Question : How to stop duplicate alerts from being sent to the same individual who belongs to multiple groups

I've got Sharepoint setup with the following scenario:

1. One main site and 12 subsites.
2. Each site and subsite has the following three groups:
    Administrator
    Owner
    Member
3. The same groups are created in Active Directory, and each Sharepoint group contains the AD group.  (IT only wants to maintain groups in AD, so this is what I have to do).
4. Users are assigned to the AD groups

Here's my issue.  I've got high level users (President, VP of Operations, etc.) who need access to all or almost all of the sites, so I've added these users to multiple groups.  I've found that when I set up alerts that I want to go multiple groups, the high level users end up getting multiple alerts (one for each group that the alert is set up on).

I've thought about creating another 'executive group' and putting those users in there, but at some point I'm going to end up creating an individual group for each user and that pretty much eliminates the concept of groups.  If I add the users to groups directly in Sharepoint (instead of assigning an AD group to a Sharepoint group), is Sharepoint smart enough to know to only send one alert to a user who belongs to multiple groups?

Is there any way to stop multiple alerts from being sent if the same user is in multiple groups that the alert is set up for?  Ideas and suggestions welcome...thanks!

Answer : How to stop duplicate alerts from being sent to the same individual who belongs to multiple groups

Why would you have to create an individual group for each user?  Whouldn't you just create one group for the (President, VP and Operations, etc)?