c-suite

The group of officers of a business organization who have the word chief in their titles.

Near-synonym: CXO

THE customer is king. So some firms have started appointing chief customer officers (CCOs) to serve the king more attentively. These new additions to the (already crowded) C-suite are supposed to look at the business from the customer’s point of view.

Senior headquarters executives: the chiefs and their immediate subordinates.