Corporate titles or business titles are given to company and organization officials to show what duties and responsibilities they have in the organization. Such titles are used publicly and privately held for-profit corporations. In addition, many non-profit organizations, educational institutions, partnerships, and sole proprietorships also confer corporate titles.
The chief financial officer (CFO) is the officer of a company that has primary responsibility for managing the company's finances, including financial planning, management of financial risks, record-keeping, and financial reporting. In some sectors, the CFO is also responsible for analysis of data. Some CFOs have the title CFOO for chief financial and operating officer. In the United Kingdom, the typical term for a CFO is finance director (FD). The CFO typically reports to the chief executive officer (CEO) and the board of directors and may additionally have a seat on the board. The CFO supervises the finance unit and is the chief financial spokesperson for the organization. The CFO directly assists the chief operating officer (COO) on all strategic and tactical matters relating to budget management, cost–benefit analysis, forecasting needs, and securing of new funding.
Scott McNealy is an American businessman. He is most famous for co-founding the computer technology company Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, and Andy Bechtolsheim. In 2004, while still at Sun, McNealy founded Curriki, a free online education service. In 2011, he co-founded Wayin, a social intelligence and visualization company based in Denver. McNealy stepped down from his position as CEO of Wayin in 2016.
The chief operating officer (COO), also called the chief operations officer, is one of the highest-ranking executive positions in an organization, comprising part of the "C-Suite". The COO is responsible for the daily operation of the company, and routinely reports to the highest-ranking executive, usually the chief executive officer (CEO).
Lewis William Killcross Booth CBE is a British accountant and business executive. He is currently on the board of directors for Rolls Royce, for Mondelez International, Inc, and Gentherm Inc. He previously had a 34-year career at Ford Motor Company where he rose to the rank of Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer, responsible for Ford's financial operations, including the Controller's Office, Treasury and Investor Relations, a position he held from November 2008 until April 2012.
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was a global financial services firm. Before filing for bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth-largest investment bank in the United States, doing business in investment banking, equity and fixed-income sales and trading, research, investment management, private equity, and private banking. Lehman was operational for 158 years from its founding in 1850 until 2008.
Farid Suleman has been a director of Fairway Group Holdings since 2012. Before that, he was the chairman and CEO of Citadel Broadcasting from March 2002 until the company's acquisition by Cumulus Media in 2011. He previously spent 16 years working for Infinity Broadcasting Corporation and 12 years at Westwood One.
James A. Bell is a retired American executive of The Boeing Company.
George Reyes is the former CFO of Google. He was formerly a director of BEA Systems, Symantec, and LifeLock.
Mark Loughridge is an American businessman who was IBM's Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Finance and Enterprise Transformation. He stands as IBM's longest-tenured CFO after nearly 10 years in the role.
Christopher E. Kubasik is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of L3 Technologies, a provider of global ISR, communications and networked systems, and electronic systems for military, homeland security and commercial aviation customers. In this position, he is responsible for leading the execution of L3’s strategic growth objectives. On July 19, 2017, the L3 Board elected Kubasik to the position of CEO and President, and to the Board of Directors effective January 1, 2018.
Bhaskar Pramanik was the former Chairman of Microsoft India. He looked after the company's overall sales, marketing and all other transactions across India. He retired from Microsoft in September 2017.
Tom Szkutak was Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and senior vice president at Amazon.com. Szkutak joined Amazon.com in October 2002 after 20 years at General Electric. On September 3, 2014, it was announced Szkutak will be leaving Amazon in June 2015 to pursue other interests and spend more time with his family. He was succeeded by Brian Olsavsky in late 2015.
Nelson Joosuk Chai is an American investment banker and financial executive. He formerly served as the chief financial officer of American financial services company Merrill Lynch and briefly as Bank of America's president for the Asia-Pacific region. He is the former president of CIT Group and reported directly to then CEO John Thain. On August 21, 2018, it was announced that Chai has been hired as the chief financial officer of Uber
Scott Jon Freidheim is an American businessman specializing in turnarounds. From 2014 to 2016, he was President and CEO of CDI Corporation in Philadelphia.
Nikesh Arora is an Indian businessman who served as a former Google executive. He later served as the president for SoftBank Group, joining the company in October 2014 until stepping down on 21 June 2016. On 1 June 2018 Arora took on the role of CEO and chairman at Palo Alto Networks.
Dr. Wallace E. Boston Jr. is CEO of Charles Town, WV-based American Public Education, Inc. (APEI), parent company of American Public University System (APUS) and author of wallyboston.com. He joined APUS as Executive VP and CFO in September 2002, and was promoted to President and CEO in June 2004. In that role, and as a member of the APUS Board of Trustees, he led efforts to achieve Title IV participation and regional accreditation with the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association in 2006, and also to achieve specialty accreditation for certain degree programs such as business administration. Dr. Boston guided APUS through its accreditation with the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association in 2006, and in 2007, he led APEI to a successful initial public offering on the NASDAQ Exchange. In 2010, Dr. Boston was interviewed by the New York Times for striking a strategic agreement for APUS to provide distance education services for Walmart Associates.
Luca Maestri is the Senior Vice president and Chief Financial Officer at Apple Inc.
Harry Eugene Black is former City Manager of Cincinnati, Ohio. He took office September 8, 2014, and was responsible for the day-to-day government operations of Ohio's third largest city. He resigned from the position April 21, 2018. Before coming to Cincinnati, Black served as finance director of the City of Baltimore. Before that he held leadership roles such as CEO, CFO and COO in both the private and public sector in cities across the country.
Robyn M. Denholm is an Australian business executive. She succeeded Elon Musk as chairman of Tesla, Inc. in November 2018.
