The new CxO gang: data, AI, and robotics

Apparently, it is a new role born in a lighter form straight after the financial crisis springing from the need to have a central figure to deal with technology, regulation and reporting. Therefore, the CDO is basically the guy who acts as a liaison between the CTO (tech guy) and the CAO/Head of Data Science (data guy) and takes care of data quality and data management. Actually, its final goal is to guarantee that everyone can get access to the right data in virtually no time. It is not a static role, and it evolved from simply being a facilitator to being a data governor, with the tasks of defining data management policies and business priorities, shaping not only the data strategy, but also the frameworks, procedures, and tools. In other words, he is a kind of'Chief of Data Engineers' (if we agree on the distinctions between data scientists, who actually deal with modeling, and data engineers, who deal with data preparation and data flow).