Non-executive directors
| Chairman/chairwoman
Chief executive/managing director
|
Chief financial officer/finance director
| Marketing
director
| Human resources
director
| IT director
| Research
director
| |
Accounts department manager
| Sales manager
| Customer
services manager
| |
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All the directors together are the board. They meet in the boardroom.
Non-executive directors are not managers of the company; they are outsiders, often directors of other companies who have particular knowledge of the industry or of particular areas.
The marketing director is the head of marketing, the IT director is the head of IT, etc. These people head or head up their departments. Informally, the head of an activity, a department or an organization is its boss.
An executive or, informally, an exec, is usually a manager at quite a high level (for example, a senior executive). But “executive” can be used in other contexts to suggest luxury, as in “executive coach” and “executive home”, even for things that are not actually used by executive