There was a surprising uptick in sudden departures of more than a dozen executives leaving with very short notice or in some instances no notice at all. In certain instances such as BuzzFeed, which recently announced that it was shutting down its BuzzFeed news operation to refocus on HuffPost, the departure of the COO makes sense. However we also saw half a dozen CEOs depart suddenly and in the case of Waste Connections (WCN), the departure was announced a day after the CEO had already left.
Welcome to edition 38 of C-Suite Transitions, a weekly series on InsideArbitrage that tracks appointments and departures at publicly traded companies during the prior week. We highlight five appointments and departures each week by picking the largest companies from the full list of management changes.