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==List of chief officer (CO) titles==
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| {{Anchor|Chief academic officer}} [[Chief academic officer]] || CAO || Responsible for [[academic administration]] at [[university|universities]] and other [[higher education]] institutions 
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| {{Anchor|Chief accessibility officer}} [[Chief accessibility officer]] || CAO || Responsible for overseeing [[accessibility]] and [[Inclusion (disability rights)|inclusion]] for [[Disability|people with disabilities]] and [[Old age#Senior citizen|seniors]]
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| {{Anchor|Chief accounting officer}} [[Chief accounting officer]] || CAO || Responsible for overseeing all [[accounting]] and [[bookkeeping]] functions, ensuring that [[ledger]] accounts, [[financial statement]]s, and [[cost control]] systems are operating effectively
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| {{Anchor|Chief administrative officer}} [[Chief administrative officer]] || CAO || Responsible for [[business administration]], including daily operations and overall performance
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| {{Anchor|Chief analytics officer}} [[Chief analytics officer]] || CAO || Responsible for [[data analysis]] and interpretation
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| {{Anchor|Chief architect (disambiguation)|Chief architect}} [[chief architect (disambiguation)|Chief architect]] || CA || Responsible for designing systems for [[high availability]] and [[scalability]], specifically in technology companies. Often called enterprise architects (EA).
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| {{Anchor|Chief audit executive}} [[Chief audit executive]] || CAE || Responsible for the [[internal audit]]
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| {{Anchor|Chief brand officer}} [[Chief brand officer]] || CBO || Responsible for a [[brand]]'s image, experience, and promise, and propagating it throughout all aspects of the company, overseeing [[marketing]], [[advertising]], design, [[public relations]] and [[customer service]] departments
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| {{Anchor|Chief business officer}} [[Chief business officer]] || CBO || Responsible for the company's deal making, provides leadership and execute a deal strategy that will allow the company to fulfill its scientific/technology mission and build shareholder value, provides managerial guidance to the company's product development staff as needed.
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| {{Anchor|Chief business development officer}} [[Chief business development officer]] || CBDO || Responsible for [[business development]] plans, design and implementation of processes to support business growth
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| {{Anchor|Chief commercial officer}} [[Chief commercial officer]] || CCO || Responsible for [[commerce|commercial]] strategy and development
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| {{Anchor|Chief communications officer}} [[Chief communications officer]] || CCO || Responsible for communications to employees, shareholders, media, bloggers, [[Influencer marketing|influencers]], the press, the community, and the public. Practical application of [[communication studies]]
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| {{Anchor|Chief compliance officer}} [[Chief compliance officer]] || CCO || Responsible for overseeing and managing [[regulatory compliance]].
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| {{Anchor|Chief content officer}} [[Chief content officer]] || CCO || Responsible for developing and commissioning content for [[broadcasting]] channels and [[multimedia]] exploitation
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| {{Anchor|Chief creative officer}} [[Chief creative officer]] || CCO || In one sense of the term, responsible for the overall look and feel of marketing, media, and branding. In another sense, similar to chief design officer.
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| {{Anchor|Chief customer officer}} [[Chief customer officer]] || CCO || Responsible for [[customer relationship management]]
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| {{Anchor|Chief data officer}} [[Chief data officer]] || CDO || Responsible for enterprise-wide governance and utilization of information and data as assets, via [[data processing]], [[data analysis]], [[data mining]], information trading, and other means
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| {{Anchor|Chief Delivery Officer}} Chief delivery officer
|CDO
|Responsible for leading the [[project management office]] for [[Project management|project coordination]], and facilitating product deliveries among clients worldwide
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| {{Anchor|Chief design officer}} [[Chief design officer]]|| CDO || Responsible for overseeing all design aspects of a company's products and services, including [[product design]], [[graphic design]], user experience design, [[industrial design]], and [[package design]], and possibly aspects of advertising, marketing, and engineering
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| {{Anchor|Chief development officer}} Chief development officer || CDO || Responsible for activities developing the business, usually through added products, added clients, markets or segments
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| {{Anchor|Chief digital officer}} [[Chief digital officer]]|| CDO || Responsible for adoption of [[digital economy|digital technologies]], digital consumer experiences, the process of [[digital transformation]], and devising and executing social strategies
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| {{Anchor|Chief diversity officer}} [[Chief diversity officer]]|| CDO || Responsible for [[diversity (politics)|diversity]] and inclusion, including [[diversity training]] and [[equal employment opportunity]]
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| {{Anchor|Chief engineering officer}} [[Chief engineering officer]]|| CEngO || Similar to the more common chief technology officer (CTO); responsible for technology/product R & D and manufacturing issues in a technology company, oversees the development of technology being [[commercialization|commercialized]]
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| {{Anchor|Chief executive officer}} [[Chief executive officer]]|| CEO || Responsible for the overall vision and direction of an organization, making the final decisions over all of the corporation's operations. The highest-ranking management officer; often also the [[chairman of the board]]. Usually called CEO in the United States, chief executive or [[managing director]] in the United Kingdom, Commonwealth of Nations, and some other countries.
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| {{Anchor|Chief experience officer}} [[Chief experience officer]]|| CXO || Responsible for [[user experience]], overseeing [[user experience design]] and [[user interface design]]. ''CXO'' is not to be confused with ''CxO'', a term commonly used when referring to any one of various chief officers.
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| {{Anchor|Chief financial officer}} [[Chief financial officer]]|| CFO || Responsible for all aspects of finances
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| {{Anchor|Chief gaming officer}} [[Chief gaming officer]]|| CGO || Responsible for both the game development and the online and offline publishing functions of a company that makes [[video game]]s
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| {{Anchor|Chief government relations officer}} Chief government relations officer|| CGRO || Responsible for all aspects of government relations and [[lobbying]]
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| {{Anchor|Chief human resources officer}} [[Chief human resources officer]]|| CHRO || Responsible for all aspects of [[human resource management]] and [[industrial relations]]
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| {{Anchor|Chief information officer}} [[Chief information officer]]|| CIO || Responsible for IT, particularly in IT companies or companies that rely heavily on an IT infrastructure
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| {{Anchor|Chief information security officer}} [[Chief information security officer]]|| CISO || Responsible for [[information security]]
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| {{Anchor|Chief information technology officer}} [[Chief Information Technology Officer|Chief information technology officer]]|| CITO || Responsible for information technology. Often equivalent to chief information officer (CIO) and, in a company that sells IT, chief technology officer (CTO).
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| {{Anchor|Chief innovation officer}} [[Chief innovation officer]]|| CINO || Responsible for innovation
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| {{Anchor|Chief investment officer}} [[Chief investment officer]]|| CIO || Responsible for investment and for the [[asset liability management]] (ALM) of typical large financial institutions such as insurers, banks and/or pension funds
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| {{Anchor|Chief knowledge officer}} [[Chief knowledge officer]]|| CKO || Responsible for managing [[intellectual capital]] and [[knowledge management]]
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| {{Anchor|Chief learning officer}} [[Chief learning officer]]|| CLO || Responsible for learning and training
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| {{Anchor|Chief legal officer}} [[Chief legal officer]]|| CLO || Responsible for overseeing and identifying legal issues in all departments and their interrelation, as well as [[corporate governance]] and business policy. Often called [[general counsel]] (GC) or chief counsel.
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| {{Anchor|Chief marketing officer}} [[Chief marketing officer]]|| CMO || Responsible for marketing; job may include sales management, product development, [[distribution channel]] management, marketing communications (including advertising and promotions), [[pricing]], [[market research]], and [[customer service]].
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| {{Anchor|Chief medical officer}} [[Chief medical officer]]|| CMO || Responsible for scientific and medical excellence, especially in [[pharmaceutical industry|pharmaceutical companies]], [[health system]]s, [[hospital]]s, and integrated provider networks. The title is used in many countries for the senior government official who advises on matters of [[public health]] importance. In the latter sense compare also [[Chief Dental Officer (Canada)|chief dental officer]].
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| {{Anchor|Chief networking officer}} [[Chief networking officer]]|| CNO || Responsible for [[social capital]] within the company and between the company and its partners
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| {{Anchor|Chief nursing officer}} [[Chief nursing officer]]|| CNO || Responsible for nursing
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| {{Anchor|Chief operating officer}} [[Chief operating officer]]|| COO || Responsible for supervising [[office]] administration and maintenance, business operations, including [[operations management]], [[operations research]], and (when applicable) [[manufacturing operations]]; role is highly contingent and situational, changing from company to company and even from a CEO to their successor within the same company. Often called "director of operations" in the nonprofit sector.
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| {{Anchor|Chief privacy officer}} [[Chief privacy officer]]|| CPO || Responsible for all the privacy of the data in an organization, including [[privacy policy]] enforcement
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| {{Anchor|Chief process officer}} [[Chief process officer]]|| CPO || Responsible for [[business process]]es and applied [[process theory]], defining rules, policies, and guidelines to ensure that the main objectives follow the company strategy as well as establishing control mechanisms
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| {{Anchor|Chief procurement officer}} [[Chief procurement officer]]|| CPO || Responsible for [[procurement]], sourcing goods and services and negotiating prices and contracts
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| {{Anchor|Chief product officer}} [[Chief product officer]]|| CPO || Responsible for all product-related matters. The CPO is to the business's product what the CTO is to technology. The responsibilities of the CPO are inclusive of product vision, product strategy, user experience, product design, product development, and product marketing.
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| {{Anchor|Chief quality officer}} Chief quality officer|| CQO || Responsible for quality and [[quality assurance]], setting up quality goals and ensuring that those goals continue to be met over time
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| {{Anchor|Chief research officer}} [[Chief research officer]]|| CRO || Responsible for research
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| {{Anchor|Chief research and development officer}} Chief research and development officer|| CRDO || Responsible for [[research and development]]
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| {{Anchor|Chief revenue officer}} [[Chief revenue officer]]|| CRO || Responsible for measuring and maximizing revenue
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|{{Anchor|Chief risk officer}} [[Chief risk officer]]|| CRO || Responsible for [[risk management]], ensuring that risk is avoided, controlled, accepted, or transferred and that opportunities are not missed. Sometimes called chief risk management officer (CRMO).
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| {{Anchor|Chief sales officer}} Chief sales officer|| CSO || Responsible for [[sales]]
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| {{Anchor|Chief science officer}} [[Chief science officer]]|| CSO || Responsible for science, usually [[applied science]], including research and development and [[new technologies]]. Sometimes called chief scientist.
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| {{Anchor|Chief security officer}} [[Chief security officer]]|| CSO || Responsible for security, including physical security and [[network security]]
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| {{Anchor|Chief software officer}} [[Chief software officer]]|| CSO || Responsible for the overall software strategy, roadmap, engineering, and user experience
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| {{Anchor|Chief solutions officer}} [[Chief solutions officer]]|| CSO || Responsible for the development and delivery of reliable and innovative business and technology solutions
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| {{Anchor|Chief strategy officer}} [[Chief strategy officer]]|| CSO || Responsible for all aspects of [[strategy]] and [[strategic planning]], including enterprise portfolio management, corporate development, and market intelligence
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| {{Anchor|Chief sustainability officer}} [[Chief sustainability officer]]|| CSO || Responsible for environmental/sustainability programs
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|Chief system engineer
|CSE
|Responsible for the whole system specification, validation, and verification in development processes. Usually using as the manager of other sub-system engineers.
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| {{Anchor|Chief technical officer}}{{Anchor|Chief technology officer}}[[Chief technology officer]] (or "[[Chief technical officer]]")|| CTO || Responsible for technology and research and development, overseeing the development of technology to be commercialized. For an information technology company, the subject matter would be similar to the CIO's; however, the CTO's focus is technology for the firm to sell versus technology used for facilitating the firm's own operations.
This position is sometimes called "Chief technical officer", and often has the responsibility of managing the "technical issues" related to products or services in organizations that are not necessarily focused on technology. This is relatively common in NGOs and the development aid sector when the CEO or Project Director is not a person with a strong technical background related to the aid program focus such as economic development, renewable energy, human rights, agriculture, WASH, emergency responses, etc. The CTO provides guidance and advice to the program implementation team related to technical things. In some development aid programs, this position is similar to the technical director. 
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| {{Anchor|Chief value officer}} Chief value officer|| CVO || Ensure that all programs, actions, new products, services and investments create and capture customer value.
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| {{Anchor|Chief visionary officer}} [[Chief visionary officer]]|| CVO || Responsible for defining corporate [[vision statement|vision]], business strategy, and working plans
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|{{Anchor|Chief web officer}} [[Chief web officer]]|| CWO || Responsible for the [[web presence]] of the company and usually for the entire online presence, including [[intranet]] and Internet (web, [[mobile app]]s, other)

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