Financial Executives International

Financial Executives International (FEI) is a member-service–oriented organization based in Morristown, New Jersey, for senior-level financial executives in companies in varying sizes, both public and private, and in all industries. FEI operates a separate nonprofit foundation: Financial Executive Research Foundation (FERF), which acts as an impartial financial resource for members and Foundation supporters.

FEI was founded as the Controllers Institute of America in 1931. The organization renamed itself in 1962 to Financial Executives Institute to reflect the expansion of responsibilities among financial executives into policy-making areas. As the global economy continued to grow in the 1960s, the group helped form the International Association of Financial Executives Institutes (IAFEI). By 2000, the organization had opened membership to financial executives from around the world and underwent another name change – Financial Executives International. In 2011, FEI had 86 chapters in cities across the United States and Canada as well as Japan. Some of the organization’s largest chapters are located in Boston, Silicon Valley, New York City, Dallas and Chicago. FEI launched a Japan Chapter in February 2012, marking the organization’s first expansion outside of North America. FEI is headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, with offices in Washington, D.C. FEI Canada, which operates independently, has 11 chapters and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

In 1944, FEI created a separate foundation, FERF, which performs impartial and independent research on financial and strategic-management topics for a wide breadth of industries. FEI Canada's research foundation is called CFERF (the Canadian Financial Executives Research Foundation).

The Financial Executive Research Foundation (FERF) was founded in 1944 as a separate 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization. It was established in order to provide financial solutions for the financial management profession through impartial and independent research. It frequently partners with other organizations to conduct industry research.

...
Wikipedia