Now is a great time to join the ESD Alliance. In fact, the timing hasn’t been better. Membership increased by 20% over last year’s numbers. We’re in the midst of planning our fall schedule that will include a few popular events, such as the Phil Kaufman Award ceremony and dinner, always a crowd pleaser and terrific networking opportunity. By joining now, you and your employees can attend many of our fall networking events at no additional cost.
The ESD Alliance isn’t only about networking and educational events. In fact, we have quite a few largely unheralded programs that our members consider of great value. We break them into five additional categories –– market information, risk management, growth and efficiency, emerging companies and industry voice.
For example, the Market Statistics Service (MSS) is a mainstay among them and is part of the market information category. Quarterly revenue data is collected from contributing companies and aggregated by an outside accounting firm to ensure no individual company data is disclosed. Members receive a quarterly report with excellent, up-to-date information and trends for determining total available market and so much more. The driver of this 20-year program is Wally Rhines from Mentor, a Siemens Business, which should give you a hint to its importance and relevance.
In more ways than I can count, the Export Committee is an effective and invaluable resource to member companies for risk management and avoidance. It represents all of them with a unified voice in Washington, D.C., on export licensing and compliance issues. I recently blogged about the help it gave to two new members Helic (http://bit.ly/2vesFGT) and SoC Solutions, now Silvaco (http://bit.ly/2fmvcuJ).
