deputy chairman
Board's backup leader
A deputy chairman is the second-ranking officer of a board or committee, positioned to act in the chairman's absence or assist with leadership duties.
The role appears most often in corporate governance and governmental bodies: The deputy chairman presided over the meeting while the chairman was abroad.
Some organizations have multiple deputy chairmen with divided responsibilities.
- second in commandSubordinate who assumes leadership
- boardFlat rigid panel
- board meetingFormal executive gathering
- executiveSenior organizational leader
- second-in-commandImmediate subordinate to leader
next in line · treasurer · secretary · committee · corporate governance · director · corner office · power structure · appointee · delegate · proxy · understudy · succession · gavel · boardroom · executive committee · hierarchy · council
- Corporate LeadershipCEO, CFO, COO, CTO, CIO
- Soviet Officialsapparatchik, commissar, general secretary, first secretary, party secretary
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Head of a board
chair · chairperson · president · chief executive · CEO
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