"It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for
  their presentation is provided or available." �        �Thomas Mann, 1896

Why be a Member of The Business Forum?

The Business Forum Association was founded in 1987 to help us to subsidize the growth and operations of The Business Forum, and to allow us to run our programs without being completely dependent upon the Sponsors of Business Forum Events for a profit to pay for the growth of our organization, a situation that we felt might hinder our impartiality.. 

The existence of The Business Forum Association and the fees it has generated each year from 1987 on, have enabled The Business Forum to grow from one meeting every three months in Los Angeles, California back in 1982, to an ongoing program throughout the Pacific States of America from the Canadian border to the Mexican border, Seattle in the north to San Diego in the south.

In 1987 we set out to build ourselves into an institution that had the respect and trust of decision makers length of the West Coast and to provide them with a reliable source of expert and unbiased information that would help them better contribute to the success of themselves, their organizations and the Pacific States of America as a region. 

Now that our activities and White Papers are available on a global basis, by way of the Internet, we have gained members, sponsors and supporters on six continents. Thank you.

Membership is what makes The Business Forum work.

If we had to rely entirely upon sponsors to fund The Business Forum we would would be out of business in six months, or we would merely be an organization that organized luncheons, conferences and seminars. What many people fail to understand, including many of the guests at our events, is that it is only by the income support of our members that we have been allowed to grow as we have over the last quarter of a century.

In a world that it seems has become continuously more self serving and greed oriented, it is wonderful recognition of what we are trying to do, to know that so many individuals continue to believe in our cause and what we do for the business community, to the point that they will continue to support us, not just by attending our events, but by going on to become fee paying members in ever growing numbers.  Today we even have supporting Members in States and Countries where we have never organized an event.

The fact is that the controlling factor of our membership base has always, if you will, kept us honest to our cause, and more importantly, it has provided us with an irreplaceable network of contacts throughout the economy, in business, government and academia internationally,  that we are able to draw upon to bring together the right people, at the right time and in the right place, for our events.  It has also allowed us to be able to expand and build our presence, by way of the Internet, across the world.

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Our Members Include Executives from such Organizations as:

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APL Limited
Archdiocesan Youth Employment Services
Austrian Trade Commission
Bay Alarm Company
Bobrick Washroom Company
British Telecom Infonet Corporation
California State University, Los Angeles
CBS Broadcasting
City National Bank
County of Los Angeles - Health Services
CSE Insurance Group
Cyvergence Corporation
Del Monte Foods Corporation
DHR
DuProUSA/Trans-Pacific USA
Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising
Fremont Group
Gordon W Moore & Associates
IBM Rational Software Group
E-Novative, Inc.
Law Office of Ronald E. Monard
Navigant International Inc.
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
Paul Hastings Janoskvy & Walker
Sharp Market Intelligence
Stuart F Cooper Company
Swinerton Incorporated
The Aerospace Corporation
Tricipher, Inc.
US Department of Commerce
Walt Disney Imagineering
Zeus Technology, Inc.

This is only a representative example of our Supporters

Our Supporters Testimonials include: