Dear Business Leader:

How do leaders of the world's top performing companies drive consistent, profitable growth through product innovation?

Join us at Stage-Gate Summit '09 for a powerful exchange of cutting-edge ideas, discussion and learning with industry's best and brightest innovation leaders as we explore this critical topic. Discover how and why certain companies are achieving stellar organic growth results despite the numerous challenges and obstacles before them. Learn from 8 case studies handselected for their rich, practical and exemplary demonstrations of product leadership and best practices: Church & Dwight . Corning . Fresenius Medical Care . ICOM . ITT Industries . Johnson & Johnson . McKesson Provider Technologies and Procter & Gamble. We guarantee you will get tremendous value by listening to the stories of these champions.

This year in particular, we've witnessed business leaders maximize their performance in two key areas:

• Driving value-creation through active product innovation leadership and,

• Transforming the organization into an innovation machine.

We plan to share valuable learnings, real stories and practical tips for accelerating and succeeding in both of these key areas.  We look forward to seeing you in sunny Florida this February.

Best regards,

Bob Cooper	Scott Edgett