Verne is founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) and chaired for fifteen years EO’s premiere CEO program, the “Birthing of Giants,” and WEO’s “Advanced Business” program, both held at MIT. Founder and CEO of Gazelles, Inc., Verne has spent the past 27 years educating entrepreneurs and executives of growing firms. The “Growth Guy” syndicated columnist, Verne is the author of Mastering the Rockefeller Habits which is endorsed by over 100 CEOs of mid-size companies and is published in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and a half dozen other languages. Verne chairs Malaysia’s “Taipan: Making of Asian Giants” executive program; Australia’s annual “Growth Summit” and is launching similar programs throughout Asia and Europe. He also chaired the prestigious “Top 40 Under 40” Leadership program for Canada.