3.10.2008 - 02:30pm ET

(CSRwire) NEW YORK, NY - March 10, 2008 - The March 9 episode of CNBC's "American Greed" showed former WorldCom VP Cynthia Cooper blowing the whistle that brought CEO Bernie Ebbers and CFO Scott Sullivan to justice for stealing billions from shareholders. On March 27, over 200 top Corporate Responsibility practitioners, providers and influencers will hear Cynthia Cooper's story live at the CRO Conference at NYC prestigious Union League Club and get a signed copy of her new book, "Extraordinary Circumstances." Registration is limited to 250, and conference organizers urge attendees to register online soon at www.thecro.com/conferences.

Cooper is joined as CRO Conference Keynote by Andy Bryant, Chief Administrative Officer of Intel, awarded the coveted #1 rank in CRO's ninth-annual 100 Best Corporate Citizens list. Cooper and Bryant are among 22 headline-grabbing speakers on the one-day program on a program that features several 100 Best list companies including #2 Eaton. In recent days, CRO's 100 Best list has received massive press coverage from Marketwatch.com, MSNBC.com, Business Week, Fox News, and over 50 daily newspapers.

Rounding out the top 10 of the 100 Best were Nike Inc. (No. 3), Deere & Co. (No. 4), Genentech Inc. (No. 5), Corning Inc. (No. 6), Humana Inc. (No. 7), Bank of America Corp. (No. 8), ITT Corp. (No. 9) and PG&E Corp. (No. 10).

"The CRO Conference is where the $37 billion Corporate Responsibility gathers to learn the state-of-the-art in governance, compliance and sustainability performance," says CRO Magazine Publisher and CRO Conference Chair Jay Whitehead. "The 2008 Spring conference will shine a bright light on the WorldCom tragedy as seen through Cynthia Cooper's eyes, and this year's 100 Best Corporate Citizens, the companies that set the pace for everyone else."

Rounding out its coverage of the list and all its attendant issues, the March 27 CRO Conference will also feature a session entitled "Presidential Debate: 100 Best Corporate Citizens and Other Rankings-Do They Matter?" Intel's VP Suzanne Fallender, Eaton's VP Environment Safety Health Joe Wolfsberger, Mark Bateman from IW Financial, the list's creator, will join that news-making panel.

The 2008 list marks the 100Best Corporate Citizens' ninth year in publication. And the Spring CRO Conference is the 4th in that event's history.

For more details about the CRO Conference program, visit www.thecro.com/conferences, and for CRO's 100 Best Corporate Citizens 2008, the methodology and CRO magazine, visit www.thecro.com.

About The CRO

CRO is the only membership media platform for Corporate Responsibility practitioners, and the professional service providers and non-profit influencers that serve them. The CRO publishes the 20,000-subscriber 'CRO' Magazine and 200,000+ subscriber TheCRO.com, bi-weekly e-newsletters, webinars, and produces the four-time-annual CRO Conferences. With over 100 members including leading companies Sara Lee, Amtrak, IBM, Citigroup, Chubb Insurance, Mattel, Intel, Dell, Pepsi, Home Depot, Starbucks, Avon, Gap, State Street, Xerox, leading providers such as Deloitte, Baker & McKenzie, SAP, Hogan & Hartson, Edelman, Manning Selvage & Lee, Grant Thornton, Golin Harris, Ketchum, Cone, LRN, Integrity Interactive, and non-profits including Stanford University, Boston College, UCLA, and Harvard. Corporate membership information can be found at TheCRO.com, or by calling 732-476-6160.

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