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Topic covering corporate leadership transitions, including CEO and CFO departures, succession planning, and interim or external appointments.
Starbucks has denied the Financial Times report that it worked with advisors on a Chipotle takeover; Chipotle has declined to comment. Two of the three finance executives in Chipotle's 2024 succession plan have since left, so any reunion with Brian Niccol would be partial.
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Chevron will make CFO Eimear Bonner president of oil, products and gas on Jan. 1, 2027, handing the finance job to new-energies chief Jeff Gustavson. The move gives Bonner the core business while Chevron declines to say whether it is picking a successor to CEO Mike Wirth.
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Apple CEO John Ternus works hands-on in the design studio several times a week, Bloomberg reports, against Tim Cook's roughly monthly visits. With no chief design officer search underway, Apple's former hardware chief now has the final say on its software interfaces too.
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Ryan Roslansky, who took LinkedIn from 700 million to 1.3 billion members, will leave Microsoft at the end of 2026, citing his family's ties to the Bay Area. Nadella will split the Microsoft 365 and Copilot role among executives already in place.
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Gary Wingrove became KPMG's global chairman and CEO on October 1, taking charge of more than 276,000 staff in legally separate member firms. His task is to move those firms together on AI, a growth bet that is also automating the junior work that feeds the partner pipeline.
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Daewoo E&C's new chief executive, Lee Kang-seok, pledged to choose projects more selectively and repair the balance sheet as he took office. The same address floated expansion and acquisitions, so his first order wins will show which half of the plan he funds.
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Nidec's auditor PwC Japan issued a disclaimer of opinion on its annual accounts, presented two days after CEO Mitsuya Kishida was replaced by Michio Kaida. Holders are now pricing a stock on figures its own auditor will not stand behind, and the size of the writedown is still unconfirmed.
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MongoDB shares fell as much as 27% on Monday after Meta hired its chief executive, CJ Desai, to lead a new enterprise AI platform. The move gives software boards a live succession case, though one departure is too little to call a pattern.
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Adobe's freemium creative base passed 100 million users, up more than 70 per cent, and management guided total ARR growth to 10.2 per cent for the year while third-quarter revenue grew 13 per cent.
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Berkshire put $39.4bn into equities in the first half of 2026 against $7.1bn a year earlier. On September 18 the chairmanship passed to Howard Buffett, whose remit his father defined as guarding the culture.
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Ron Johnson ran merchandising at Target before Steve Jobs hired him to build Apple's stores. His new book describes a customer encounter staged by a merchant, with inventory management as one job on a list of ten.
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Larry Ellison has skipped Oracle's earnings calls this year and is off next month's keynote billing. The product his successors have to explain is separated EU regions and borrowed data centre capacity.
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KB Financial Group earned a record 5.843 trillion won last year and sits behind a rival in each of its five main business lines. Its nomination committee has put a division head, Lee Jae-keun, forward as chairman.
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Crist Kolder projects 18.3% CFO turnover across 665 large-cap companies in 2026, the most since 2020. The more telling number is the average age of the new appointees: 48, down from 52.
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