Greetings to all... taHiyaatii liljamii3...

I agree with the responses by colleagues, combined in the preceding post, about the literal accuracy of the equivalent Arabic expression for CEO & GM and its considerable use in some Arabic media, per the good examples cited.

May one mention that this combination of titles is much derived from a tendency since the 1980s of writers of "US Business English" to inflate and mix roles and ranks of executives.

The effect of such accumulation into a pair or a string of titles resembles a form of "designation inflation" or embellishment.

FWIW, another combination of both titles that has appeared is:

[ al-mudir al-3am wa kabir al-masu'uliin ]

A guide to business planning and corporate communications, written in the mid-1990s by a businessman in Dubai, has an excellent dissection and discussion of this "naming practice." That bilingual book suggests some approaches to clarifying such sometimes-bewildering title clusters in the original English, and provides equivalents in the Arabic that make clearer sense. If I can find my copy, I'd glad to post the title and publisher data or to send that data directly to any requestors.

HTH.

Regards,

Stephen H. Franke
San Pedro, Caliornia

(Khair al-umoor awsathaa)

Those translating Managing Director as (modeer aam) mix the term with General Manager.
A Director is someone who sits on the Board of Directors (maglis al idara) and the Managing Director is (al udwo al montadab).