What does the CEO, CFO, CTO, COO mean?

What does the CEO, CFO, CTO, COO mean?

CXO is the product of the modern company system, is a kind of system manifestation which separates the ownership and the management right, the "X" in the CxO is a kind of proxy, represents a particular position in the company. where c means Chief (Chief), O means official (officer), the middle letter indicates specific categories of division of labor, such as administration, finance, marketing and so on.

CEO (Chief Executive Officer) CEO

It can be understood as the unity of the two identities of business leaders and professional managers, and usually one of the board members, which has the right of final execution, operation, management and decision-making in the company. In smaller companies the CEO may also be the Chairman and President of the Board, and in large companies the same person is not usually the one to be held in order to avoid too much power.

The recent Yu Jiawen is the CEO of the "super timetable", because the company is not large enough, so Yu Jiawen is a part-time job. Because he said he would take 100 million points next year, he was called "bossy president" by netizens.

CFO (Chief Financial Officer) Chief Financial Officer

Also known as "Financial Controller", responsible for the company's financial affairs, if the company listed should be the chief Financial officer solely responsible. It is generally believed that the CFO should carry out financial management and supervision in advance, in and after the different stages.

Last month, Anthony Noto, Twitter's chief financial officer, accidentally sent the wrong tweet, revealing news that Twitter might be engaged in a business merger. Noto So it is the CFO's job to invest in mergers and acquisitions.

CTO (Chief Technology Officer) Chief Technical Officer

Similar to the chief engineer, is the technical experts, master the company's core technology, and can lead the team development, or use of new technologies to help the company achieve its goals. When technology is increasingly becoming an important factor affecting enterprises, CTO's position is also increasing, become the decisive role for enterprise development, especially in Internet enterprises, core technology and core technical personnel is very important.

Before the luxury electric Shang recruit to Jiangxu joined, as CTO. Jiangxu has worked in Silicon Valley for 18 years and has been engaged in projects such as intelligent systems, Internet of things and smart cities.

COO (Chief Operation officer) chief operating officer

Also known as Operations Director, the company is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day activities of the personnel, supervision of daily operations, direct reporting to the CEO, often concurrently vice President position. COO the company to carry out plans, suggestions and scheduling, for the functional departments for guidance and assessment. In addition, COO is responsible for the organization and promotion of the Company's medium and long term development plans.

For example, Lenovo's honorary chairman, Liu's female liuqing, in the second half of this year to join the drop of a taxi, and as chief operating officer of the post.

PostScript: In addition, common executive positions include the CBO (Chief brand officer), CHO (Chief Personnel Officer), CNO (chief negotiator), CPO (Chief public Relations), Cqo (Chief quality officer), etc., in charge of different areas in the company, play their respective functions.