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COO
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See Chief Operating Officer.
Chief Operating Officer
The manager of a company (often but not always a publicly-traded company) who is responsible for the overall day-to-day operations. That is, the COO ensures smoothness in the process of producing and distributing the company's goods or of providing its services. A COO is responsible to the CEO and the board of directors.


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There are many visible examples of COOs who made positive differences for the CEO and the company--Mort Topfer at Dell and Ray Lane at Oracle come quickly to mind.
These proceeds will be used to fund the development of the Company's Coos Bay project, exploration of its Washington State project and for general working capital.
Of 51 companies studied, about 55 percent had COOS in 1986; by 1999 that figure dropped to about 45 percent.
 
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