Press Release

CEO Worldwide presents its first franchise partners

The first three franchise partners are:
Martin Bylsma for Netherlands
Samuel Martinson for West Africa
Dan C. Renson for Belgium and Luxembourg

Paris, 10 October 2007 - CEO Worldwide, specialised in International Executive Recruitment and Interim Management presents the first three franchise partners who joined the new international franchise network since the launch of the CEO Worldwide franchise programme in June earlier this year.

Each franchisee is in charge of a defined territory and contributes to CEO Worldwide's development, identifying new clients and supporting them with their candidate search. CEO Worldwide provides corporate support (training, marketing, advertising,...) and back office support for candidate search and selection as well as administrative, contractual and financial management.

Patrick Mataix, founder of CEO Worldwide, says « I am very satisfied with the response we received since the launch of the franchise programme in June. Now we will concentrate on managing a franchise network that perfectly masters the challenges of International executive recruitment. For us, this is the ideal way to bring more proximity to our clients and to support them best with specific issues connected to their development.»

Samuel Kofi Martinson
Territory: West Africa
Career track: Samuel's experience includes consulting to import and export firms in Ghana, executive search and placement services, and representing international companies in Ghana and West African markets.
Why he joined CEO Worldwide: "CEO Worldwide is building an International network of franchises that can serve its clients worldwide. The client needs only one contact person for his global recruitment needs ­ this is a very exciting concept."

Dan C. Renson
Territory: Belgium and Luxembourg
Career track: Dan is an experienced entrepreneur with an amazing international track record in several small, medium and large enterprises, often being part of their executive board.
Why he joined CEO Worldwide: "After so many years of international experience CEO Worldwide offers me the perfect framework to use my abilities as practical integrating entrepreneur with large multicultural views and the capacity to find synchronizing talents".

Martin Bylsma
Territory: Netherlands
Career track: Martin followed a successful career in an international sales & marketing environment, holding key positions with companies like TNT and Amway. He also worked with different executive recruitment companies.
Why he joined CEO Worldwide: "My late experience in Executive Recruitment convinced me to fully move my career in this direction. I looked round and found that CEO Worldwide's Franchise offer was the most convincing and transparent on the market."

The franchise programme targets entrepreneurs who whish to develop an executive recruitment company specialised in international temporary or permanent assignments. The typical franchisee is a senior manager with a track record in one or several sectors of industry or services in Europe, Asia or North America. He knows the local VCs and Human Resources managers in multinational companies. He speaks fluently English and has a good knowledge of the international working culture. He also has significant experience in recruiting international executive managers through his previous positions.

About CEO Worldwide (www.ceo-worldwide.com)
CEO Worldwide's solution Management on demand creates a new environment, that enables a flexible and reactive cooperation between companies, share holders and top executives in an international context. CEO Worldwide offers top executive recruitment solutions, holding a pool of over 5600 iCEO certified top executives available with a minimum of 15 years of professional experience, covering 158 countries in Europe, Asia and the US. The recruitment process takes about three weeks, the executives can be contracted on a permanent or temporary basis.