Corporate Titles & their Abbreviations (CEO CFO CTO COO etc)

What are Corporate Titles or Job Titles?

Generally, in a company, the top level executives / senior managers including Directors are known or referred to by a short corporate title, which signifies their respective functional designations.

One of such corporate titles is quite popular in the corporate world, i.e. CEO, which you must be well aware of, while many other corporate titles are not that popular and used mostly in large scale companies or in startups.

Creative New Titles

In this new age world of constant innovations and creativity, many startups and even other organisations are coming out with their own sophisticated titles which aren't in use in other companies at all.

List of Corporate Titles

The list of such corporate titles, job titles & abbreviations for job designations is really too long. Hereunder, we have mentioned some of the popular ones.

Abbreviation (Short Forms)	Designations & Titles (Full Forms)
CAE	Chief Audit Executive
CAO	Chief Accounting Officer
CAO	Chief Administrative Officer
CAO	Chief Analytics Officer
CBDO	Chief Business Development Officer
CBO	Chief Brand Officer
CCO	Chief Compliance Officer
CCO	Chief Commercial officer
CCO	Chief Communications officer
CCO	Chief Content Officer
CCO	Chief Creative Officer
CDO	Chief Diversity Officer
CDO	Chief Design Officer
CDO	Chief Data Officer
CEO / CXO	Chief Executive Officer
CFO	Chief Financial Officer
CHRO	Chief Human Resources Officer
CIO	Chief Information Officer
CIO	Chief Investments Officer
CIO	Chief Innovation Officer
CISO	Chief Information Security Officer
CLO	Chief Legal Officer
CMD	Chairman and Managing Director
CMO	Chief Marketing Officer
CNO	Chief Networking Officer
COO	Chief Operating Officer
CRO	Chief Risk Officer
CRO	Chief Revenue Officer
CRO	Chief Relationship Officer
CSO	Chief Sales Officer
CSO	Chief Security Officer
CSO	Chief Strategy Officer
CTO	Chief Technology Officer
ED	Executive Director
MD	Managing Director
SVP	Senior Vice President

Some companies also appoint Chief Economist (CE) or Corporate Chief Economist (CCE) for advising on trade and economic issues.

If you would like us to add any additional title to the above list, please comment below.