The New Pipeline: CPO to CEO - Egon Zehnder
Where will the next generation of CEOs come from? Your mind may go to the more traditional pathways of COOs and CFOs, but what you may not have considered is the next CEO may currently be a Chief Product Officer (CPO).
Where will the next generation of CEOs come from? Your mind may go to the more traditional pathways of COOs and CFOs, but what you may not have considered is the next CEO may currently be a Chief Product Officer (CPO). Today, Product may not be a traditional path to the top job, but the software industry is challenging that calculus. In software, where fundamentally the company IS the product, CPO has been a stepping stone to CEO. Sundar Pichai of Google is a good example. Pichai joined Google in 2004, where he led the product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's client so
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