5 Biggest Broadcom, VMware, Symantec Executive Exits In 2025
https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/2025/5-biggest-broadcom-vmware-symantec-executive-exits-in-2025
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Hock Tan ruined the best job I ever had when he bought Symantec, all he cares about is sustaining a specific share value for long enough to cash out big, when he leaves the whole house of cards will come down.
Symantec enterprise division is a bull-cr-p unit. No idea why Broadcom bought it. I was with the company for a sh-t load of 13 years (the old Symantec when it was big). I saw the org going from 7 billion to a mere few millions business unit called as SED. Back in 2023 they made a QA engineer called Joe Chen the head of the unit reporting to rob grear. They both merrily went to Google tech and other sales conferences, ate and drank off a sh-t load of company money. Could not grow the tech or the sales of the org. By the end of 2023 jock came around and said your BU is below par. And the two went on a layoff spree. Eventually both of those cartoons were let go.
Heightened anxiety swept through the company yesterday when key executives announced simultaneous departures. Outgoing CEO Janet Miller cited "philosophical differences" with the board. Chief Financial Officer Mark Davis followed suit, submitting his resignation effective immediately. Key investors expressed shock at the sudden leadership vacuum. Several executive committee members are expected to leave next week. Ultimately, this exodus threatens the company's stability during its critical fourth quarter. Corporate spokesperson Emma Wilson declined detailed comment on these developments. Knowledge of these departures sent stock prices tumbling by market close. Sources close to leadership suggest more resignations may follow.
Executive?
Hardly. Some of them are just middle management. I know them personally. Article is misleading
Actually, 2 of the 5 covered in the article state no next gig/company, and the other 3 are going to no-name silly little companies compared to the VMware, Symantec, or Broadcom giants from where they came. Many of these departures are based on changes to sales models toward partners/aggregators, as they were sales or strategy positions. These listed execs helped drive companies that went so financially bankrupt they had to be bought by big bad Broadcom to even survive or profit - so objectively, they each kinda sukk and have no real record of "success" at all. b-bye to them.
Poor poor executives.
How will they survive?
Oh yea, by being total a holes.
Hope Hock fires them all.
In Hock we trust
I love the exit stories by the dear and great leaders in the article. It's sad. Very compelling and touching exit stories. They racked up millions of dollars in RSUs while stack ranking and laying off you off.
I don't want to 'salty' here. But, they always have seem to have a new gig to move into after exit. What do you think?