Founded in 2004, EuroCIO provides CIOs with a platform for sharing best practices and raising awareness of key IT issues. By bringing CIOs under a European-wide umbrella, EuroCIO gives them a mouthpiece to voice their collective position to the main IT suppliers and European regulatory authorities, to academic institutions and the broader user community.

In fact, the combined total of the IT budgets of our members and partners’ members is currently estimated at more than € 100 billion. This also gives EuroCIO a true legitimacy in terms of representation.

EuroCIO is governed by an Advisory Board and managed by an operating team. The Advisory Board is made up of two representatives from the EuroCIO management team and a representative from each of the following seven partner national CIO bodies:

• CIO Forum Belgian Business (Belgium),
• CIGREF (France),
• CIOcolloquium (Germany),
• VISZ (Hungary),
• CIO Platform (The Netherlands),
• CIO Forum (Sweden),
• Corporate IT Forum (UK).
• AICA (Italy).

The Board also consists of CIOs with no national CIO body affiliation.

The aims of the Advisory Board are to define the Network’s content and strategy, establish clear and transparent rules and maintain an ethical code of conduct. The operating team is in charge of managing the network and services on a day-to-day basis while a handful of highly experienced consultants lend their expertise to the network’s activities.