A chief visionary officer (CVO) is a function within a company normally established beside the other executive functions like CEO or COO. He has to work as an intermediary between these classical functions and the necessity of looking up the line for the upcoming years. The person in charge must have the core-competencies of every business-executive, but in addition the visionary ideas must bring the company ahead. Based on these ideas corporate strategies and working plans have to be defined. Quite often, the CEO is the CVO. The first CVO, and inventor of the title, was Tim Roberts of Broadband Investment Group. Other names are Tom Groth from Sun Microsystems and of course Bill Gates from Microsoft. This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ... This page is a candidate to be copied to Wiktionary. ... Sun Microsystems, Inc. ... William Henry Bill Gates III, (born October 28, 1955) is the co-founder, chairman, and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation, the worlds largest computer software company. ... Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKEx: 4338) is the worlds largest software company, with 2005 global annual sales of almost $40 billion USD and nearly 60,000 employees in 85 countries and regions. ...