Go-to-market
10 chief commercial officers
Each of these ten people currently serves as a chief commercial officer, the executive who owns a company's commercial agenda. Readers can learn how a chief commercial officer organizes sales, marketing and business development, sets commercial priorities and works with the rest of the leadership team.
Professionals to explore
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LinkedInExperience: Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) · Rio Tinto
Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at Rio Tinto since 2024; his profile says he leads the global Commercial team, which includes sales and marketing, procurement, marine and logistics, and is responsible for business development for the Group and key external partnerships, including joint venture relationships. He was Chief Executive, Copper, Member of ExCo at Rio Tinto (2021–2024).
Chris Turner
LinkedInExperience: Chief Commercial Officer · Pivot Bio
Chief Commercial Officer at Pivot Bio since 2024; his profile says he leads the global commercial organization of the sustainable agriculture company and serves as a member of its executive leadership team. He was US Country Division Head at Bayer (2020–2024), Senior Vice President US Commercial Operations at Bayer (2019–2020) and Global Crop Protection Lead at Monsanto Company (2016–2018).
Cristian Frankic
LinkedInExperience: Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) · ASSA ABLOY Group
Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at ASSA ABLOY Group since 2020, and former Vice President Business Development, EMEA at ASSA ABLOY Group (2011–2020). His profile describes orchestrating and deploying commercial excellence initiatives and balancing decentralized, diverse stakeholders to drive business transformation. He was also Senior Manager, Strategic Marketing, Office of the Chairman PAG Group at Ford Motor Company (2007–2009).
Erik Severinson
LinkedInExperience: Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) · Volvo Cars
Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at Volvo Cars since 2025, a C-level role in the company's general management. His Volvo Cars roles also include Chief Product & Strategy Officer (2024–2025), Head of Strategy & Program Management (2022–2024) and Head of Industrial Strategy (2020–2022), and he was Director Program Finance at Volvo Car Group (2012–2015).
John Cusack
LinkedInExperience: Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) · 3Shape
Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at 3Shape since 2025; his profile says he leads global commercial operations for 3Shape, covering sales, marketing and business development, in dental technology and medtech. His 3Shape roles also include SVP & General Manager. North America (2024–2025), General Manager, North America (2021–2024) and Vice President, EMEA Sales (2020–2021).
Mark Nelson
LinkedInExperience: Chief Commercial Officer · Coherent Corp.
Chief Commercial Officer at Coherent Corp. since May 2025. He was Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Application Engineering at Lattice Semiconductor (2019–2025), VP Sales, Application Engineering, Technical Services, Programmable Solutions Group at Intel (2016–2019) and SVP Worldwide Sales & Technical Services at Altera (2012–2015).
Nick Rico
LinkedInExperience: Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) · Lucid Software
Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at Lucid Software since 2024; his profile says he leads the company's customer acquisition strategy and oversees Growth Marketing, GTM Strategy and Operations, and Customer Experience. He was SVP Growth, GTM Strategy, and CX at Lucid Software (2020–2024) and Vice President of Growth (2019–2020), and has been an Advisor at Fullcast since 2024.
Stephen Lusk
LinkedInExperience: Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) · Coca-Cola Europacific Partners
Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at Coca-Cola Europacific Partners since 2021, and former VP Commercial at the same company (2017–2021). He was also CEO, Bottling Investment Group, Singapore, Malaysia & Brunei at The Coca-Cola Company (2014–2017) and Vorstand Director Supply Chain at Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (2009–2014).
Tolga Tanguler
LinkedInExperience: Executive Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer · Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
Executive Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals since 2020, and Member Board of Directors at Lexeo Therapeutics since 2024. He was Senior Vice President, Head of US Organization at Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (2018–2020) and President, North America, Rare Disease Group at Pfizer (2016–2018); his profile headline describes him as a CCO and board member in global biotech and pharma.
Yassir Ghiyati
LinkedInExperience: Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) · Topsoe
Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at Topsoe since 2026; his profile says he leads Topsoe's core commercial offerings across global markets, spanning technologies such as HydroFlex, WSA, eREACT and SynCOR as well as the company's catalyst business. At Topsoe he was also Vice President & Managing Director - EMEA (2022–2026) and Product line Director - Hydrogen (2020–2022).
Choose the right perspective
Match the officer's industry and business model, for example consumer products, life sciences, industrial technology or software, to your own go-to-market. Ask what their commercial remit actually covers, since the chief commercial officer role ranges from sales alone to marketing, business development, procurement and customer experience.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How should responsibilities be split between a chief commercial officer and the heads of sales, marketing and customer success?
- 02Which commercial metrics and planning cadence do you use to run the revenue side of the business?
- 03When does a company need a chief commercial officer rather than a senior sales or marketing leader?
Reaching chief commercial officers
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