On Tuesday, March 24, 2015, President Barack Obama named Silicon valley veteran Jason Goldman as the White House’s first-ever Chief Digital Officer. “As the first-ever Chief Digital Officer at the White House, Jason Goldman brings new energy and coveted expertise as someone who’s helped shape the digital age,” President Obama said, according to Politico, which first reported the […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for January 2015
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, which includes the following features: New Chief Digital Officer placements from January 2015: Congratulations to the new Chief Digital Officers at Agency Creative, Harland Clarke Holdings, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Nobel Media, and TNS, among others. Welcome to the CDO Club! Chief Digital Officer ‘movers and […]
3 Things Every Chief Digital Officer Needs to Know to Become a Board Director
Despite the phenomenal growth in the number of Chief Digital Officers and Chief Data Officers, it appears—oddly—that the majority of corporate boards still lack digital depth. “This is crazy!” said David Mathison, founder of the CDO Club and curator of the CDO Summit, when discussing the digital talent gap in the boardroom during his CDO […]
Resource Guide: Preparing for the Tidal Wave of Chief Data Officer Jobs (SXSW)
As we mentioned last week in our CDO JOBS Update for Chief Data Officers, in 2012, the Harvard Business Review named the Chief Data Scientist as the ‘sexiest job of the 21st Century‘. Just last month, one of the co-authors of that article, D.J. Patil, was named the first-ever Chief Data Scientist of the U.S. This […]