There was almost exactly a year between Cyril Abiteboul and Marcin Budkowski being announced as leaving Alpine. The two statements were 367 days apart, and on the surface they would hint at a concerning trend. It certainly doesn’t point to stability when you see two senior managers leaving with such regularity, but these were not team members that Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi hired. Rossi himself replaced Abiteboul – who had been set for the CEO role originally – and then Budkowski departed at the end of his first full year in the job. It would be a lot easier to sit here and explain why it might actually not be such a bad sign that there has been such disruption if it wasn’t for the...
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