A chief executive officer (CEO, American English), managing director (MD, British English), executive director (ED, American English) for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer (executive) or administrator in charge of total management of an organization. An individual appointed as a CEO of a corporation, company, organization, or agency typically reports to the board of directors.

Responsibilities

The responsibilities of an organization's CEO (US) or MD (UK) are set by the organization's board of directors or other authority, depending on the organization's legal structure. They can be far-reaching or quite limited and are typically enshrined in a formal delegation of authority.

Typically, the CEO/MD has responsibilities as a communicator, decision maker, leader, and manager. The communicator role can involve the press and the rest of the outside world, as well as the organization's management and employees; the decision-making role involves high-level decisions about policy and strategy. As a leader, the CEO/MD advises the board of directors, motivates employees, and drives change within the organization. As a manager, the CEO/MD presides over the organization's day-to-day, month-to-month, and year-to-year operations.

International use

In some European Union countries, there are two separate boards, one executive board for the day-to-day business and one supervisory board for control purposes (selected by the shareholders). In these countries, the CEO presides over the executive board and the chairman presides over the supervisory board, and these two roles will always be held by different people. This ensures a distinction between management by the executive board and governance by the supervisory board. This allows for clear lines of authority. The aim is to prevent a conflict of interest and too much power being concentrated in the hands of one person. In the United States, the board of directors (elected by the shareholders) is often equivalent to the supervisory board, while the executive board may often be known as the executive committee (the division/subsidiary heads and C-level officers that report directly to the CEO).

In other parts of the world, such as Asia, it is possible to have two or three CEOs in charge of one corporation. In the UK, many charities and government agencies are headed by a chief executive who answers to a board of trustees or board of directors. In the UK, similar to a sizable percentage of public companies in the US, the chairman of the board in public companies is more senior than the chief executive (who is usually known as the managing director).

The following presents an alphabetical list of some international common terms for the CEO position:

(eg)''Al-Ra'ees Al-Tanfizi'' / (sa)''Al-Ra'ees Al-Tanfithee'' (Chief Executive)

Australia: general manager (GM) (or also managing director (MD), but only when the executive officeholder is also a member of the board of directors)

(Director General/GM/MD/CEO) ''Generalen direktor/Izpalnitelen direktor'' ''Shǒuxí zhíxíng guān / xíngzhèng zǒngcái'' (Chief Executive Officer) (administrating director) (Adm.Dir.) (general manager) (executive director) (executive director) (TJ) (chairman & chief executive) (PDG) (GmbH) or (AG) (General director) ''Diefthinon Symvoulos'' (Managing Director) ''Mankal/Menahel Klali'' (DG/Director General)

India: CEO or managing director (MD)

(POF) (delegated administrator) (AD) ''Saikō-keiei-sekinin-sha'' (Chief Executive Officer) ''choe-go-gyeong-young-chek-ime-ja'' (Chief Executive Officer) (chairman of the board) (general director) (izvrshen direktor - executive director) or also (generalen direktor - general director) (Chief Executive) (administrating director) (adm. dir.) ''Modir Aamel'' (Chief Executive)

Pakistan|چیف ایگزیکٹو آفیسر}} ''Chif Igzikutu Afisr'' (Chief Executive Officer/Managing Director)

(general director) (PCA) (generalnyi direktor – general director) (CEO / MD) (executive director) ''Chif Igzikutu Afisr'' (Chief Executive Officer)

In the United States, and in business, the executive officers are usually the top officers of a corporation, the chief executive officer (CEO) being the best-known type. The definition varies; for instance, the California Corporate Disclosure Act defines "Executive Officers" as the five most highly compensated officers not also sitting on the board of directors. In the case of a sole proprietorship, an executive officer is the sole proprietor. In the case of a partnership, an executive officer is a managing partner, senior partner, or administrative partner. In the case of a limited liability company, an executive officer is any member, manager, or officer.

Related positions

Typically, a CEO has several subordinate executives, each of whom has specific functional responsibilities.

Common associates include a chief business development officer (CBDO), chief financial officer (CFO), chief operating officer (COO), chief marketing officer (CMO), chief information officer (CIO), chief communications officer (CCO), chief legal officer (CLO), chief technology officer (CTO), chief risk officer (CRO), chief creative officer (CCO), chief compliance officer (CCO), chief audit executive (CAE), chief diversity officer (CDO), or chief human resources officer (CHRO).

Hospitals and healthcare organizations also often include a chief medical officer (CMO), a chief nursing officer (CNO), and a chief medical informatics officer (CMIO).

In the United Kingdom the term 'director' is used instead of 'chief officer'. Associates include the audit executive, business development director, chief executive, compliance director, creative director, director of communications, diversity director, financial director, human resources director, information technology director, legal affairs director, managing director (MD), marketing director, operations director and technical director.

See also

CEO succession

Executive officer

List of CEO books

List of chief executive officers

O*NET

United States Department of Labor

References

External links

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics - Top Executives: Description and Outlook

2008–2010 Study: CEOs Who Fired Most Workers Earned Highest Pay – video report by ''Democracy Now!''

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James Gresham Barrett (born February 14, 1961) is the former U.S. Representative for , serving from 2003 until 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district runs along the Savannah River in the northwestern part of the state.

Early life, education, and business career

Barrett was born in Westminster in Oconee County. Barrett attended The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina and graduated in 1983. He served in the United States Army from 1983 to 1987, attaining the rank of captain in the field artillery. Barrett managed the family's furniture store.

South Carolina legislature

He was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives and served from 1996 to 2002, and was assigned to the Education and Public Works Committee, Labor Commerce and Industry Committee, Rules Committee, and the School Choice Ad Hoc Committee. He was also the Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on Urban Growth. During the 2000 Presidential Election Barrett was a member of the George W. Bush for President South Carolina State Steering Committee.

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

Barrett won a congressional seat in 2002 to replace Lindsey Graham, who retired to run for the U.S. Senate, and took office in January 2003. He ran unopposed for reelection in 2004. In 2006, Barrett won reelection by defeating Democratic challenger Lee Ballenger with 63 percent of the vote. In 2008, he defeated Democrat Jane Ballard Dyer, carrying 65 percent of the vote.

Tenure

Barrett missed 571 votes as of March 31, 2010, more than any other member of the 111th House and totalling 43% of the votes since the beginning of this term.

According to the National Journal Barrett is among the most conservative members of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was endorsed by the National Rifle Association, National Right to Life Committee, and the National Federation of Independent Business.

In July 2006, Barrett was one of 33 members of the House of Representatives to vote against renewal of the Voting Rights Act. In 2007, he voted against the Democratic version of SCHIP. Barrett supports offshore drilling to make the United States energy independent. On April 15, 2008 Barrett became the 71st Co-Sponsor of the FairTax (H.R. 25). Following a 2009 Congressional pay raise that many felt unmerited, Congressman Barrett protested by giving his pay raise to Anderson Interfaith Ministries.

Barrett is a staunch advocate of a federal prohibition of online poker. In 2006, he cosponsored H.R. 4411, the Goodlatte-Leach Internet Gambling Prohibition Act and H.R. 4777, the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act. In 2008, he opposed H.R. 5767, the Payment Systems Protection Act (a bill that sought to place a moratorium on enforcement of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act while the U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve defined "unlawful Internet gambling").

In 2003, Barrett introduced the Stop Terrorist Entry Program Act (STEP). Barrett has announced he plans to update and reintroduce the act in 2010. The STEP Act updates and amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to bar the admission of individuals from countries listed by the Department of State as State Sponsors of Terrorism. The STEP Act, as introduced in 2003, would not only bar citizens from the list from ever entering the United States, but would also deport non-immigrant visa holders legally residing in the United States that are citizens of countries on the list. Though Barrett said that the updated STEP Act was in response to Fort Hood shooting and the failed bombing attempt on Northwest Airlines Flight 253, it was noted by Keith Olbermann that neither of the alleged perpetrators would have fallen under its restrictions. Alleged Flight 253 bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is a citizen of Nigeria, which is not listed as a state sponsor of terrorism, and alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan was born in Arlington, Virginia.

Committee assignments

Committee on Financial Services

*Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government-Sponsored Enterprises

*Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit

Committee on Foreign Affairs

*Subcommittee on Europe

*Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade

*Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia

Committee on Standards of Official Conduct

2010 Gubernatorial candidacy

In March 2009, Barrett announced his candidacy for Governor of South Carolina in the 2010 South Carolina gubernatorial election. Candidates for the Republican nomination included; State Attorney General Henry McMaster, State Lt. Governor Andre Bauer, Congressman Barrett, and State Representative Nikki Haley. Nikki Haley led the first nomination ballot with 49% of the vote on June 8, 2010, but did not meet the 50% threshold to win the nomination outright. This led to a run-off election on June 22, 2010, between Haley and the second-placed Barrett, which Haley won.

Personal life

Barrett is married to Natalie Barrett and has three children. He has served as a member of several boards, including as President of the Westminster Rotary Club, Chairman of the Oconee District Boy Scouts, President of the Westminster Chamber of Commerce, board member of the Oconee County Red Cross, member of the Oconee Kids Do Count Board, and coach of the Barrett's Furniture Pony League baseball team.

Barrett was named one of ''The Hill'''s Most Beautiful People on Capitol Hill for 2008, placing ninth and becoming the only congressperson or elected official in the top 10.

References

External links

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James "Jim" Goodnight (b. January 6, 1943) is the CEO of SAS Institute and is generally recognized as the wealthiest man in the state of North Carolina and one of the wealthiest in the world.

Biography

He was born in Salisbury, NC and lived in Greensboro, NC until his family moved to Wilmington, North Carolina when he was 12. As a youth, he often worked in his father's hardware store in Wilmington. His parents, Albert Goodnight and Dorothy Patterson Goodnight, are deceased. Even at a young age, mathematics and chemistry were his strongest subjects—thanks in part, he says, to a “wonderful chemistry teacher” at New Hanover High School. He applied to North Carolina State University in Raleigh and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and opted for NC State in part because of his friendship with Roman Gabriel, a star football player from Wilmington who went on to an All-American career as a quarterback for the Wolfpack. While attending State, Goodnight became friends with Bruce Griffith, who, with Goodnight's insight into technology, went on to become a billionaire in the forest products and private equity industries.

Goodnight fell in love with computers in the one computer course he took at NC State in his sophomore year. “In mid-stream, a light went on, and I fell in love, making machines which do things for other people,” he says. The following summer he got a job writing programs for the agricultural economics department. The intrigue never waned. A few years later, while working on his master's, his curiosity was piqued over the prospect of man being sent to the moon. His programming skills helped him land a position with a company building electronic equipment for the ground stations that would communicate with the Apollo space capsules. Goodnight met his wife, Ann, while he was a senior at NC State and she was attending Meredith College.

Goodnight also owns Prestonwood Country Club, located in Cary, North Carolina. Prestonwood is known for its restaurant the "Red Fox," as well as Larry Conner, a professional golfer in employment at Prestonwood.

Goodnight holds a doctorate in statistics from North Carolina State University, where he was a member of the faculty from 1972 to 1976. James Goodnight is also a member of the social fraternity Tau Kappa Epsilon. With contributions from other esteemed alumni in TKE, he was responsible for the building of a new fraternity house which was completed in 2002 and Goodnight continues to be extremely active with the Beta Beta Chapter. Over the years, improving the state of education (particularly elementary and secondary) has become an area of great interest to Goodnight. He is also the benefactor of Cary Academy, a private school near the SAS Campus.

He is still active in developing products for the company he runs. SAS Institute, which puts a quarter of its profits into research & development, develops business intelligence software. In 2004, Harvard Business School named him as one of the "20th Century’s Great American Business Leaders,". He speaks internationally on leadership, education and innovation.

According to the 2007 Forbes 400 list, he is worth 8.7 billion U.S. dollars. According to the 2010 Forbes 400 list, he is now worth 6.9 billion U.S. dollars.

See also

List of Americans by net worth

References

External links

Oral History Interview with Jim Goodnight from Oral Histories of the American South

SAS Institute

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Jason A. Kilar is the CEO of Hulu, a joint venture of ABC, NBC Universal, and NewsCorp. He was previously an Amazon executive. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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John Finan (10 September 1898 – 24 May 1984) was an Irish Clann na Talmhan politician. A farmer by profession, he first stood unsuccessfully for election to Dáil Éireann at the 1948 general election for the Roscommon constituency but he was subsequently elected to Seanad Éireann on the Administrative Panel. He was first elected to the Dáil at the 1951 general election as a Clann na Talmhan Teachta Dála (TD) for Roscommon. He lost his seat at the 1954 general election.

References

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