CRO to exit. What next?
What does it mean for employees if CRO of a listed company sold major chunk of their shares and is looking to exit?
Should we start looking for new gigs?
Notable executive departures disclosed in the past week include:
Both Co-CEOs of Sprinklr (NYSE: CXM — $1.92 billion) “mutually agreed” to depart after five months and fifteen years, respectively; they were replaced by an outside candidate who was previously CEO of Vonage. In February, the company’s Chief Revenue Officer “stepped down” after a little over one year. The company is down ~65% since its June 2021 IPO.
CFO of Openlane (NYSE: KAR — $2.11 billion), formerly KAR Auction Services, “will resign from the company effective March 1, 2025 to pursue another opportunity closer to family” after two years.
CEO of Sun Communities (NYSE: SUI — $15.6 billion) “has informed the board of his intention to retire in 2025” after 32 years and the board has “established a CEO Succession Planning Committee.” In September 2024, Blue Orca Capital called the company “a mess of egregious executive behavior” and found that Sun’s CEO “received an undisclosed $4 million loan from the family of a supposedly independent Director who sits on the Audit Committee” and also separately “admitted borrowing $700K from a director whose law firm also serves as [Sun’s] general counsel.”
Chief Operating Officer of DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC — $3.92 billion) “will be exiting the company” after nearly two years. The company’s General Counsel also departed in March and the company’s former CEO stepped down in December 2023.
Chief Commercial Officer of QuidelOrtho Corp (NASDAQ: QDEL — $2.94 billion) was “terminated” after two and a half years along with the company’s Chief Operating Officer who was “terminated” after four years. In February, the company’s CEO was also “terminated” after fifteen years.
Chief Accounting Officer of Hippo Holdings (NYSE: HIPO — $701 million) “entered into a separation agreement” after a little over three years. In October, the company’s Chief Revenue Officer also departed after four years. In March 2023, the company replaced Ernst & Young as its a
What does it mean for employees if CRO of a listed company sold major chunk of their shares and is looking to exit?
Should we start looking for new gigs?
After a confirmed research, following resignations are happening at Unacademy, resulting in a massive instability in the organisation
CHRO and CMO at Freshworks have been shown the door. Employees were informed last evening. Surprised it's not out yet in public yet.
I have see many lists of places to work at. Let’s create a list of companies not to work at. Please post the company name and the experience of working their.
There are multiple VPs and Directors leaving in parallel. Is this a mass exodus of senior leadership any indication of the state of the company?