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: 242 as of 4/3/2025
  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 Architect - job title seen 3/12/2025
  8. Chief AI Chat Data Scientist - seen on Twitter 10/22/2023
  9. Chief AI Ethics Officer - seen on LinkedIn 2/2/2024
  10. Chief AI Officer - seen on LinkedIn 6/13/2023
  11. Chief AI Strategist - seen on LinkedIn 9/2/2024
  12. Chief Amazement Officer - seen on Twitter, most recently on 2/7/2022
  13. Chief Analytics Officer
  14. Chief Analytics and Insights Officer, https://www.dataiq.global/dataiq100-2024-usa 5/21/2024
  15. Chief Architect (in the context of enterprise architecture) - seen on LinkedIn 5/10/2024
  16. Chief Artificial Intelligence and Information Security Officer - seen on LinkedIn 2/7/2024
  17. Chief Audit Executive - LinkedIn, 8/3/2022
  18. Chief Automation Officer - 8/25/2022, https://venturebeat.com/automation/the-emergence-of-the-chief-automation-officer/
  19. Chief Banking Officer - seen on LinkedIn 5/20/2024
  20. Chief Behavioral Officer
  21. Chief Blow S**t Up Officer - title seen 1/15/2025
  22. Chief Brand Officer
  23. Chief Brand Engagement Officer - seen on LinkedIn 1/14/2023 
  24. Chief Budget Officer
  25. Chief Business Development Officer
  26. Chief Business Officer
  27. Chief Business & Product Officer - someone's current job title on LinkedIn 8/12/2023
  28. Chief Candy Officer - https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/love-candy-heres-the-job-for-you-5930866/
  29. Chief Cheerleader
  30. Chief Claims Officer - seen on LinkedIn 12/26/2023
  31. Chief Client Officer - seen on LinkedIn 5/23/2025
  32. Chief Client Services Officer - UCE received 9/7/2023
  33. Chief Cloud Officer
  34. Chief Coffee Officer - seen on local news 9/24/2024
  35. Chief Coffee Orderer
  36. Chief Commercial Officer
  37. Chief Communications Officer
  38. Chief Compliance Officer
  39. Chief Connectivity Officer - seen on LinkedIn 11/19/2021
  40. Chief Consulting Officer - seen on LinkedIn as job title 2/18/2024
  41. Chief Content Officer
  42. Chief Copilot - job title seen on LinkedIn post 6/24/2024
  43. Chief Corporate Affairs Officer - heard in news story 10/13/2023
  44. Chief Corporate Citizenship Officer - saw LinkedIn post by someone with that title 2/1/2024
  45. Chief Counsel - seen on LinkedIn 7/12/2024
  46. Chief Course Artisan - seen on LinkedIn 4/12/2023
  47. Chief Creative Officer
  48. Chief Culture Officer - seen on LinkedIn post by someone with that title 12/26/2023
  49. Chief Customer Officer - http://www.ccocouncil.org/
  50. Chief Customer and Innovation Officer - seen on LinkedIn promotion announcement 7/31/2023
  51. Chief Data and Analytics Officer - seen on LinkedIn 2/15/2022
  52. Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer - seen on LinkedIn 12/9/2021
  53. Chief Data and Insights Officer - https://www.dataiq.global/dataiq100-2024-usa 5/21/2024
  54. Chief Data & Trust officer - 8/3/2022
  55. Chief Data Ethics Officer - Forbes, seen on LinkedIn 7/12/2024
  56. Chief Data Governance and Privacy Officer - 8/3/2022; embraced by Gartner 
  57. Chief Data Officer
  58. Chief Decision Scientist, job title seen on LinkedIn 4/21/2024
  59. Chief Design Officer
  60. Chief Development Officer - seen in a succession announcement on Twitter 1/24/2024
  61. Chief Digital Officer
  62. Chief Digital and Administrative Officer - seen on LinkedIn 10/15/2022
  63. Chief Digital and Analytics Officer - https://www.dataiq.global/dataiq100-2024-usa 5/21/2024
  64. Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer - https://www.dataiq.global/dataiq100-2024-usa 5/21/2024
  65. Chief Digital, Data and Analytics Officer - https://www.dataiq.global/dataiq100-2024-usa 5/21/2024
  66. Chief Digital, Data & Technology Officer - https://www.dataiq.global/dataiq100-2024-usa 5/21/2024
  67. Chief Digital and Information Officer - seen on LinkedIn 12/2/2022
  68. Chief Digital Democracy and Rights Officer - seen on LinkedIn 1/16/2025
  69. Chief Digital Responsibility and Public Policy Officer - 8/3/2022
  70. Chief Digital Risk Officer - 8/3/2022
  71. Chief Digital Service Officer - seen on LinkedIn 3/29/2024
  72. Chief Digital Transformation Officer - someone took that role and posted it on LinkedIn 4/11/2022
  73. Chief Digital Wellness Officer - seen on LinkedIn on 9/21/2022
  74. Chief Disability Officer
  75. Chief Diversity Officer
  76. Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer - seen on 7/26/2022
  77. Chief E-Commerce Officer
  78. Chief Economist
  79. Chief Enablement Officer - seen on LinkedIn 4/10/2023
  80. Chief Encouragement Officer - seen on Twitter 9/27/2022
  81. Chief Engineer
  82. Chief Engineering Officer
  83. Chief Enthusiasm Officer - seen on LinkedIn 1/14/2023
  84. Chief Entrepreneur - seen on LinkedIn 1/3/2023
  85. Chief Environmental, Social and Governance Officer - 1/18/2023
  86. Chief Equality Officer - https://www.worklife.news/leadership/chief-trust-officer/
  87. Chief Equity Officer - seen online 10/4/2023
  88. Chief Ethics Officer
  89. Chief Ethics, Compliance and Privacy Officer - seen on LinkedIn 10/7/2024
  90. Chief Evangelist - worked with two of them c. 2015-2020
  91. Chief Events Officer
  92. Chief Executive Officer
  93. Chief Experience Officer
  94. Chief External Affairs Officer - seen as a job title 2/19/2024
  95. Chief Financial Officer
  96. Chief FOIA Officer - seen on Twitter 9/20/2024
  97. 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. 
  98. Chief Future Officer 
  99. Chief Futurist
  100. Chief Gaming Officer
  101. Chief Genealogical Officer
  102. Chief Global Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Officer - someone with that title seen on LinkedIn 8/25/2023
  103. Chief Governance Officer
  104. Chief Growth Officer
  105. Chief Happiness Officer
  106. Chief Health Officer - seen on LinkedIn 8/31/2022
  107. Chief Health Equity Officer - seen on LinkedIn 3/14/2022
  108. Chief Heart Officer - LinkedIn 1/14/2023
  109. Chief Human Resources Officer - https://www.hrpolicy.org/
  110. Chief Image Officer
  111. Chief Impact Officer - seen in marketing email 1/17/2024
  112. Chief Information Officer
  113. Chief Information and Data Officer - https://www.dataiq.global/dataiq100-2024-usa 5/21/2024
  114. Chief Information and Operations Officer - announced on LinkedIn 9/22/2023
  115. Chief Information, Data, and Digital Officer - https://www.dataiq.global/dataiq100-2024-usa 5/21/2024
  116. Chief Information Governance Officer - https://www.cigoa.org
  117. Chief Information Governance & Privacy Officer - 8/3/2022
  118. Chief Information Security Officer
  119. Chief Innovation Officer
  120. Chief Innovation Strategist - seen on Twitter 5/21/2025
  121. Chief Innovation and Technology Officer - seen on LinkedIn 12/16/2023
  122. Chief Innovation and Value Officer - seen via email 5/3/2023
  123. Chief Inspiration Officer
  124. Chief Integration Officer - seen on LinkedIn 11/25/2022
  125. Chief Integrator Officer - seen at the AIIM22 conference 4/29/2022
  126. Chief Intellectual Property Officer
  127. Chief Internet Evangelist
  128. Chief Investment Officer
  129. Chief Joy Officer
  130. Chief Knowledge Officer
  131. Chief Knowledge and Innovation Officer - job announced on LinkedIn 7/31/2023
  132. Chief Learning Architect - title seen on Twitter 2/22/2025
  133. Chief Learning Officer
  134. Chief Learning Culture Officer - new eBook by Curious Lion 4/11/2022
  135. Chief Legal Officer
  136. Chief Legal and Business Affairs Officer - seen on LinkedIn 3/10/2022
  137. Chief Legal and Compliance Officer - title seen in use on Twitter 9/12/2023
  138. Chief Legal Operations Officer - seen on LinkedIn 8/10/2023
  139. Chief Legal Technologist - seen on LinkedIn 2/25/2022
  140. Chief Lending Officer - seen on LinkedIn 12/20/2022
  141. Chief Listening Officer
  142. Chief Market Intelligence Officer - seen on LinkedIn 3/23/2024
  143. Chief Marketing Officer
  144. Chief Marketing & Business Development Officer - seen on LinkedIn 1/8/2025
  145. Chief Marketing and Customer Officer - seen as job title on LinkedIn 12/20/2024
  146. Chief Media Officer
  147. Chief Medical Officer
  148. Chief Member Value Officer - seen on ASAE 9/24/2024
  149. Chief Membership & Commercial Services Officer - seen on LinkedIn 1/2/2024
  150. Chief Membership Experience Officer - seen on LinkedIn 1/10/2023
  151. Chief Merchandising Officer - seen in a story on LinkedIn 5/19/2022
  152. Chief Metaverse Officer - seen on 4/1/2022 at https://info.aiim.org/aiim-blog/how-to-prepare-for-the-metaverse
  153. Chief Morale Officer - seen on LinkedIn 3/1/2022
  154. Chief Movement Officer - seen on LinkedIn 
  155. Chief Network Officer
  156. Chief Networking Officer
  157. Chief Nuclear Officer - saw someone announcing that as their new title on LinkedIn 3/31/2023
  158. Chief Nursing Informatics Officer - saw someone with that title on LinkedIn 1/7/2022
  159. Chief Observance Officer
  160. Chief Operating Officer
  161. Chief Operations Officer
  162. Chief Partner Officer - seen on LinkedIn announcement 7/22/2022
  163. Chief People Officer
  164. Chief People & Culture Officer - seen on LinkedIn 10/14/2024
  165. Chief Perception Officer
  166. Chief Pharmacy Officer - seen on LinkedIn 12/9/2021
  167. Chief Physician Executive Officer - seen in a promotion announcement on LinkedIn 5/8/2024
  168. Chief Pizza and Beer Officer - job posting on LinkedIn for Casey's Pizza 1/18/2024
  169. Chief Policy Innovation Officer - 8/3/2022 on Twitter
  170. Chief Privacy Architect, job title seen on LinkedIn 5/28/2024
  171. Chief Privacy Officer
  172. Chief Privacy & Data Ethics Officer - 8/3/2022
  173. Chief Privacy and Trust Officer - seen on LinkedIn announcement 7/22/2024
  174. Chief Process Officer
  175. Chief Process and AI Officer - https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2023/07/26/michael-best-creates-ai-focused-c-suite-role/ 
  176. Chief Procurement Officer
  177. Chief Product Officer
  178. Chief Product Security Officer
  179. Chief Program Officer - position announced on LinkedIn 2/1/2024
  180. Chief Psychometric Officer - seen on 1/9/2025
  181. Chief Public Policy and Governance officer - LinkedIn 11/20/2024
  182. Chief Purpose Officer - LinkedIn 1/14/2023
  183. Chief Quality Officer
  184. Chief Quality and Product Integrity Officer
  185. Chief Queer Officer - seen on LinkedIn 11/23/2021
  186. Chief Rainmaker - seen on LinkedIn 4/14/2022
  187. Chief Recognition Officer - seen on Linked 12/12/2021
  188. Chief Records Officer 
  189. Chief Records and Retention Officer - seen on LinkedIn 7/3/2024
  190. Chief Recruiting Officer - seen on LinkedIn 4/11/2023
  191. Chief Remote Officer - BBC story on 11/2/2022 https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20221027-the-rise-of-the-chief-remote-officer
  192. Chief Reputation Officer
  193. Chief Research Officer
  194. Chief Resilience Officer - seen in a news story 6/27/2024
  195. Chief Responsible AI Officer - job posting on LinkedIn 8/10/2024
  196. Chief Restructuring Officer
  197. Chief Revenue Officer - see e.g. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/03/13/the-ceos-new-secret-weapon-the-chief-revenue-officer
  198. Chief Revenue & Operations Officer - seen on LinkedIn 4/22/2024
  199. Chief Risk Officer
  200. Chief Risk, Privacy and Information Security Officer - saw someone with that title on Twitter 5/6/2024
  201. Chief Safety Officer
  202. Chief Sales Officer - seen on LinkedIn 8/21/2023
  203. Chief Science and Practice Officer - seen on LinkedIn 7/23/2024
  204. Chief Scientific Officer
  205. Chief Scientific and Regulatory Officer
  206. Chief Scientist
  207. Chief Security Officer
  208. Chief Services Officer
  209. Chief Shampoo Officer - seen on LinkedIn 4/26/2024
  210. Chief Social Media Officer
  211. Chief Stores Officer - Nordstrom has one according to a story seen 8/28/2023.
  212. Chief Storyteller - seen on LinkedIn 1/4/2022
  213. Chief Storytelling Officer
  214. Chief Strategic Operations Officer - seen on LinkedIn 9/17/2024
  215. Chief Strategy Officer
  216. Chief Strategy and Accountability Officer - posted as job title by holder on 11/1/2023
  217. Chief Supply Chain Officer
  218. Chief Sustainability Officer - LinkedIn 1/14/2023
  219. Chief Talent Officer
  220. Chief Talent Acquisition Officer - seen in ARMA Magazine article on 7/21/2023
  221. Chief Talent Development Officer - seen as reference to the magazine of the same name published by ATD on 12/27/2021
  222. Chief Tax Officer - heard on commercial 3/31/2024
  223. Chief Technical Officer
  224. Chief Technological Product Officer
  225. Chief Technology Ethics Officer - first seen 11/9/2021: https://hbr.org/2021/11/thinking-through-the-ethics-of-new-techbefore-theres-a-problem
  226. Chief Technology Officer
  227. Chief Technology Innovation Officer - job title seen on LinkedIn 4/3/2025
  228. Chief Technology Security Officer
  229. Chief Technology Strategist - seen on Twitter 5/30/2023
  230. Chief TikTok Officer - LinkedIn story 2/14/2023 https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/hot-new-job-chief-tiktok-officer-6173050/
  231. Chief Transformation Officer - seen as a job title on LinkedIn as of 3/30/2022
  232. Chief Troublemaker - seen as someone's job title on LinkedIn 5/4/2024
  233. Chief Trust Officer - https://www.worklife.news/leadership/chief-trust-officer/ 
  234. Chief Trust and Security Officer - someone's job title seen on LinkedIn 10/25/2023
  235. Chief Underwriting Officer - someone's job title seen on LinkedIn 10/31/2024
  236. Chief Value Officer - seen on LinkedIn as of 12/12/2021
  237. Chief Visibility Officer
  238. Chief Vision Officer - title used in a marketing email 10/18/2024
  239. Chief Visionary Officer
  240. Chief Web Officer
  241. Chief Wellbeing Officer
  242. Chief Wellness Officer - seen on LinkedIn 1/14/2023

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