New Cowen Partners Research Identifies a Looming Collapse in Corporate America’s Executive Pipeline, With Peak Retirements Arriving Between 2029 and 2034

New Cowen Partners Research Identifies a Looming Collapse in Corporate America’s Executive Pipeline, With Peak Retirements Arriving Between 2029 and 2034

An original analysis of S&P 500 proxy filings finds that 42% of CEOs are already within five years of retirement, and that the successor bench is too thin to replace them. Cowen Partners Executive Search, one of the nation’s leading retained executive search firms, released The Leadership Inflection Point, an original research report finding that corporate America is entering the largest executive succession event in modern history, with the pea…