Timeline for Is there a significant difference in the titles "Vice President" and "Director"?
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| Jan 1, 2016 at 18:56 | vote | accept | Stephen Collings | ||
| Dec 14, 2015 at 13:58 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | In the US, in non-profit organizations, those who have a position equivalent to a for-profit VP, EVP, or even C-level could be called "Director" (e.g., "Director of FInance" instead of "CFO"), and the President/CEO would be called "Executive Director". But for a while now, that's been changing, and non-profit titles are being changed to more closely match for-profit titles, along with some non-profits being run more like for-profits (a mistake, IMHO, but totally not related to the question or answer). | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 12:18 | comment | added | Davor | I'd just like to add that "director" is usually legally defined role in Europe, and is basically the person legally responsible for the company, and the highest rank by default. | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 5:44 | comment | added | Dawny33 | @Kilisi Ha ha. Some places it is Director > VP, and some other places they are used interchangeably. Anyways, this is the view-point of a Silicon Valley CEO, so I included it :) | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 4:57 | comment | added | Kilisi | I read about half of it, +1 anyway | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 3:58 | history | answered | Dawny33 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |