Grc history

After running ten conferences in the summer of 1947, the GRC headquarters were moved to the University of Rhode Island.

During the next two decades, Parks presided over steady growth in the number of conferences and attendees.In 1950, Parks became chairman of the chemistry department at the University of Rhode Island.

In 1956, the Gordon Research Conferences incorporated in New Hampshire as a nonprofit, tax exempt organization devoted to scientific and educational purposes.

In 1963, the Polymers Conference moved to Santa Barbara, California, founding GRC's West Coast winter series.

In 1968, after twenty-one years as director of GRC, Parks resigned and Alexander Cruickshank assumed directorship of the conferences.

In 1990, responding to the international growth of research and technology, the Gordon Research Conferences began to hold meetings outside of the United States The first meetings were in Volterra, in northern Italy.

In 1996, the first Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) was held in conjunction with a Gordon Research Conference.

In that year, enormous accounting scandals at organisations such as Enron, Worldcom, and Tyco prompted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), which was passed by the US congress to protect investors from the possibility of fraudulent accounting activities by corporations.

Since 2003, the GRC Group has maintained its position at the leading edge in the domain of governance, risk, and compliance.

In the following year, the Group self-published its flagship book, Sarbanes-Oxley Guide for Finance and Information Technology Professionals, which became Amazon’s self-publishing division's #1 bestseller for 2004.

In 2007, the organization added the GRC Institute, to better reflect the broad scope of the association’s services and products.

In 2008, the organization expanded and became the GRC Group, to encompass their research, education, and advisory services.

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