Acadamia often makes up inflated titles for themselves in several ways. A professor starts an "institute" which is just a banner slapped on their work, and now

Acadamia often makes up inflated titles for themselves in several ways. A professor starts an "institute" which is just a banner slapped on their work, and now they are the "Director of the Institute for the Study of...". Or they get a donation from some rich person and they add the rich persons name as a title, as in "I. Am Important, the Dovey and Sam Pekinpaw professor of Engineering". Or they join a group of their colloborators and give out awards to themselves and add the award names to their titles as in "I. Also Important, the International Superior Professor". Or they give their group of grad students and their workspace a name as in "Aint I. Great, Director of the Great Research Lab". Many of them collect multiple such titles which can make their titles go on to fill a large paragraph. Some of the titles have merit, some are selling their name to get donations, some are entirely made up. You can do the same. Take your side project, call it a company, and now you are CEO of that company. You don't even need to incorporate the company or give info about it (you are in "stealth mode").