NEW YORK- July 10, 2007- The CRO today announced that its one-day CRO Conference lineup will include a keynote from Fortune 500(R) Chairman & CEO, Murray Martin of Pitney Bowes, Inc., (#395 on the Fortune 500(R)), a $5.8 billion global leader of integrated mail and document management solutions. Mr. Martin has strategic and operational responsibility and oversight focused on sustaining increased shareholder, customer and employee value.

"Pitney Bowes has been a fixture on the '100 Best Corporate Citizens' list for 8 years running and Murray Martin knows what it takes to deliver both superior corporate performance and superior corporate responsibility," said Jay Whitehead, CEO of The CRO and Publisher of 'CRO' Magazine. "Pitney Bowes ranks highly with an overwhelming number of stakeholders because Murray Martin has made CR among his top priorities."

The one-day CRO Conference will be held on Wednesday, September 12 at the Union League Club located in downtown Chicago.

Now in its second year, the one-day CRO Conference features 17 world-class speakers on topics from stakeholder engagement to sustainability to SarBox to supply chain.

In other sessions, the conference will include a special multi-level company session with a board member, a senior marketing communications expert, and manufacturing executive from BASF discussing their global sustainability efforts-from board room to execution. Additional sessions include a SOX Shootout Panel with experts in Sarbanes-Oxley facing off to discuss the pros and cons, the CO2 Debate featuring proponents and opponents of carbon offsets, one-on-one Q&As with thought leaders in GRC, CSR and citizenship, and our Presidential Debate, with corporate responsibility service providers, consultants and advisors.

The entire agenda can be found at www.TheCRO.com by clicking on "CRO Conferences" at the top right.

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The CRO is a membership media platform for corporate practitioners, professional service providers and non-profit influencers in Corporate Responsibility. The CRO publishes the 20,000-subscriber 'CRO' Magazine, produces the twice-annual CRO Conferences, www.theCRO.com, bi-weekly e-newsletters, webinars and video events. With over 100 members including leading companies IBM, Mattel, Intel, Dell, Pepsi, Home Depot, Starbucks, Avon, Gap, State Street, Lexmark, Darden Restaurants, leading providers such as Deloitte, Baker & McKenzie, Hogan & Hartson, Grant Thornton, Golin Harris, Ketchum, Cone, LRN, Integrity Interactive, and non-profits including Stanford University, UCLA, and Harvard. Membership information can be found at TheCRO.com, or by calling 646-213-0067 ext 107.

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Launched August 1, 2006 by business media veterans Jay Whitehead, CEO and Michael Connor, Editor and Publisher, The CRO is the leading corporate membership media platform in corporate responsibility. The CRO's media products include CRO Magazine, TheCRO.com, CRO Conference and webinars. The CRO covers governance, compliance, ethics, corporate social responsibility, investor relations, citizenship, socially responsible investing, sustainability, philanthropy and related topics. Members include 100+ corporations including IBM, Pepsi, Citigroup, Avon, Mattel, Washington Mutual, Stanford, Harvard, UCLA, Columbia, OCEG, LRN, OPI, and others. Headquartered in New York City and Roseland, NJ. More information at www.The CRO.com.

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