#ceo

CEO Stephenson said the stock was going to $50/share
CFO Stevens said it was a good thing AT&T was kicked off the DOW and replaced by Apple
COO Stankey did that hilarious/mocking impression of Trump right before the 2016 election - then Trump got elected and when had to spend an extra $550M in legal expenses to get the Time Warner deal done
COO Donovan (claiming to be a good Irish Catholic boy) got caught sniffing Arnoldi's drawers.
Never the A-Team of C-Suite America.

How this company is so backwards. We got another ”people team” leadership. How many have we had in the last 6 years?? The out of touch CEO have no clue how bad it is here and no career trajectory for anyone unless you are a former GS executive or best pal with the EC.

Time to take summer vacation!

Good riddance SH

The track record of the CHRO and CEO in selecting talent is abysmal. The batting average must be less than 2 out of 10 have made it including Franks failed selection of Mike Lyons himself.
Where is the Board? Surely the Talent and Compensation Committee Chair must be witnessing this failure. Divya alone will cost the company millions.

Nice guy but poor strategic moves. Thank god it’s being cleaned up and Miss. AI gets her golden parachute before she could blow this place up any further

We did an internal poll of several hundred plus employees...

Majority of 88% say they dislike the direction of the company and the CEO is not fit for the job.

Who would have thought?

Am hearing through the grapevine that the board is seriously considering making Hans ceo again after the Dan disaster show. Anybody else hearing this?

The gist: AK wants more AI so there can be more RAs.

https://www.inc.com/chris-morris/ibm-ceo-krishna-has-a-message-for-founders-treat-ai-as-day-zero/91369085

Nike will report its full fiscal year earnings today. Analysts predict a two percent revenue decline and a 21 percent operating income drop. CEO Elliott Hill faces mounting pressure due to continuous negative sales growth. Nike's stock has fallen 34 percent this year, reaching an 11-year low. Investors are impatient despite Hill's long-term turnaround strategy.

https://sportsverse.substack.com/p/a-fateful-day-ahead-for-nike-ceo

Most CEOs are starting to become aware of this and are trying to figure out solutions. Not us, though. SAP is doubling down. Wait until we start getting charged non-subsidized rates.

The CEO/BOD - all those 'leaders' can be outsourced right now. It would save on the salaries and corporate taxes for their bloated salaries.

There are many overseas 'consulting' companies that have teams that can do the same jobs - and probably do it better, while delighting the customer and shareholders. If various technology/support groups can be outsourced - no reason why the bloated fat cats can't also be.

The shareholders win as a huge bloated chunk of change isn't allocated for the golden parachutes, but instead invested in the company itself. Don't believe the crybabies when they say 'they have to be in the US' to offer their leadership knowledge to just get their executive bonuses for slurping coffee.

Cut the fat, have some leaders with knowledge run the company.

Yes, Richard Fairbank, the founder, chairman, and CEO of Capital One Financial Corporation, is a billionaire It’s like do your job they will eventually walk you out

Capital One's CEO, Richard Fairbank, received $40 million in total compensation for 2025. His unique pay package does not include a traditional cash salary but is instead entirely performance-based, consisting primarily of performance share units and a one-time stock and cash award tied to the company's acquisition of Discover Think they really care about any of these post ! Nope

Who'd you have as CEO and expect some improvement?

When Chris Leahy became CEO it was all downhill after that. Krasny was the best leader ever at CDW.

Shell’s Wael Sawan has been briefed by the security services about looming security concerns in the UK. Shell has enhanced its leadership get out fast procedures. Top Shell economist also forecast significant economic challenges which would negatively escalate the UKs attractiveness.

Estimate when Shell changes domicile to the USA or even Dubai.

Bank marketing doesn't really lend itself to creativity, but how bad is "unwavering in care"? How can you be sure, potential customer? Because we said so ourselves! Take our word for it in these paid advertisements, just please don't ask any current customers! (Or, for that matter, employees. They are leaving like rats off a sinking ship. Truist couldn't even find an internal candidate to be the next CEO, SMH.)

The only thing worse may be those id--tic television ads with the dudes playing golf. (Banks: please stop with the golf, you are not differentiating yourself from other banks; in fact, the opposite is happening.) Angled golf club shafts, kooky! People will love that! Did a human being actually think of this or have they just turned everything over to AI at this point? Truly, the only smart marketing move Truist ever made was naming rights for the Braves stadium, so let's give credit where it's due. Everything after that has been an insult to viewers -- and investors.

Enrique = 44%

Plenty of layoff CEOs out there and their numbers aren’t this low.

Saks global was so toxic we became a new company..it still won't hide that we cheat those we do business with.often.
We didn't pay over 4 billion dollars so far to our creditors..Yet CEO Raemdonck has made over 75 million .
Some system we have in this country. We are now owned by companies with billions in assets yet made all these companies that trusted us suffer bad.

I was performing, loyal and zero drama. I kept my head down, did my work and made great money for CDW. You? You are not performing, you are not keeping your head down, and you are bleeding cash for CDW. You are a disaster who ruins lives and an industry laughing-stock. You should fire yourself.

The CEO with the worst presenting skills and personality ever is off. Apparently he leaves us in a position of strength…..

The stock is completely fu---d, which is his only job. How is this guy still employed? It’s absurd that he thinks he has any respect from any employees.

EH is the right leader to turn this ship around. Very proud of him!

..price increases, a new 52 week low stock price every day, sowing distrust among the employees, lack of leadership in the top 3 tiers, running the CFO off, sc--wing up the Firstnet. Did I miss anything? Is it even possible to perform more poorly?

Where we get to January 2027 and John hosts a Townhall where he exclaims to the small crowd of Simple Jeff Oompa Loompas...

"You've won! You did it! You did it! I knew you would! I just knew you would! Oh, forgive me for putting you through this. Please, forgive me."

And then the room turns into an elevator that shoots out of the top of the building and sores above downtown Dallas as it heads to the future site of the Plano HQ.

CEO , please work hard to push it below 40 ..LOL

You can Google it I'm not posting a link.

I got a crack out of the article. CEOs should tell us more about how they're moving jobs overseas, decimating the workforce with AI, while accepting larger and larger bonuses.

• A significant shift in sentiment has made the job of running a company tougher, with CEOs complaining they are overworked, overstressed and subjected to endless scrutiny.
  The rise of political populism and volatile shifts in trade policy have contributed to the decline in admiration for CEOs, with polls showing they are no longer as admired as they once were.*

Centered CEO is an American sellout paid puppet. This is why we are looking for jobs.

Hundreds of people axed in Kalamazoo, no WARN filing. Leadership has tanked the stock price and its in the toilet. A complete and utter disaster! CEO and CFO lied about Librela numbers and are being sued. Stay away from this company, more layoffs happening in Jun/July 2026.

Can you name a single company with a more embarrassing CEO? Just one?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ceo-pay-2025-d2885ea3

[Didn't quote entire article text, just extracted AK's info. from the interactive table in the article].

AK ranks 34th out of 392 CEOs on the list:
Total pay: $38M
Pay Change: +51.1%
1-Year Return: 38%
Median Employee Pay: $49,630

Waiting with bated breath for my 51% raise this year!

https://www.quiverquant.com/news/Kyndryl+Holdings%2C+Inc.+%28%24KD%29+Chairman+and+CEO+2026+Pay+Revealed

I hear through the grapevine of more, and very significant, layoffs today. I worked at this once great company for a good number of years, until the PE firms and an incompetent CEO started driving it into the ground. It’s a real shame and I truly hope the recently-announced replacement CEO can turn the company around. I feel bad for tne many people who have lost their jobs today.

Zero logic internallyI Numbers reported are fraudulent. CFO just resigned. Same as MCI / WorldCom demise. Stink driving this company into bankruptcy faster than he will be able to complete his ridiculous HQ homage. MBA programs already cite him as the worst CEO in history!

The CEO left suddenly, seemingly without explanation, and then was very quickly replaced but no formal announcement to internal business partners. What in the world is going on over there?

John Stankey became CEO on July 1, 2020.

AT&T stock then: $23.40
AT&T stock today: $22.01

Nearly 6 years later, the stock has delivered a -5.9% total return, or about -1% annually.

Adjusted for inflation, the stock is effectively worth about $17.60 today, implying a ~25% loss over his tenure.

Six years of “leadership”.
Negative returns.
Ongoing talent loss.
Rock bottom morale.
Bottom of the barrel rankings in culture, best places to work, AI readiness, talent, etc.

At some point, you stop arguing about intent and start looking at outcomes. This guy S U C K S !!!

We have to separate fact from opinion.
SF was CFO of WP when FIS acquired WP. She was appointed COO with a primary responsibility of integration of WP and FIS. Integration was so bad FIS paid an additional 950 million in 2022 for acquisition and integration costs. They settled a lawsuit for 210 million associated with the acquisition of WP. Would we agree SF did not properly integrate the two companies?

Next, she is designated as Chief Administrative Officer 2021 to 2022. Primary responsibility included transformation, M&A, and technology. I think all of FIS/WP employees would agree this didn’t happen.

Her reward, appointment as CEO of a Fortune 500 company with experience of only accounting and finance. Company Stock price Dec 16, 2022 was 69.17. Today, it is 37.47. This what 20+ million a year in CEO comp for SF earns you.

When will the firings end? It isn’t ending soon. As part of the agreement with DE Shaw, FIS agreed to 400 million in cost savings. To avoid major disruption in the business and the Warn Act, FIS is laying off people over a three year period.

Follow the money, DE Shaw share sales in subsequent FIS announcements post Dec 2022. They forced these changes. FIS BOD appointments and historical relationships with DE Shaw, Janu Partners and SF. What backroom deals between Goldstein, Ernst and DE Shaw were agreed?

Make it make sense. 20+m a year, stock price free fall, increase in C Suite personnel compared to legacy FIS, advisor fees so high CFO commented on it, nepotism hires with Performance Officer, CAO, HR. What has this C-suite and SF accomplished?

This is the same CEO that created Future Foreward, implemented all these cost savings with promised payouts, delayed payouts, divided up payout over two years and then let people go before payment. This is the FIS culture. A CFO that hates Jacksonville and US culture. A failed CAO from Hertz because they were friends in Cincinnati. BT was her best friend at WP with no accomplishments at FIS. BT is an over priced puppet. Sad part, entire company run by McKinsey.

FIS got what it deserved. SF set out to do what she promised, fire all legacy FIS and the board has done nothing.

It’s difficult to see employees lose their jobs while executive compensation remains so high. According to public filings, CEO compensation was approximately $18 million. Many affected employees gave years of service to the company, and the contrast between layoffs and executive pay raises legitimate questions about priorities

Who wants to submit them to the Guinness book of WR? How can you destroy 2 top 10 banks? Unreal!

Many people outside the oil industry believe oil prices will decline rapidly once the Strait reopens and remain low in the coming years. However, the CEO of global oil giant Shell (NYSE:SHEL) has a different view. He expects oil prices to continue rising long after the war ends.

Ideas? What happens to Shell’s 8 year reserve life?

Takis is probably one of the best known fintech talent. Grew JPM from 7 people to 15K people & 20 billion revenue run-rate. Probably the best we could hope for. Not sure why Mike Lyons got the CEO role in the first place — he clearly has no clue about the payment industry. He’s a banker…