Everyone's a CXO for 15 Minutes

I have a pet peeve in that every role within every organization fancies the need for there to be a CXO of that role. I don't know how many CXOs is too many to spoil the broth, but it's a smaller number than those that exist. I'm collecting all the CXO roles, with a focus on new and exciting ones, because I'm idly curious to see how high a number I can grow that to. If I find any relevant websites or professional associations, I'll add them. 

I recognize that some of these titles are...let's say unique to a particular organization or circumstances. I also recognize that there is overlap in some of them and/or that some of them are quite specific for some reason - e.g., the multiple different Chief AI roles listed below. Doesn't matter - someone signed off on those as titles. 

Food for thought: 
  • How many CXOs is too many? 
  • What's the right ratio of CXOs to, well, everyone else in an organization? 
  • If a CXO reports to another CXO that's not the CEO, is that CXO really a CXO, or is it just a VP (or even director!) with a sexier title?
Current CXO count: 233 as of 12/20/2024
  1. Chief Academic Officer - seen in news story 9/9/2023, https://www.acao.org/
  2. Chief Acceleration Officer - seen on Twitter 3/29/2022
  3. Chief Accounting Officer - seen in a story about Tesla on 8/7/2023
  4. Chief Administrative Officer
  5. Chief Advisory Officer - seen on Twitter 5/13/2024
  6. Chief AI and Robotics Officer - course ad seen for CAIRO "certification" on 9/30/2024
  7. Chief AI Chat Data Scientist - seen on Twitter 10/22/2023
  8. Chief AI Ethics Officer - seen on LinkedIn 2/2/2024
  9. Chief AI Officer - seen on LinkedIn 6/13/2023
  10. Chief AI Strategist - seen on LinkedIn 9/2/2024
  11. Chief Amazement Officer - seen on Twitter, most recently on 2/7/2022
  12. Chief Analytics Officer
  13. Chief Analytics and Insights Officer, https://www.dataiq.global/dataiq100-2024-usa 5/21/2024
  14. Chief Architect (in the context of enterprise architecture) - seen on LinkedIn 5/10/2024
  15. Chief Artificial Intelligence and Information Security Officer - seen on LinkedIn 2/7/2024
  16. Chief Audit Executive - LinkedIn, 8/3/2022
  17. Chief Automation Officer - 8/25/2022, https://venturebeat.com/automation/the-emergence-of-the-chief-automation-officer/
  18. Chief Banking Officer - seen on LinkedIn 5/20/2024
  19. Chief Behavioral Officer
  20. Chief Brand Officer
  21. Chief Brand Engagement Officer - seen on LinkedIn 1/14/2023 
  22. Chief Budget Officer
  23. Chief Business Development Officer
  24. Chief Business Officer
  25. Chief Business & Product Officer - someone's current job title on LinkedIn 8/12/2023
  26. Chief Candy Officer - https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/love-candy-heres-the-job-for-you-5930866/
  27. Chief Cheerleader
  28. Chief Claims Officer - seen on LinkedIn 12/26/2023
  29. Chief Client Services Officer - UCE received 9/7/2023
  30. Chief Cloud Officer
  31. Chief Coffee Officer - seen on local news 9/24/2024
  32. Chief Coffee Orderer
  33. Chief Commercial Officer
  34. Chief Communications Officer
  35. Chief Compliance Officer
  36. Chief Connectivity Officer - seen on LinkedIn 11/19/2021
  37. Chief Consulting Officer - seen on LinkedIn as job title 2/18/2024
  38. Chief Content Officer
  39. Chief Copilot - job title seen on LinkedIn post 6/24/2024
  40. Chief Corporate Affairs Officer - heard in news story 10/13/2023
  41. Chief Corporate Citizenship Officer - saw LinkedIn post by someone with that title 2/1/2024
  42. Chief Counsel - seen on LinkedIn 7/12/2024
  43. Chief Course Artisan - seen on LinkedIn 4/12/2023
  44. Chief Creative Officer
  45. Chief Culture Officer - seen on LinkedIn post by someone with that title 12/26/2023
  46. Chief Customer Officer - http://www.ccocouncil.org/
  47. Chief Customer and Innovation Officer - seen on LinkedIn promotion announcement 7/31/2023
  48. Chief Data and Analytics Officer - seen on LinkedIn 2/15/2022
  49. Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer - seen on LinkedIn 12/9/2021
  50. Chief Data and Insights Officer - https://www.dataiq.global/dataiq100-2024-usa 5/21/2024
  51. Chief Data & Trust officer - 8/3/2022
  52. Chief Data Ethics Officer - Forbes, seen on LinkedIn 7/12/2024
  53. Chief Data Governance and Privacy Officer - 8/3/2022; embraced by Gartner 
  54. Chief Data Officer
  55. Chief Decision Scientist, job title seen on LinkedIn 4/21/2024
  56. Chief Design Officer
  57. Chief Development Officer - seen in a succession announcement on Twitter 1/24/2024
  58. Chief Digital Officer
  59. Chief Digital and Administrative Officer - seen on LinkedIn 10/15/2022
  60. Chief Digital and Analytics Officer - https://www.dataiq.global/dataiq100-2024-usa 5/21/2024
  61. Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer - https://www.dataiq.global/dataiq100-2024-usa 5/21/2024
  62. Chief Digital, Data and Analytics Officer - https://www.dataiq.global/dataiq100-2024-usa 5/21/2024
  63. Chief Digital, Data & Technology Officer - https://www.dataiq.global/dataiq100-2024-usa 5/21/2024
  64. Chief Digital and Information Officer - seen on LinkedIn 12/2/2022
  65. Chief Digital Responsibility and Public Policy Officer - 8/3/2022
  66. Chief Digital Risk Officer - 8/3/2022
  67. Chief Digital Service Officer - seen on LinkedIn 3/29/2024
  68. Chief Digital Transformation Officer - someone took that role and posted it on LinkedIn 4/11/2022
  69. Chief Digital Wellness Officer - seen on LinkedIn on 9/21/2022
  70. Chief Disability Officer
  71. Chief Diversity Officer
  72. Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer - seen on 7/26/2022
  73. Chief E-Commerce Officer
  74. Chief Economist
  75. Chief Enablement Officer - seen on LinkedIn 4/10/2023
  76. Chief Encouragement Officer - seen on Twitter 9/27/2022
  77. Chief Engineer
  78. Chief Engineering Officer
  79. Chief Enthusiasm Officer - seen on LinkedIn 1/14/2023
  80. Chief Entrepreneur - seen on LinkedIn 1/3/2023
  81. Chief Environmental, Social and Governance Officer - 1/18/2023
  82. Chief Equality Officer - https://www.worklife.news/leadership/chief-trust-officer/
  83. Chief Equity Officer - seen online 10/4/2023
  84. Chief Ethics Officer
  85. Chief Ethics, Compliance and Privacy Officer - seen on LinkedIn 10/7/2024
  86. Chief Evangelist - worked with two of them c. 2015-2020
  87. Chief Events Officer
  88. Chief Executive Officer
  89. Chief Experience Officer
  90. Chief External Affairs Officer - seen as a job title 2/19/2024
  91. Chief Financial Officer
  92. Chief FOIA Officer - seen on Twitter 9/20/2024
  93. Chief Fruit Officer - seen on a commercial for Welch's Fruit Snacks, but drives home the proliferation of CXO titles even better than this list does IMO. 
  94. Chief Future Officer 
  95. Chief Futurist
  96. Chief Gaming Officer
  97. Chief Genealogical Officer
  98. Chief Global Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Officer - someone with that title seen on LinkedIn 8/25/2023
  99. Chief Governance Officer
  100. Chief Growth Officer
  101. Chief Happiness Officer
  102. Chief Health Officer - seen on LinkedIn 8/31/2022
  103. Chief Health Equity Officer - seen on LinkedIn 3/14/2022
  104. Chief Heart Officer - LinkedIn 1/14/2023
  105. Chief Human Resources Officer - https://www.hrpolicy.org/
  106. Chief Image Officer
  107. Chief Impact Officer - seen in marketing email 1/17/2024
  108. Chief Information Officer
  109. Chief Information and Data Officer - https://www.dataiq.global/dataiq100-2024-usa 5/21/2024
  110. Chief Information and Operations Officer - announced on LinkedIn 9/22/2023
  111. Chief Information, Data, and Digital Officer - https://www.dataiq.global/dataiq100-2024-usa 5/21/2024
  112. Chief Information Governance Officer - https://www.cigoa.org
  113. Chief Information Governance & Privacy Officer - 8/3/2022
  114. Chief Information Security Officer
  115. Chief Innovation Officer
  116. Chief Innovation and Technology Officer - seen on LinkedIn 12/16/2023
  117. Chief Innovation and Value Officer - seen via email 5/3/2023
  118. Chief Inspiration Officer
  119. Chief Integration Officer - seen on LinkedIn 11/25/2022
  120. Chief Integrator Officer - seen at the AIIM22 conference 4/29/2022
  121. Chief Intellectual Property Officer
  122. Chief Internet Evangelist
  123. Chief Investment Officer
  124. Chief Joy Officer
  125. Chief Knowledge Officer
  126. Chief Knowledge and Innovation Officer - job announced on LinkedIn 7/31/2023
  127. Chief Learning Officer
  128. Chief Learning Culture Officer - new eBook by Curious Lion 4/11/2022
  129. Chief Legal Officer
  130. Chief Legal and Business Affairs Officer - seen on LinkedIn 3/10/2022
  131. Chief Legal and Compliance Officer - title seen in use on Twitter 9/12/2023
  132. Chief Legal Operations Officer - seen on LinkedIn 8/10/2023
  133. Chief Legal Technologist - seen on LinkedIn 2/25/2022
  134. Chief Lending Officer - seen on LinkedIn 12/20/2022
  135. Chief Listening Officer
  136. Chief Market Intelligence Officer - seen on LinkedIn 3/23/2024
  137. Chief Marketing Officer
  138. Chief Marketing and Customer Officer - seen as job title on LinkedIn 12/20/2024
  139. Chief Media Officer
  140. Chief Medical Officer
  141. Chief Member Value Officer - seen on ASAE 9/24/2024
  142. Chief Membership & Commercial Services Officer - seen on LinkedIn 1/2/2024
  143. Chief Membership Experience Officer - seen on LinkedIn 1/10/2023
  144. Chief Merchandising Officer - seen in a story on LinkedIn 5/19/2022
  145. Chief Metaverse Officer - seen on 4/1/2022 at https://info.aiim.org/aiim-blog/how-to-prepare-for-the-metaverse
  146. Chief Morale Officer - seen on LinkedIn 3/1/2022
  147. Chief Movement Officer - seen on LinkedIn 
  148. Chief Network Officer
  149. Chief Networking Officer
  150. Chief Nuclear Officer - saw someone announcing that as their new title on LinkedIn 3/31/2023
  151. Chief Nursing Informatics Officer - saw someone with that title on LinkedIn 1/7/2022
  152. Chief Observance Officer
  153. Chief Operating Officer
  154. Chief Operations Officer
  155. Chief Partner Officer - seen on LinkedIn announcement 7/22/2022
  156. Chief People Officer
  157. Chief People & Culture Officer - seen on LinkedIn 10/14/2024
  158. Chief Perception Officer
  159. Chief Pharmacy Officer - seen on LinkedIn 12/9/2021
  160. Chief Physician Executive Officer - seen in a promotion announcement on LinkedIn 5/8/2024
  161. Chief Pizza and Beer Officer - job posting on LinkedIn for Casey's Pizza 1/18/2024
  162. Chief Policy Innovation Officer - 8/3/2022 on Twitter
  163. Chief Privacy Architect, job title seen on LinkedIn 5/28/2024
  164. Chief Privacy Officer
  165. Chief Privacy & Data Ethics Officer - 8/3/2022
  166. Chief Privacy and Trust Officer - seen on LinkedIn announcement 7/22/2024
  167. Chief Process Officer
  168. Chief Process and AI Officer - https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2023/07/26/michael-best-creates-ai-focused-c-suite-role/ 
  169. Chief Procurement Officer
  170. Chief Product Officer
  171. Chief Product Security Officer
  172. Chief Program Officer - position announced on LinkedIn 2/1/2024
  173. Chief Public Policy and Governance officer - LinkedIn 11/20/2024
  174. Chief Purpose Officer - LinkedIn 1/14/2023
  175. Chief Quality Officer
  176. Chief Quality and Product Integrity Officer
  177. Chief Queer Officer - seen on LinkedIn 11/23/2021
  178. Chief Rainmaker - seen on LinkedIn 4/14/2022
  179. Chief Recognition Officer - seen on Linked 12/12/2021
  180. Chief Records Officer 
  181. Chief Records and Retention Officer - seen on LinkedIn 7/3/2024
  182. Chief Recruiting Officer - seen on LinkedIn 4/11/2023
  183. Chief Remote Officer - BBC story on 11/2/2022 https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20221027-the-rise-of-the-chief-remote-officer
  184. Chief Reputation Officer
  185. Chief Research Officer
  186. Chief Resilience Officer - seen in a news story 6/27/2024
  187. Chief Responsible AI Officer - job posting on LinkedIn 8/10/2024
  188. Chief Restructuring Officer
  189. Chief Revenue Officer - see e.g. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/03/13/the-ceos-new-secret-weapon-the-chief-revenue-officer
  190. Chief Revenue & Operations Officer - seen on LinkedIn 4/22/2024
  191. Chief Risk Officer
  192. Chief Risk, Privacy and Information Security Officer - saw someone with that title on Twitter 5/6/2024
  193. Chief Safety Officer
  194. Chief Sales Officer - seen on LinkedIn 8/21/2023
  195. Chief Science and Practice Officer - seen on LinkedIn 7/23/2024
  196. Chief Scientific Officer
  197. Chief Scientific and Regulatory Officer
  198. Chief Scientist
  199. Chief Security Officer
  200. Chief Services Officer
  201. Chief Shampoo Officer - seen on LinkedIn 4/26/2024
  202. Chief Social Media Officer
  203. Chief Stores Officer - Nordstrom has one according to a story seen 8/28/2023.
  204. Chief Storyteller - seen on LinkedIn 1/4/2022
  205. Chief Storytelling Officer
  206. Chief Strategic Operations Officer - seen on LinkedIn 9/17/2024
  207. Chief Strategy Officer
  208. Chief Strategy and Accountability Officer - posted as job title by holder on 11/1/2023
  209. Chief Supply Chain Officer
  210. Chief Sustainability Officer - LinkedIn 1/14/2023
  211. Chief Talent Officer
  212. Chief Talent Acquisition Officer - seen in ARMA Magazine article on 7/21/2023
  213. Chief Talent Development Officer - seen as reference to the magazine of the same name published by ATD on 12/27/2021
  214. Chief Tax Officer - heard on commercial 3/31/2024
  215. Chief Technical Officer
  216. Chief Technological Product Officer
  217. Chief Technology Ethics Officer - first seen 11/9/2021: https://hbr.org/2021/11/thinking-through-the-ethics-of-new-techbefore-theres-a-problem
  218. Chief Technology Officer
  219. Chief Technology Security Officer
  220. Chief Technology Strategist - seen on Twitter 5/30/2023
  221. Chief TikTok Officer - LinkedIn story 2/14/2023 https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/hot-new-job-chief-tiktok-officer-6173050/
  222. Chief Transformation Officer - seen as a job title on LinkedIn as of 3/30/2022
  223. Chief Troublemaker - seen as someone's job title on LinkedIn 5/4/2024
  224. Chief Trust Officer - https://www.worklife.news/leadership/chief-trust-officer/ 
  225. Chief Trust and Security Officer - someone's job title seen on LinkedIn 10/25/2023
  226. Chief Underwriting Officer - someone's job title seen on LinkedIn 10/31/2024
  227. Chief Value Officer - seen on LinkedIn as of 12/12/2021
  228. Chief Visibility Officer
  229. Chief Vision Officer - title used in a marketing email 10/18/2024
  230. Chief Visionary Officer
  231. Chief Web Officer
  232. Chief Wellbeing Officer
  233. Chief Wellness Officer - seen on LinkedIn 1/14/2023

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