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Butler and CE Group's Chairman and CEO, Ed Kopko makes frequent media appearances.

A sought after speaker and industry expert, Kopko appears regularly on CNBC, to announce the CEO Confidence Index, the nation’s only monthly survey of CEO attitudes. He has also appeared on Fox News, MSNBC, CNN and CBS in addition to radio interviews on Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal and CBS radio.

Catch up with the latest news right here.

CEO confidence gets better in April
Date: 05/02/08
The index is culled from interviews with 635 top U.S. executives. It tracks several indices -- current, future, business, investment and employment. In April, the Future Confidence Index had the sharpest increase, rising 15.7 percent to 84.4 points. More...

Fishing For Talent
Date: April 08
Butler International addresses the workforce gap and the strong demand for engineers. Butler International President and CEO Edward Kopko and Senior VP Jim Beckley recently spoke with Airline Procurement about the company's global expansion, engineering staffing experience and outsourcing activities. More...

CEO confidence gets better in April
Date: 05/02/08
American chief executives' confidence in the national economy improved in April, according to Chief Executive magazine's monthly CEO Index. More...

CEO confidence improves in April
Date: 05/02/08
The CEO Index grew roughly 13 percent to 96.4 points in April, but remained at its lowest level since 2003 and is 63 percent lower than where it was this time last year. More...

CEO confidence up in April
Date: 05/02/08
CEO confidence in the economy improved by nearly 16 percent in April according to Chief Executive magazine's monthly CEO Index. Overall, however, CEOs remained concerned about the economy. More...

Early Signs of confindece
Date: 05/02/08
A survey by Chief Executive magazine on Friday found 14 percent of CEOs plan to increase hiring over the next quarter, up from 9 percent in March. The uptick follows three straight months of decline. More...

Early Signs of confindece
Date: 05/02/08
"CEOs are starting to wonder if the economy is at the low point," said Ed Kopko, the magazine's publisher. More...

UPDATE 1-US CEO confidence index drops to record low-survey
Date: 04/03/08
An index of chief executives' confidence in the U.S. economy plunged to a record low last month, reflecting deeper concerns about the U.S. credit crisis and prospects for hiring. More...

One-quarter of US CEOs see likely recession-survey
Date: 11/01/07
A monthly CEO confidence index fell 3 points in October to 127.5 points, its lowest level since July 2003, amid concerns about the effects of a subprime mortgage crisis, a weak U.S. housing market, and record oil prices. The latest level compares to a base of 100, when the index was launched in October 2002. Its trough of about 89 points was in April 2003, and the index peaked at about 182 points in January 2006. More...

CEOs: Increasingly Skittish
Date: 04/10/08
The CEO economic outlook index was unchanged in the first quarter of 2008, the survey shows, at a level of 79.5. (Levels above 50 indicate expansion.) The index reflects sales, capital expenditures, and employment estimates for the next six months. More...

CEOs Show Pessimism About Economy
Date: 04/03/08
An index of chief executives' confidence in the US economy plunged to a record low last month, reflecting deeper concerns about the credit crisis and prospects for hiring. More...

CEO confidence index drops to record low
Date: 04/03/08
The monthly confidence index stood at 84.1 in March - 25.3 points lower than February and down by half since July, shortly before the subprime mortgage crisis hit. The figures compare with a base number of 100 when the index began in October 2002 and a peak of 182.4 in January 2006. More...

What's In A Leader? Ed Kopko and Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
Date: 08/07/07
Recent focus on board activism and chief executive turnover would have you believe that these are particularly difficult times for CEOs and that the job of a CEO is more challenging than it has ever been. The fact is, the job of a CEO has always been a highly complex task. More...

The CEO Serves: Moral Purpose and Business Leadership
Edward M. Kopko has been the president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida-based Butler International, Inc., since January 1987. Butler International, with 3,800 employees, is a worldwide provider of technical and technology services, helping clients such as Boeing, Caterpillar, Citigroup, Los Alamos National Laboratories, Merrill Lynch, Verizon, and many others. More...

Happy Employees Boost Customer Satisfaction AND Bottom-Line
"[Kopko] has always taken a holistic approach to quality," explains Robin Uhl, director of marketing for Montvale, NJ-based Butler. "He believes we have to keep all of our constituencies happy-employees, customers and shareholders. More...

CEO Confidence Hits Record Low
Date: 04/03/08
An index of chief executives' confidence in the US economy plunged to a record low last month, reflecting deeper concerns about the credit crisis and prospects for hiring. More...

Pessimism Is Growing in Executive Suites
Date: 12/06/07
Surveys of corporate chief executives and chief financial officers released yesterday showed sharp declines in optimism about the economy and business conditions, providing more evidence that the economy is slowing. Overall, the C.E.O. confidence index fell for the fourth consecutive month, and was the lowest since May 2003. More...

RESISTANT TO SPIN Many C.E.O.’s are known for putting a positive spin on negative news
Date: 04/06/08
The C.E.O. Confidence Index, measured by Chief Executive magazine since 2002, plunged to a record low last month. Not mincing words, 52 percent of top chiefs surveyed called current business conditions downright "bad." No word on whether the magazine plans to add choices like "truly abysmal" or "utterly hopeless" to the survey, just in case "bad" ends up becoming business as usual.. More...

Favorite States to do business
Date: 01/22/08
California and New York are rated by top executives as the worst states to do business, according to a recent poll of 605 chief executive officers conducted by Chief Executive magazine. Texas and Nevada were listed as the best two states..More...

Fed inaction worries markets
Date: 12/06/07
Surveys of corporate chief executives and chief financial officers released yesterday showed sharp declines in optimism about the economy and business conditions, providing more evidence that the economy is slowing. Overall, the C.E.O. confidence index fell for the fourth consecutive month, and was the lowest since May 2003. More...

CEO Confidence on the Decline
Date: 12/01/07
CEO confidence continued to decline falling 2 percent to 127.5 points. The polling, which was conducted among 536 C-level executives, highlighted the divergence between the stock market and CEOs' reaction to the Fed rate cuts. More...