Membership 2009 Visualized

European Professional Womens Network has five main categories of membership: (1) Corporate (2) Members (3) Honorary (4) MBA Students (5) Staff. Each one of these designations is centrally defined at the Federation level for all of the affiliated networks.

Now-a-days membership in an organization is fairly fluid, in that we have a “rolling admissions” process. There is no fixed “apply by” date – so the membership database is constantly being updated. For the purposes of this data analysis – a capture of the membership data was taken in November 2009. Some of the data has previously been described in the December Newsletter article.

Amsterdam’s membership in 2009 totaled approximately 303 members and is distributed amongst the five categories.

We come from 36 different countries (43 if you include our second affiliation – dual citizenships). A representative distribution in percentages of those reporting data is show below. 214 of our 303 members are included in the following diagram:

Slightly more folks report their nationality as compared to their year of birth. Age is under reported in our database, however the distribution of reported ages is as follows:

Corporate Sponsors of the European Professional Womens Network in 2009 included the pan-european and global companies: Orange, IE, Deloitte, Coca-Cola, Sodexo, Mercer, AON, Alcatel-Lucent, Mexx, BNP Paribas. Their financial and in kind donations to the network in the form of memberships, venues, speakers, and technologies are extremely important to sustain the organization and to augment the programming. In Amsterdam the 51 individuals making up the Corporate Member category are distributed as follows:

The distribution of participating partners is known to vary by city. This data applies only to Amsterdam in the 4th quarter of 2009.

Below we would also like to look a bit more in detail into the composition of each of the membership categories.

Here we see that the “sponsoring” Corporate members (51) are one third of all participating members from large corporations (144) so actually this figure could also be drawn as follows:

The majority of our Members find the EuropeanPWN network “on their own” – this is to say, they are not officially corporate members, they are not students, they are international and Dutch born business women looking to network “cross” B2B borders. Of these Members, nearly half of them work at companies that are considered to be large corporations (90) but participate as individual members and not as part of a corporate sponsorship program. There are also compositional differences in the corporate members from sponsoring organizations and from corporate members that find us by their own affiliations.

As you can see all of our Executive VP's and C-level members come from our "regular" membership

One third of our total members (93) direct, own, or work in smaller companies and enterpreneurships. In this “Independent” category 20 % are business owners/directors, 15 % experts (doctors, lawyers, professors, engineers), and 51 % are consultants and/or coaches.

Honorary Members number three in Amsterdam. Our Honorary members are chosen by a unanimous vote of the Board of Directors. Amsterdam honors founding member Agnes Benjamin, Advisory Board member Annette Nijs and Pauline van der Meer Mohr. Josephine Green one of our past (and founding) members of WIN in Amsterdam, is Senior Director of
Trends and Strategy at Philips Design she is an Honorary Member to the Federation from it’s beginnings in 2005.

MBA Student Members. Amsterdam has a strategic alliance with Erasmus University and offers memberships to students in the Rotterdam School of Management and MBAOne programs. This alliance in addition to membership also includes supporting joint programming initiatives. In addition to drawing upon our membership for speakers, panel participants, and guest lecturers, MBA students also take advantage of our mentoring program and publications series.

The last category – is the “staff” designation. This designation at the moment is reserved for the Board of Directors but other times in recent history has also included non-board positions such as Mentoring Coordinator, Webmaster etc. Amsterdam is organized 100% by volunteer efforts. We had no paid staff positions in 2009. Our Board of Directors in 2009 included: Rieke Smakman, Lucia Lloyo,Tip Atkins, Camilla Bjorkqvist, Judith Dieleman (first half of the year), Caroline van Leuven (second half of the year), Clara Ko, Katharina Pohl, and Anna Farrenkopf