Corporate titles or business titles are given to corporate officers to show what duties and responsibilities they have in the organization. Such titles are used by publicly and privately held for-profit corporations, cooperatives, non-profit organizations, educational institutions, partnerships, and sole proprietorships that also confer corporate titles.
Chief information officer (CIO), chief digital information officer (CDIO) or information technology (IT) director, is a job title commonly given to the most senior executive in an enterprise who works with information technology and computer systems, in order to support enterprise goals.
A chief technology officer (CTO) is an officer tasked with managing technical operations of an organization. They oversee and supervise research and development and serve as a technical advisor to a higher executive such as a chief executive officer.
Isaac Robert "Ike" Nassi, born 1949 in Brooklyn, New York, is the founder, and former CTO and chairman at TidalScale, Inc. before its acquisition by HPE, and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is known for creating the highly influential Nassi–Shneiderman diagram notation. He also helped design the Ada programming language.
Padmasree Warrior is an Indian-American businesswoman and technology executive. She is known for her leadership roles in technology firms like Cisco where she served as the CTO for seven years, and at Motorola where she was the CTO for five years. She also served as the CEO of Nio USA, an electric car maker. Currently, she is the founder and CEO of Fable, a curated reading platform focused on mental wellness. She also serves on the board of directors of Microsoft and Spotify.
Werner Hans Peter Vogels is the chief technology officer and vice president of Amazon in charge of driving technology innovation within the company. Vogels has broad internal and external responsibilities.
Chuck Hull is the co-founder, executive vice president and chief technology officer of 3D Systems. He is one of the inventors of the SLA 3D printer, the first commercial rapid prototyping technology, and the widely used STL file format. He is named on more than 60 U.S. patents as well as other patents around the world in the fields of ion optics and rapid prototyping. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014 and in 2017 was one of the first inductees into the TCT Hall of Fame.
Simon Beresford-Wylie is the CEO of Imagination Technologies, a UK-based supplier of semiconductor intellectual property. Prior to joining Imagination in October 2020, Beresford-Wylie was the CEO of Arqiva, a UK leader in the provision of communications, broadcast and media services. Prior to joining Arqiva in 2015, he was Global Executive Advisor and Executive Vice President to the networks business unit of Samsung Electronics. He was the former president and CEO of Nokia Siemens Networks and a member of the group executive board of Nokia Corporation from February 2005 to October 2009. He was a member of the board of directors of the Vitec Group from 1 March 2006 until 30 November 2013.
Mark D. Papermaster is an American business executive currently serving as the chief technology officer (CTO) and executive vice president for technology and engineering at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). On January 25, 2019 he was promoted to AMD's Executive Vice President. Papermaster previously worked at IBM from 1982 to 2008, where he was closely involved in the development of PowerPC technology and served two years as vice president of IBM's blade server division. Papermaster's decision to move from IBM to Apple Inc. in 2008 became central to a court case considering the validity and scope of an employee non-compete clause in the technology industry. He became senior vice president of devices hardware engineering at Apple in 2009, with oversight for devices such as the iPhone. In 2010 he left Apple and joined Cisco Systems as a VP of the company's silicon engineering development. Papermaster joined AMD on October 24, 2011, assuming oversight for all of AMD's technology teams and the creation of all of AMD's products, and AMD's corporate technical direction.
Richard Green is an American business executive.
Chris Cookson was the President of Sony Pictures Technologies, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Chief Officer, Sony 3D Technology Center, Sony Corporation of America. As President of Sony Pictures Technologies, Cookson oversaw the development and implementation of the studio's technology policy and processes. He also served as Sony Pictures’ chief liaison with other Sony Corporation businesses in the area of technology. Cookson holds more than 50 U.S. patents, including several involving DVDs, and has been leading the effort to maintain high standards of quality on theatrical digital post-production technologies.
Raji Arasu is an Indian American technology executive. She currently is the executive vice president and chief technology officer of Autodesk, where she drives the company's technology strategy to accelerate connectivity, intelligence, and productivity for customers, partners, and development teams. Previously as SVP of Platform Engineering at Intuit, Raji helped shape the platform strategy and technology culture, led the company's cloud transformation, and expanded foundational core capabilities that amplified innovation for customers.
David Maher is a computer scientist and the chief technology officer and executive vice president of Intertrust Technologies. He is also a Bell Labs Fellow and was chief architect for AT&T's STU-III secure voice, data and video products used by the White House and the United States Department of Defense.
Michael Joseph Frendo is a Canadian engineer and investor. Frendo was one of the founders of Cisco Systems technology brands. He is the former Executive Vice President of Polycom. Frendo has recently become the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the internet security company, Proofpoint.
Elissa E. Murphy is an American software engineer, and the Vice President of Engineering at Google. Before working at Google, she was the Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Platforms at GoDaddy. She previously worked at Yahoo! as the Vice President of Engineering.
George Kurtz is the co-founder and CEO of cybersecurity company CrowdStrike and an American racing driver. He was also the founder of Foundstone and chief technology officer of McAfee.
Kevin Scott serves as Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft. He was previously Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations at LinkedIn from February 2011 to January 2017.
George Kurian is an Indian-American business executive. He is the current chief executive officer and a member of the board of NetApp. Prior to this, he was the Executive Vice President of Product Operations at NetApp.
Aaron LaBerge is an American technology executive and the chief technology officer (CTO) of Disney Entertainment and ESPN. He has been recognised as an innovator in content delivery and sports coverage.
Sabine Klauke is a German aerospace executive who is Chief Technical Officer (CTO) and Executive Vice President (EVP) Engineering for the Commercial Aircraft Business at Airbus. As such, she is also a member of the company's executive committee since July 2021.
