Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through September 2018.

Big news this month: more new Chief Digital Officers were hired in September 2018 than in any other month to date!

As our members know, we’ve been tracking this trend for more than seven years, and posting them in our biweekly JOB Updates since Q4 2014. See all the monthly links below.

And, as usual, the last few months have also seen more CDOs becoming CEO, President, and Board Directors at prestigious, global, publicly traded companies.

We recently co-published a report with Bain Capital on this career path, “101 CDOs who Became CEO,” which can be downloaded here. See our Hall of Fame page for the full list.

For example, over the last few months new additions include:

Jim Lanzone: CDO of CBS Corporation and CEO of CBS Interactive, joined the Board of GoPro Inc. (NASDAQ: GPRO)

Vijay Ravindran: Former SVP & CDO at Graham Holdings/Washington Post, joined the Board of McClatchy (NYSE:MNI)

Bala Subramanian: Chief Digital Officer at Best Buy, joined the Board of Cars.com (NYSE: CARS)

In addition to the tremendous global growth in Chief Digital Officer hires, the demand for Chief Data Officers continues to increase at a pace surpassing that of their digital colleagues.

This Thursday, we’ll post our Chief Data Officer JOB Update for September 2018.

We’ve got big plans for Q4 2018 – we are currently finishing up a $1.25m seed round for the launch our new initiative, Innovation Exchange (iXi), an online talent platform that uses AI to match executives with targeted jobs and opportunities. The goal of the platform is to help digital, data, and security leaders find their next dream job.

In 2019, we will raise our first round of capital for the CDO Club, and will re-launch that platform with more features to help our members get their jobs done efficiently and effectively.

Meantime, congratulations to all the new CDOs, and we wish all our members continued success!

In this issue, we list TWENTY-FOUR new CDO appointments for September alone; we tracked 40 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked SIXTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page!

• New Chief Digital Officer placements (through September 2018): TWENTY-FOUR new CDOs were hired in September alone, we provide the highlights below. Congratulations to the new Chief Digital Officers at Apleona, Coca-Cola India, Havas Edge, Maersk, Marks & Spencer, Neiman Marcus Group, Omnicom Media Group for Asia Pacific, and REI, among many others. Welcome to the CDO Club!
• Chief Digital Officers ‘In the News’: Consider us your personal CDO “news clippings” service. We tracked 40 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked SIXTEEN CDOs who made the news in September, including Carnival Cruise Line’s Kathy Mayor, Kopari Beauty’s Megan Whitman, MittMedia’s Robin Govik, New York Post’s Remy Stern, PANDORA’s Karl Walsh, The Jamie Oliver Group’s Darren Goldsby, and Volvo Cars’ Atif Rafiq! How did they make news? Find out inside.
• Open Chief Digital Officer Jobs: Inside, you’ll find open posts for Chief Digital Officers, Chief Data Officers, and other C-level digital and data positions. Be sure to review the open posts on our dedicated career page.

You’ll find the details on all this and more below.​

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If you are tasked with understanding what digital and data leaders must do in order to succeed in almost any industry, the best place to learn more is at the CDO Summit.

The CDO Summit is the “must-attend” digital event of the year. The 2013, 2014 and 2015 CDO Summits received stellar endorsements from dozens of speakers and attendees alike:

“Sometimes a conference comes along that hits the trifecta – hot topic, high-caliber attendees, and stellar location. The first Chief Digital Officer Summit reached that mark with ease, and I look forward to attending the next one.”

Eric Hellweg
Managing Director, Digital Strategy/Editorial Director
Harvard Business Review

“Congratulations and thanks to David Mathison for spotting the need for community and collaboration in the growing Chief Digital Officer space, and for having the wherewithal, network, and organizational talent to put together such a top-notch event in its inaugural year. Next year’s summit should be even more of a must-do for anyone working digital at senior levels in all kinds of businesses.”

Teddy Goff
Digital Director
President Barack Obama 2008 and 2012

“David, here’s a handy C^3 test for conference value: Did I learn at least three new perspectives? Check. Did I meet at least three interesting people? Check. Did I take back at least three relevant pieces of news I can use? Check. Flying colors for the Chief Digital Officer Summit 2013! Thank you so much, and yes, I’d be very pleased to participate next year!”

Perry Hewitt
Chief Digital Officer
Harvard University

“Congratulations to David Mathison and his team on the simply amazing job they did on the inaugural Chief Digital Officer Summit. Probably the most informative, insightful, on target, entertaining, collaborative, thought provoking, and inspiring conferences I have ever attended. I learned more about my business and what I do in the past 12 hours than I have from any research white paper, articles or blogs over the past 12 months. The range of topics and speakers assembled were incredibly diverse, informative, collaborative, and most of all, inspiring. It has invigorated me to be the best possible professional CDO I can be. David Mathison’s skills as a moderator were impeccable, bringing out the best of the speakers and keeping the conversation flowing. His intimate and insightful knowledge of this space is only out-shined by his humility and graciousness. Kudos to David and his organizing team.”

Mark Keys
Vice President, Client Solutions
Moving Interactive

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