CTO
- noun
- Jargon
- 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.
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As the CTO, her main role is to oversee the planning and execution of major change projects within the organization.
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The new CTO will lead the company's transformation initiatives to improve efficiency and innovation.
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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.
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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.
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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
A senior manager who makes important plans and decisions for a company
A person who leads planning and sets the main strategy for a group
How Senior
- Jargon
Surface Forms
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.