company overview

At the same time that CRO Corp, LLC is committed to bringing you information tailored to your individual needs, we recognize the importance of protecting the privacy of personally identifiable information collected about you, our customers and prospects. In adopting this customer privacy policy, our intent is to balance our legitimate business interests in collecting and using information with your reasonable expectations of privacy.

CRO Corp, LLC does not collect personally identifying information about individuals, except when specifically and knowingly provided by such individuals.

The leadership team at The CRO has more than 50 years of combined experience leading global business media organizations.

Founders

Michael Connor
Publisher and Editor, The CRO Magazine
Chairman, The CRO Conference Series
Michael Connor is an award-winning executive with more than three decades of experience reporting news and developing new media ventures. Michael’s leadership role in the field of corporate responsibility dates to November 2004, when he purchased Business Ethics Magazine, one of the oldest and best-known publications in the field. Connor began his career as a journalist, first as a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and later as a Correspondent and Senior Producer for ABC News, where his television work received numerous honors, including a national Emmy, a Columbia-duPont Award, a Writers Guild Award and a nomination for an Academy Award. He also held executive positions at Dow Jones & Co., where he led global development of the company's TV and multimedia operations, and served as Executive Producer of The Wall Street Journal Report, a weekly syndicated program. Internationally, Connor was instrumental in the development and launch of Asia Business News and later served as founding Chief Executive of European Business News (EBN), Dow Jones's London-based pan-European TV network. Following a merger with CNBC, these networks formed the distribution backbone for what is now CNBC International. A graduate of Holy Cross College, Connor is a board member of several non-profit organizations. He lives in New York City and in upstate Phoenicia, NY, with his wife, Noni. Michael can be reached at MConnor@TheCRO.com.