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CTO

CTO

1 7.0
An executive who plans and leads big changes in an organization
  • noun
  • Jargon
translation icon : director de transformación
  • The Seattle-based company lists four co-founders, including CEO Robi Ganguly, a tech veteran who formerly worked for Yahoo, and CTO Mike Saffitz, who recently worked on Windows Phone for Microsoft.

Examples

  • As the CTO, her main role is to oversee the planning and execution of major change projects within the organization.

  • The new CTO will lead the company's transformation initiatives to improve efficiency and innovation.

  • I am an experienced software development manager, project manager, and CTO focused on hard problems in software development and maintenance, software quality, and security.

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  • So I convinced him to leave his own game studio to come and be the CTO of Oculus.

  • Efforts to open government data there have led to both progress and direction, as Chicago CTO John Tolva blogged in January:

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  • Hear from these three designers at RoadMap as well as the CTO of Ford, Paul Mascarenas.

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  • And no surprise to see that he is CTO and Co founder of the Organic Robotics Corporation NEO.

  • The EasyNet Group: Founded in 1994 as one of the first ISPs in Europe, Teare was CTO and co-founder.

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  • While practically every CIO and CTO of every large and mid-sized enterprise proclaims that they never want to build another data center, revenue for data center hardware, software, and services continues to grow.

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  • Last week, while participating in a strategic planning session for the Houston Association of Realtors, I marveled at the things their CTO Taqi Rivzi and his team built.

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Synonyms

12 4.5

A senior manager who makes important plans and decisions for a company

focuses on planning and leading major transformation initiatives

A person who leads planning and sets the main strategy for a group

focuses specifically on initiating and guiding major organizational change

How Senior

CTO
  • Jargon
1 7.0
coordinator
178 3.7

Surface Forms

CTO singular
CTOs plural

Etymology

CTO as a business title stands for Chief, Transformation, Officer, and Transformation means a big 'change'. So a CTO in this sense is the senior leader who plans and leads major company changes.