Most boards can name their CFO, their CTO, their CMO. Ask them who governs the decisions that determine whether their data and AI investments actually deliver value — and you get silence. That gap is expensive. And it is more common than any organisation wants to admit. What the Role Actually Governs A Fractional Chief Data Officer sits above the technology layer. The CTO owns the infrastructure. The data engineers build the pipelines. The CDO governs the decisions that sit a
