Chief Visionary Officer

Chief visionary officer (CVO) (dt. About (Managing) board member for (business) Visions ) is the name of a task in the business management.

It represents an interface between the CEO (director, managing director, chairman of the supervisory board), CFO (financing) and COO (operational business areas). It often happens that the CVO also takes on additional corporate management tasks.

A CVO is expected to have a very wide range of specialist knowledge from many areas. In addition to the entrepreneurial core competencies, the visionary ideas are the main content of this task. Ultimately, the CVO is responsible for ensuring that long-term perspectives and strategies and implementation plans derived from them can be developed for the company.

Examples

The first official CVO was Tim Roberts , the entrepreneurial founder of the Broadband Investment Group .

In 2003 Bill Gates made the decision to step down as CEO and to actively support Microsoft's development as CVO .

Another CVO is Tom Groth at Sun Microsystems .