ceb industry advisory services founded washington d.c. 1983 headquarters arlington va usa key people thomas l. monahan iii chairman and ceo melody jones chief administrative officer richard lindahl chief financial officer haniel lynn group president warren thune group president revenue us 904 million 2013 1 operating income us 109.2 million 2012 2 net income us 105 million 2013 1 number of employees 4 100 in 50 global offices website www.cebglobal.com ceb is a global best practice insights and technology company 3 that provides products and services to businesses worldwide . contents 1 history 1.1 acquisitions 2 publications 3 stock information 4 references history edit ceb formerly corporate executive board offered its first program to executives council on financial competition in 1983 when it was part of the advisory board company . 4 fourteen years later they split from advisory board company and opened a new office in london . 5 ceb went public in 1999 on the nasdaq exchange . tom monahan was appointed ceo in 2005 . 6 at that time the company expanded offerings to accommodate middle market companies . in 2007 the company expanded domestically and opened offices in san francisco and chicago . the company left washington d.c. in 2008 to move its global headquarters to the rosslyn neighborhood of arlington virginia . 7 in may 2015 the company changed its legal name to ceb inc. 8 acquisitions edit in 2009 ceb acquired toronto based warrillow & co. 9 and the financial services firm towergroup 10 in may 2010 the company acquired consumer research and advisory company iconoculture . 11 later that year ceb transferred listing of its common stock from nasdaq to the nyse and began trading on 20 august 2010 . 12 the company acquired baumgartner & partner a germany based consulting firm in october 2011 . 13 in may 2016 ceb acquired evanta ventures inc. evanta for 275 million . 14 evanta is based in portland oregon and provides events platforms and information offerings to train it security human resources and finance staff in collaboration and best practices . publications edit the company has published three books through portfolio penguin . the challenger sale by brent adamson and matthew dixon was published on november 10 2011 . 15 16 in 2013 matthew dixon with nick toman and rick delisi wrote the effortless experience published on september 12 . 17 18 the third book the challenger customer was written by matthew dixon brent adamson nick toman and patrick spenner and published on september 8 2015 . 19 20 stock information edit ceb s ipo occurred february 22 1999 at an offer price of 19 . the company previously on nasdaq entered into an alliance with nyse euronext in 2010 and began actively trading as ceb in 2012 . 21 references edit a b ceb annual report & investor slide shows what the best companies do . ir.executiveboard.com . retrieved 2015 06 05 . ceb inc ceb new york financial statements businessweek . investing.businessweek.com . retrieved 2015 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journal . bizjournals.com . retrieved 2015 06 05 . jeff clabaugh 2010 08 20 . corporate executive board moves to nyse washington business journal . bizjournals.com . retrieved 2015 06 05 . corporate executive board acquires germany based baumgartner & partner unternehmensberatung gmbh . pr newswire . 2011 10 03 . retrieved 2015 06 05 . r. chandrasekaran 2016 05 02 . ceb completes evanta ventures acquisition . yahoo . retrieved 2016 08 28 . book review the challenger sale taking control of the customer conversation . sales and sales management blog . 2011 09 07 . retrieved 2015 06 05 . the challenger sale taking control of the customer conversation . amazon.com . retrieved 2015 06 05 . roger trapp 2013 09 30 . defense can be better than offense in customer service . forbes . retrieved 2016 08 28 . the effortless experience conquering the new battleground for customer loyalty . penguin random house . retrieved 2016 08 28 . dave brock 2015 09 23 . the challenger customer . customerthink . 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