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A corporate officer or corporate executive is a manager or other similarly high-ranking officer in a corporation. Lower-ranking positions are usually not considered to be corporate officers.
Corporate officer positions include:
- Executive chairperson
- Chief executive officer (CEO)
- Chief financial officer (CFO)
- Chief operating officer (COO)
- Chief administrative officer (CAO) and/or chief analytics officer (CAO)
- Chief technical officer (CTO), chief technology officer or technical director
- Chief risk officer (CRO)
- Chief information officer (CIO) and fractional CIO
- Chief information security officer (CISO)
- Chief networking officer (CNO)
- Chief marketing officer (CMO)
- Chief knowledge officer (CKO)
- Chief data officer (CDO)
- Chief communications officer (CCO)
- Chief process officer (CPO)
- Chief security officer (CSO)
- President
- Vice president
- Director-general
- Managing director
- Executive director
- Treasurer or comptroller
The members of the board of directors, including the chairman of the board, depending on context, are sometimes considered to be and sometimes considered not to be corporate officers.
The exact relationship between corporate executives varies from firm to firm, with different firms having quite diverse hierarchical organizations. Often, the relationships between positions are quite complicated; some firms may omit certain positions, place multiple executives in single position, or place single executives in multiple positions. For instance, a firm could have multiple vice-presidents, one of whom is also the CFO. In one firm, the CEO could also be the president, while in another, the CEO appoints someone else to be the president.