CIOs, Meet Your New Colleagues: Chief Data, Analytics and AI Officers

Companies are increasingly creating new C-suite roles with a focus on data, analytics or artificial intelligence—to the confusion, and sometimes chagrin, of chief information officers and others who previously had oversight of data. 

As the use of data, analytics and AI becomes a board-level concern, thanks in part to the viral popularity of ChatGPT, more companies are appointing chief data officers, chief data and analytics officers, and chief AI officers, who are often directly reporting to CEOs, said Ryan Bulkoski, global head of executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles’ Data, Analytics & AI Practice.