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DEFINITION of 'C-Suite'. A widely-used slang term used to collectively refer to a corporation's most important senior executives. C-Suite gets its name because top senior executives' titles tend to start with the letter C, for chief, as in chief executive officer, chief operating officer and chief information officer.
The fast track to manager and executive levels. What might be most impressive about the program is the number of high-level executives who have participated in the corporate audit staff journey. An amazing 80% of GE's top CFOs were CAS program members. Those CFOs are responsible for GE's seven industrial segments, its global growth organization, and GE Capital.