The director of marketing in my firm has a PhD in Physics. Every technical talk with him is a breeze. He gets data, complexity, the fact that sometimes easy pro

The director of marketing in my firm has a PhD in Physics. Every technical talk with him is a breeze. He gets data, complexity, the fact that sometimes easy problems are hard and that tech needs proper support. Point being: management skills are not technical skills, but technical skills or affinity sure help. Perhaps smaller firms the CTO should be a good programmer, but in any firm the CTO should be the one standing for tech and building bridges between tech and non-tech.