt Bud, Chairman
In December 1996, Ed began an assignment in Brazil and asked Matthew R. Bud (Bio), a Managing Partner of The Financial Executives Consulting Group, LLC to Chair the networking group.
Among the first to recognize the power of the Internet as a communication tool, Matt has grown The FENG from a Westport, Connecticut based organization with only 64 members to its current membership of over 29,000 spread across the entire United States and Internationally, all connected on a daily basis through outbound e-mail. Over 1,500 pages of senior level job leads and career advice are published every month.
The FENG is a very senior level "circle of friends." Members have typically been Chief Financial Officers, Controllers, and Vice Presidents of Finance, Treasury, Tax or Mergers & Acquisition, as well as other financial disciplines.
Featured in the January 21, 2003 edition of The Wall Street Journal, The FENG is a nationally recognized organization for senior financial professionals and is also the largest networking group of its type in the entire world. Through Matt’s efforts, members of this “circle of friends” are so well respected in the search community that all of the major firms contact him when they have appropriate searches.
The basic purpose of our organization is to create an opportunity for you as a senior financial professional to network, share job leads and friendship with your peers in the financial community.
Let me share this thought with you: Life is about making new friends, helping old friends and feeling needed. Are any other explanations required?
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