Vidar Jorgensen
Chairman, Conference and Research Companies

 Mr. Jorgensen is the majority owner of six industry based conference and research companies, which in turn own and manage over 200 conferences and several membership based research groups focused on biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, health care, insurance, financial services, entertainment and infrastructure development. 

CBI Research, Inc. organizes 100 business-to-business conferences annually, largely in pharmaceuticals, insurance and health care.  WRG Research, Inc. currently organizes about 50 business-to-business conferences a year in finance, health care, entertainment and sports. Cambridge Healthtech Institute organizes 50 biotechnology and pharmaceutical development conferences a year.   Cambridge Healthtech Advisory provides membership based advisory services in biotechnology and pharmaceutical research, development, and marketing and produces research reports. 

The World Health Care Congress was launched January 26-27, 2004 in conjunction with The Wall Street Journal and CNBC. This partnership will be expanding on this new franchise in both Europe and the United States.

Mr. Jorgensen was born in Arendale, Norway in 1947 and graduated from Harvard College in 1969 with honors in Political Science. He resides in Concord, Massachusetts with his wife Kathy and three children Lorens, Nicholas and Kristen.