The CMO Council is dedicated to high-level knowledge exchange, thought leadership and personal relationship building among senior marketing and brand decision-makers. Founding members include executives from worldwide leading technology  companies such  as 1-800-Contacts, 3Com, AMD, Akamai, AOL/Time Warner, Applied Materials, ARM, Borland, Brio Software, Cisco , Computer Associates,  Dell Computers, Docent, EDS, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, Hughes Global, Hyperion, I-Log,  information Builders, Intuit, Iomega, JDA Software, Lucent, Manugistics, Mercury Interactive, Microsoft,   Novare, NTT-Verio, Novell Inc., PaymentOne, Phoenix Technologies, Polycom, Quantum, RSA Security, Saba Software, Salesforce.com, Siebel Systems, Siemens, Sybase, Symantec, Talaris, TDK Systems, Terayon, Unica Corp., Veridiem, Veritas, Verity, Xerox, Yahoo! among many others.