Glad to have some company in EIPC! I think the most important common element between EIPC and NEIK is a smart, solid, trustworthy CEO. Things may not always work out the way we want them to with these little companies, but I've always gotten straight answers from these guys.
At one time I would have put Arun Govil of CTEI in the same category, too, but he wasn't so good at returning phone calls so I sold out of that one many months ago.