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Congratulations to the following Chief Digital Officers:
Theo Blackwell: Chief Digital Officer for the Mayor of London (Sadiq Khan), Theo earned an MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) and was named in the Queen’s new year’s honours list for services to local government digital transformation!
Zack Hicks: Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer of Toyota Motor North America and Chief Executive Officer and President of Toyota Connected North America, Zack was awarded the Leadership Excellence Award from AIS (Association for Information Systems)!
Adam Sussman: Nike Chief Digital Officer Adam Sussman will assume an expanded role to become VP and General Manager for Nike Direct digital and geographies. Sussman will continue to oversee Nike digital.
Read more below about Theo, Zack, Adam, and the TWENTY-FIVE other CDOs who made the news in December 2018, including Finnair’s Katri Harra-Salonen; HM Revenue & Customs’ Jacky Wright; New York Public Library’s Tony Ageh; Novartis’ Bertrand Bodson; Pladis Global’s Anthoula Madden; Publicis Media’s Helen Lin; SAP’s Bertram Schulte; and Seven West Media’s Clive Dickens.
How did they make news? Find out below.
Looking for your dream job? You’ve come to the right place. Since Thursday, we added ten more open CDO jobs to our Career page, for a total of TWENTY-EIGHT open CDO postings (14 for Chief Digital Officers; 14 for Chief Data/Analytics Officers).
Theo Blackwell: December 30, 2018 Chief Digital Officer for the Mayor of London (Sadiq Khan), Theo was awarded an MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) and was named in the Queen’s new year’s honours list for services to local government digital transformation! Learn more
Zack Hicks: December 14, 2018
The Association for Information Systems (AIS) honored Zack Hicks, EVP and Chief Digital Officer of Toyota Motor North America, and CEO and President of Toyota Connected North America with the AIS Leadership Excellence Award on December 14, 2018, at the 39th Annual International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). Learn more
Adam Sussman: December 4, 2018
Adam Sussman, Nike’s Chief Digital Officer, will assume an expanded role to become VP & General Manager for Nike Direct digital and geographies. Adam will continue to oversee Nike digital and the consumer vision for digital products, experiences, services and capabilities, while taking on management responsibility of the four key Nike direct geographies. Learn more
These are just three of the 41 CDO articles we tracked in December 2018.
See all CDOs In The News here.
As our regular readers may recall, last Thursday we added eighteen new CDO jobs to our career portal. Today we added ten more open CDO positions, bringing the total of open jobs to TWENTY-EIGHT open CDO postings (14 for Chief Digital Officers; 14 for Chief Data/Analytics Officers).
Five of those open jobs are listed below, including Rhythm, Cigna, Haymarket, HSBC, and McKinsey.
Note that you need to have a SILVER CDO Club membership, at minimum, to view career posts.
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Chief Data Officer (Co-founder Position)
Rhythm is an early (stealth) stage pet wellness mission driven company backed by solid IP to radically impact the health, happiness and longevity of pets. Existing co-founders are looking for a seasoned technology leader to join the founding team to build and scale the technical core, a true Jack of All, Master of One or More. This position will be responsible for establishing short and long term strategy, and hands-on tactical implementation of a technology ecosystem that incorporates large scale data, cloud-based marine learning, IoT consumer electronics products, all Bluetooth / WiFi communication layers and protocols (IoT-to-APP-to-cloud) and master integration into to manufacturing ERP/MRP systems, e-commence, logistics, security and data analytics. The position will also select, implement and manage all operations back office and customer facing solutions. Send email for more info
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Bloomfield, US-CT
Chief Digital Officer
New Jersey, US
Director, Chief Data Officer, Asia Pacific – Global Banking and Markets
Hong Kong, HK
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Dorchester Center
We currently have 28 open CDO jobs posted on our career page.
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Are you looking to fill a critical digital or data role at your organization? Are you a CHRO, hiring/talent manager, or executive recruiter having a hard time sourcing seasoned digital/data executives?
We have been a leader in this field since 2011, when David Mathison first incubated the CDO Club and CDO Summits at a boutique executive search firm in NYC, as founder and Managing Director of their Digital Media practice.
Unlike other search firms, we leverage the power of our CDO Club membership, global CDO Summits, and an extensive email list specializing in digital and data, which allow us to create shortlists quickly, without sacrificing candidate quality.
The following sets us apart from traditional executive search firms:
We have a thorough and intimate understanding of the global digital and data talent market.
We know which companies are hiring for digital and data leaders, all over the world.
We also help companies identify and place digital and data leaders for Board Director and Non-Executive Director (NED) roles.
We have direct access to 5,000+ CDO Club registered members, part of our extensive database of qualified executives. And our global email list is five times that size.
We leverage our global CDO Summits to identify and showcase the world’s leading digital and data executives. Summits have been held in NYC (our 7th year), London (our 4th year), Sydney, Tokyo, Tel Aviv (3rd year), Amsterdam, Istanbul, Washington DC, and Toronto (2nd year). Summits are also planned for Bangalore, Berlin, Dubai, Mumbai, and Singapore.
Our publications and research, such as the first-ever CDO Talent Map (2013), and our May 2018 report with Bain Capital on “101 CDOs Who Have Become CDO” have made us the definitive ‘go-to’ resource on digital and data leaders for recruiters, CHROs, hiring managers, analysts, and the press/media.
Our twice-monthly CDO JOBS Update emailers, such as this one, provide a unique, exclusive, and powerful look at three important stats: CDOs who have been hired each month, the companies that are looking to hire CDOs, and CDOs in the news. It is further proof that we have our finger on the pulse of this rapidly evolving market.
We leverage the power of our new initiative, IXI (Innovation Exchange Inc.), an AI-based Talent Platform that matches digital and data experts and C-suite executives with targeted opportunities.
The services above enable us to create pre-qualified, pre-vetted “short lists” of candidates that allow us to source and place candidates rapidly for even the most challenging leadership roles quickly, without sacrificing candidate quality.
Good news for CDOs:
The war for talent continues in the C-suite and at PE firms
There is a “leadership crisis” unfolding at Private Equity firms and their portfolio companies, where executives are expected to hit the ground running to manage turnarounds, succession planning, change management, and to identify and deliver new products and revenue streams in an increasingly competitive and disruptive business environment.
Hence the importance of experienced CDOs to PE groups such as Bain Capital, Carlyle Group, Providence Equity Partners, KKR, Apollo Global, Blackstone, and their portfolio companies.
According to a recent report by Hunt-Scanlon, “the PE sector can expect to see an expanding bidding war for top talent over the next decade. Driving the trend: persistent global talent shortages across the C-suite in most industries and functions, including finance, healthcare, biotech, digital, and technology.
Value creation for PE firms is no longer beholden to financial engineering. Instead, returns are best maximized by building top flight management teams to drive revenue, find operating efficiencies and transform culture. Leadership is the new bottom line for PE operating executives seeking top talent for their portfolio businesses.”
Our goal at the CDO Club is is to help our members prepare for these important positions.
In 2018 for example, Bain Capital and the CDO Club co-published a report on ‘101 CDOs Who Have Become CEO,’ which listed 101 Chief Digital Officers and Chief Data Officers who have become Chief Executive Officer or President since 2011.
The phenomenon is occurring globally, across sectors, and at organizations of all sizes.
“The increase in the number of digital and data leaders taking the CEO role demonstrates the critical importance of having seasoned online veterans at the helm of organizations today,” said David Mathison, CEO of the CDO Club. “The CDO Club congratulates those who have made this transition, and we continue to provide resources to help others gain the skills, connections, and training required to do the same.”
The CDO Club is the only organization tracking this important trend – see our “Hall of Fame” page.
You can download the report here or via the link below.
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For many vendors, its become increasingly difficult to keep track of who is in charge at their client’s organizations. Shifting budgets, internal battles over head-count, new decision-makers in the C-Suite. Almost every sector has been affected.
Seasoned leaders with experience in digital transformation and data-driven culture are increasingly getting the keys to the kingdom, reporting to the CEO and the Board.
We’ve been tracking this shift since 2011, when there were only a few hundred CDOs on earth. Now, thousands of people hold those titles.
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Zack Hicks: December 14, 2018
Adam Sussman: December 4, 2018
