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 […]
CDO Summit Photo Gallery
Teddy Goff: Digital Director, President Barack Obama’s 2008 & 2012 campaigns
Rachel S. Haot: US CDO of the Year 2014
Michael Doernberg, Brian Lakamp, Eric Garland, Bill Campbell, and Dick Wingate
Riley McDonough (Thomson Reuters) and Vivian Schiller (NBC News)
Michael Smith: President at Forbes.com
Fred Santarpia: Chief Digital Officer at Conde Nast
Ellie Hirschhorn: Chief Digital Officer at Simon & Schuster
Daniel Heaf, Jason Seiken, Albert Cheng, Jason Tafler, and Esmeralda Swartz
Daniel Heaf, Jason Seiken, and Albert Cheng
Margaret Molloy and Mary Ann Pierce
Michael Smith, Fred Santarpia, David Kang, Joe Bilman, and Ellie Hirschhorn
David Kang (Wenner Media) and Joe Bilman (American Media Inc.)
Chief Digital Officers Bernardo Rodriguez, Perry Hewitt, and Sree Sreenivasan
Ana Serrano, Elizabeth Scott, Christine Montgomery, and Tom Hjelm
Participants
Ana Serrano: Chief Digital Officer at Canadian Film Centre
Mayer Danzig, Jonathan Sackett, Josh Golden, and Angela Wei
Jane Barratt: Chief Operating Officer at mcgarrybowen
Daniel Backhaus
Jörg Malang, George Gollub, and Mark Keys
Bill Campbell: SVP, Digital Business at Universal Music Group
Scott Singer (DDG), Perry Hewitt (Harvard University), and David Payne (Gannett)
Margaret Molloy, Christine Montgomery, and Janet Scardino
Harriet Seitler, Katerina Markov, Laxmi Wordham, and Rosemary Maggiore
Jason Seiken (PBS) and Tom Hjelm (New York Public Radio)
David Payne: Senior Vice President and CDO at Gannett Co., Inc.
David Shing: Digital Prophet at AOL
Elizabeth Scott: Chief Media and Digital Officer at Lincoln Center
David Chivers, Chris Hooven, Jonathan Sackett, and David Shing
Participants
David Mathison, Chan Suh, and Jay Rosenzweig
Angela Wei: Managing Director at AGENCY (Milk Studios)
Linda Perry-Lube, Thomas Gensemer, David Richeson, Steve Rubel, and Scott Schneider
Scott Swartz, Jeremy Legg, Mehul Nagrani, and Joe Ruffolo
Cammie Croft, Jay Geneske, and Laxmi Wordham
Eric Hellweg (Harvard Business Review), Perry Hewitt (Harvard University), and Sree Sreenivasan (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Kristen O’Hara, Thomas Gewecke, Dan Suratt, Kristin Frank, and Lisa Hsia
Daniel Heaf, David Payne, Justin Tobin, and Eric Hellweg

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 […]

From Chief Digital Officer to CEO: 6 Tips from HarperCollinsUK CEO Charlie Redmayne
“The reason that I’m the CEO of HarperCollins is that my business is fundamentally challenged by the things that I do,” said Charlie Redmayne, CEO at HarperCollins U.K., at the inaugural U.K. Chief Digital Officer Summit at the BBC in London, England, on October 29, 2014. “All of our businesses are fundamentally challenged by the things […]