January 19, 2010: Pre-Dinner Forum and Dinner Presentation

Pre-Dinner Forum: 4:30-5:30 PM

Topic: Books & Subscriptions - A Surprising Spend
Speaker: David Rifkin, Executive Vice President
Sponsor: cSubs

Books, subscriptions and online content are high-volume purchases that add up surprisingly ­ and yet can be easily controlled and reduced with a minimum of internal effort.

During this presentation a variety of useful topics will be discussed, including:

- Optimizing "Knowledge" Spend - providing users with flexibility while centralizing the purchase, providing you with a clear overview and reducing maverick spend. Using detailed reports that enable you to evaluate, make informed purchase decisions and gain control over costs and spending behavior.

- Improving Efficiencies - providing a single expert point of contact for all your subscription needs, significantly reducing staff time & costs spent maintaining supplier relationships and performing subscription related activities. By working with your company's procurement platform further efficiencies are made reducing both soft and hard costs.

- Increase Value for Money - identifying opportunities to route and share, gleaning maximum value from every dollar spent on these materials, monitoring usage and ensuring compliance with publisher agreements, maximizing site license usage and cost reductions.

cSubs helps companies save time and money on their information spend, including magazines and professional journals, newspapers, online content, books, memberships, software licenses, databases and market data. A woman-owned company with over two decades of experience in the information industry, cSubs provides companies with customized solutions to control, reduce spend, and optimize client satisfaction through various technologies and a highly evolved customer service team.

cSubs provides best-in-class solutions for all aspects of subscription and knowledge resource management: searching, ordering, routing and sharing, renewals, automated transfers and cancellations, approval workflow and more, all managed and maintained through a state of the art desktop service or through your company's procurement software such SAP, Ariba or your own internal purchasing system.

cSubs understands that buying subscriptions, journals, databases, magazines and electronic resources is just one of the things your procurement office does, and at the same time those involved know it can be a surprisingly complex, time-consuming and expensive process. cSubs for Procurement Managers simplifies the complexities, providing you with spend control and a high quality service. We help you maximize the return on your investment in time and money, helping you achieve the objectives of your internal cost reductions plan.

cSubs is a woman-owned company and certified by WBNEC. With over two decades of experience. We have gained the trust and loyalty of hundreds of businesses by providing professional, customized programs and a level of service we believe is unmatched in the industry.

In 2008, CSMS was recognized by Inc Magazine as one of the nation's fastest growing privately held firms, ranking #1051 on the 2008 Inc. 5000 list, and #85 in the Top 100 Businesses in the New York - Northern New Jersey - Long Island - Pennsylvania region. The company's 356 percent growth over three years surpasses by 22% the average three-year growth of all firms on the 2008 Inc. list.

David Rifkin has been Executive Vice President of cSubs and Corporate Subscription Services for almost 20 years. Prior to Corporate Subscriptions and cSubs, Mr. Rifkin was a founder and Senior Vice President of LoJack of New York/New Jersey Corporation, responsible for marketing a stolen vehicle recovery system linked to Federal and State Police crime computers and patrol cars located throughout the metropolitan area.

Before working on the LoJack project. Mr. Rifkin served in developmental marketing and advertising capacities at ATT and NYNEX Corporation, where he was directly involved in the nation's first launches of cellular service, and at Western Union Corporation, where he was responsible for promoting the company's largest and most prestigious telecommunications services. Mr. Rifkin earned his MBA With Distinction from New York University's Leonard Stern School of Business, and his B.Sc. from Temple University in Philadelphia.

Dinner Presentation: 6:00 PM

Topic: Taking the Training Wheels Off the Recovery
Speaker: Jonathan Basile, Vice President & Economist, Credit Suisse and Chair, ISM-New York Business Survey Committee

Wall Street says that the U.S. economic recovery has begun. Main Street will not be convinced until the job market recovers. A sustained decline in unemployment would bridge the gap between Main Street and Wall Street and take the training wheels off the recovery. Look for the all-clear signal to become evident in the first half of 2010.

Jonathan Basile is an economist based in the New York office of Credit Suisse, specializing in macroeconomic trends, data analysis and forecasting for the U.S. and Canada. He joined Credit Suisse in 2000 through the merger with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Before the merger, he worked as an economist with DLJ for two years, tracking the economies of the US, Canada, Japan and the United Kingdom. Prior to joining DLJ, he worked as a US economist with HSBC Securities for seven years. Mr. Basile received his BA in economics from Princeton University.

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