CEOs of the top ranking companies from the FT Europe 500 are recruited into the EBLA Nominations Panel where they nominate up to two chief executives from companies other than their own in each of the seven categories.

The EBLA team confirms the CEO’s participation and a preferred method for submitting nominations: by e-mail, post, fax or online on this website.

The deadline for nominations is midnight 21 September 2007. Nominations are then forwarded to the EBLA advisory panel to calculate the results.

Nomination results and dossiers on each finalist are submitted to the

judges who then select four finalists in each category in November 2007.

The names of the finalists are announced on CNBC Europe and posted on the website. The finalists are also named at an event held at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos in January 2008.

The CEO Nominating Panellists are invited as special guests to a VIP gala dinner and ceremony in London on 13 March 2008 where the winners are announced.

CNBC Europe will broadcast exclusive coverage of the event including interviews with the finalists.