A few days earlier, on Sept 29, Comcast said that its sitting CEO Brian Roberts will be joined by Michael Cavanagh, former president, in January. (The arrangement is being read as part of a succession plan.) And at Oracle a week before, ex-CEO Safra Catz moved into the vice-chair role, and was replaced by Clay Magouyrk, former head of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and Mike Sicilia, who previously ran Oracle Industries.
The percentage of companies led by co-CEOs hasn't changed much over the past five years, data firm Equilar found. It hovers around 1.2% of the Russell 3000 index, a broad measure of the US stock market. Yet more companies could adopt this structure, even temporarily, as forces like AI create a dizzying pace of change for leaders and prompt companies to rethink operations.