SCIP Members: October 28 marks the beginning of the election for the 2009 SCIP Board of Directors.

All SCIP regular, group, and life members in good standing have the privilege, and I would also add responsibility, of voting in this important election. The convenient, secure, web-based voting process will only take a couple of minutes at most. Results of the election will be announced within two weeks following the closing date of the election.

Voting is quick, easy and completely private. To access the ballot and information about the candidates, visit this link to vote.

It is essential that you vote for your future representation at the SCIP Board of Directors. Especially while SCIP prepares to become a truly global association in support of all international SCIP members and way beyond for all Competitive Intelligence professionals word-wide.

Please review the candidates and their biographies, goals here:

• Adrian Alvarez - Midas Consulting - Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Claudia Clayton - ViewPoint - Richmond, Virginia, USA
• Erik Glitman - Fletcher/CSI - Williston, Vermont, USA
• Donna Hawryliw - Erie Insurance Group - Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
• Yoshio Sugasawa - Nihon University - Tokyo, Japan
• Jens Thieme - Ciba Inc. - Basel, Switzerland
• Todd Welda - Whirlpool Corporation - St. Joseph, Michigan, USA

The voting ballot will be available October 28 beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET and will conclude Friday, November 14 at 11:59 p.m. ET.

The founder and owner of markintell.com Jens Thienme is on the ballot as well as you might have seen. As a markintell.com user please consider to vote for Jens: Jens Thieme’s SCIP Board of Director’s Candidacy / Value that Jens would bring to SCIP’s Board of Directors for the international Competitive Intelligence community and SCIP members.