The CMO Club · Requirements

The CMO Club membership requirements

Every criterion The CMO Club publishes, with its source, the date it was verified and how confident we are in it, plus superseded figures, so you can see how the tests have moved.

Read a requirement as the organization's published floor, not as a promise. A revenue test may have alternative versions for different business types, chapters can set stricter local tests, and invitation-only bodies publish criteria that describe members rather than admit them.

Current published criteria

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Criterion	Published requirement	Note	Provenance
Role or title	Chief marketing officer or equivalent senior marketing leader	The historic club and its successor both position membership as CMO-level. No formal written eligibility test is published.	Verified September 2026Medium confidenceSource ↗
Other criterion	Vendors and press were excluded from the original club's rooms	Described in trade commentary as the club's founding premise. The successor is sponsor-supported.	Verified September 2026Medium confidenceSource ↗

Not publicly disclosed. Neither the original club nor its successor publishes a written eligibility standard beyond CMO-level seniority.

How admission works

Application process

For the successor InspireCMO: complete an online interest form, speak with the chapter's executive director, then begin attending member programmes. No public application process survives for the original CMO Club.

Invitation required

Not documented by the organization or a source we could verify

Sponsor required

Selectivity

Not publicly disclosed.

Membership term

Not documented by the organization or a source we could verify

Primary audience

Chief marketing officers and senior marketing leaders at established brands

Typical member

Members were CMOs and senior marketing leaders at large consumer and business brands. The club's defining rule was that vendors and press were excluded, so members could speak without being sold to or quoted.

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If not: alternatives to The CMO Club (The PEER 150, Gartner C-level Communities, Society for Information Management, CFO Leadership Council).

Last verified: 6 September 2026 Report an error on this page

Sources

ClubCMO is now InspireCMO, InspireCXO / InspireCMO. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 1
InspireCMO - How to Join, InspireCXO. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 1
InspireCIO Leadership Network - home, InspireCXO. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 1
Welcome The CMO Club to the Salesforce Family, Salesforce, March 2020. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 6
Salesforce has quietly unloaded The CMO Club (post), LinkedIn / Ryan Joe, June 2023. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 8

Source tiers follow the published hierarchy: 1 official site · 2 official membership materials · 3 application documents · 4 annual reports · 5 government filings · 6 reliable business publications · 7 credible interviews · 8 other reputable secondary sources. Sources and data policy.